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Using Icebreakers to Build Community

Our guest blogger for February is lecturer Laura Waldrep. Laura has been teaching in the FYWP since 2012, and she is a graduate of NC State’s...

The Myth of the Online Classroom

January’s guest blogger is Meredith Dangel. Meredith has been a Lecturer in the First-Year Writing Program for ten years and has taught in face-to-face, hybrid,...

Thinglink Overview and Uses

Have you ever wanted to make a photo interactive? A great way to make your online classroom more applied and interactive is through Thinglink (Davis,...

Organizing Group Work in Google Apps

NCSU students report that one of the ways faculty could improve online courses is through building in more student-­student activities (DELTA, 2015). While group work can...

Advice on Planning Your Course

As you’re planning your course, please make sure that you first review the First-Year Writing Program’s Course Policies and Syllabus Requirements. You can find those...