Nick Miller
Teaching Middle-Grades Fiction at the University Level
A question I was asked a few weeks ago got me thinking back to a course I taught in the spring, and my decision to include a...
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Nick Miller
- Dec 17, 2020
- 4 min
Reflections on Course Evaluations: Fall 2020
Course evaluations are strange. It has been well-documented that they do not reflect student learning, and that they are often biased...
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Nick Miller
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Building a Digital Commonplace Book Project
With the fall semester behind me, I am beginning to look ahead to new courses I will be teaching in the spring. One of those courses, a...
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Nick Miller
- Dec 1, 2020
- 1 min
New Contribution to The Middle Spaces is Now Live!
I am excited to announce that I have another post up on The Middle Spaces today, which marks my fifth time contributing a long-form essay...
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Nick Miller
- Nov 23, 2020
- 5 min
The Case for Teaching Superhero Comics via Dazzler
A few months ago, my friend and editor Osvaldo Oyola challenged me to write about my experience introducing superhero comics to students...
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Nick Miller
- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion via Experiential Learning
For the annual Governor’s Teaching Fellows program this year, I have been designing a course titled "Valdosta and the Legacies of Jim...
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Nick Miller
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Pedagogical Value of Creating a Course Playlist
I have been in the process of designing a new version of World Literature II here at Valdosta State University—a course that weirdly...
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Nick Miller
- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Teaching Writing by Teaching Students to Notice Better
This past week, one of my first-ever college students touched base with me as they prepared to submit their dissertation. It has been ten...
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Nick Miller
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
Social Annotation and Community Building
Although I began using social annotation practices before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I have found myself increasingly relying on Perusall...
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Nick Miller
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
Teaching Nina Simone
As I prepare to teach my American Literature II course next semester, I have been returning to Nina Simone's "Why? (The King of Love is...
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