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Lately my expectations of what I am capable of doing are meeting the reality that I am capable. It’s an unexpected outcome of growing older and using my analytical skills. I just finished teaching for the spring 2022 semester, and I already miss my students. But, I also miss my writing self. I have not…
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It’s week thirteen of my fifteen-week semester as an English teacher at a community college. This term I taught a full load, and I am currently at the mental place where I start listening to one song or album on repeat while I evaluate student work to help me focus, something sad enough to help…
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OER materials make me incredibly happy–free educational materials that you can use, re-use, remix, and re-distribute? I love so many things about Open Source materials, which is one reason why I recently accepted a job offer at the University of New Mexico. I will soon shift from being an English teacher at CNM to an…
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My most helpful poem reader, Dana Salvador, crossed out all the to-be verbs from the first batch of poems I sent to my writing group, ever. She didn’t judge me. She asked me for more descriptions. Even though I had yearned to write and publish poems, I feared my previous experience of my self-perceived failures,…
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This upcoming week, I am meeting with my college’s Distance Learning department to develop a revision plan for our composition courses’ Open Educational Resource to fix some technical issues. Not sure what an Open Educational Resource is? That’s okay. This video explains: While in theory, the idea of Open Education Resources is beautiful, gorgeous, and…
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When I was a kid, I thought my mother ruled the planet, so much so that I believed her thoughts and feelings were more important than my own. This pull between my childhood self and the woman who would like to emerge from my childhood organizes and structures the conflict in my book Life in…
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Jennifer Jordan 