Author: Lirim Neziroski
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Image Analysis – Part 2
Image analysis is the process of creating meaning out of an image. The viewer examines components of the image – such as subject, color, placement – and makes a conclusion about the “dominant impression” or overall idea or mood the image is portraying. In my previous post, I showed how an image can be analyzed…
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Image Analysis – Part 1
Image analysis is the process of creating meaning out of an image. The viewer examines components of the image – such as subject, color, placement – and makes a conclusion about the “dominant impression” or overall idea or mood the image is portraying. I taught image analysis in my writing courses, and students really enjoyed…
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Guest Blog: Marietta Poshi “Strategies for Online Education”
With the recent global pandemic, higher education saw a sudden shift to online teaching and learning in all grade levels from Kindergarten to graduate and professional schools. We were no longer concerned about teaching platforms, or having the adequate training for staff and faculty to take on the new role as virtual educators, but rather…
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Avoiding Endings in Byron’s Don Juan
In my Ph.D. program, I wrote an essay about Lord Byron’s Don Juan. (I also wrote about Don Juan as part of my dissertation on 19th-century Romantic drama and the Victorian theater – click on the link to read it.) In the essay, I cited Guinn Batten’s ideas about avoiding endings to analyze Byron’s writing…
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Checklists for Education
In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawandi (surgeon, writer, and public health researcher) describes how checklists have improved safety and success in airplane flights, building construction, and medicine. Checklists have proved useful in completing both simple tasks and also complex processes. In this post, I describe the power of the checklist, and I brainstorm how checklists…
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