Episode 022 - Humberto Garcia

In this episode, we interview Humberto Garcia, associate professor of English at the University of California at Merced. Several years ago while teaching at Vanderbilt, Garcia started experimenting with blogs in his teaching, having students write short blog posts on a common course blog in lieu of the usual reading response papers. Humberto kept experimenting with blogs every semester, trying out creative new ways to use them both outside of class and during class. In this interview, Humberto talks about his reasons for teaching with blogs, as well as specific strategies he has used over time to integrate out-of-class and in-class learning through blogs. And he describes his experiments with classroom response systems as a way to incorporate student blogging in larger classes. Links: • Humberto Garcia's faculty page at UC-Merced, http://ssha.ucmerced.edu/content/humberto-garcia • English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century course blog, https://english102literaturesurvey.wordpress.com/ • Transnational Encounters with Islam in 18th and 19th Century British Literature course blog, https://transnationalencounterswithislam.wordpress.com/ • William Blake and Enlightenment Media course blog, https://williamblakeandenlightenmentmedia.wordpress.com/ • British Romanticism and India course blog, https://britishromanticismandindia.wordpress.com/