I don’t know about the rest of you, but I hate the idea of a last meeting, not sure why I marked it down as such in my calendar instead of using Shawna’s neutral formula – “meeting # 3”. I really hope we continue to meet and discuss these issues as we work our way through open pedagogy! Working as a team this past semester has been really inspirational for me and one of the OP lessons I’m taking from here is that my students too will enjoy working as a group towards a joint goal, for instance designing new and lasting materials for themselves and their peers but also…

Hi everyone! I am Laura Spinu, an assistant professor in my fourth year at KBCC. My department is Communications & Performing Arts, but my own specialization somewhat departs from either of these tracks. I am a phonetician teaching speech courses, mostly to our Speech Pathology majors. Phoneticians engage in the science of speech sounds, analyzing them from various angles: articulatory (i.e. how our bodies produce speech), auditory/perceptual (how our bodies perceive speech and how our brains decode and interpret it), and – my favorite! – acoustic (the physical properties of speech sounds as they travel through a medium, typically air). There are countless ways to be creative in the delivery…

“What do I want to get out of the Open Pedagogy Fellowship This Semester?” I love this question – it always helps me clarify where I’m headed and whether my objectives are properly aligned with the course, seminar, fellowship, etc. In some cases, it helps me get on track from.. seemingly out of nowhere (to be read as “procrastination and lack of preparation”, haha!) I have got into the habit of asking it of my students every semester, and with a twist even – “In what ways do you expect to grow as a result of taking this course?” or “What do you expect will be difficult but most rewarding?”…