Author Archives: Shobha Avadhani

This is an essay that was created for the “Interrogating Feminism(s)” session of the Feminism x EAP slow conference, 9th – 15th May 2024. What does it mean to be a feminist educator when our lives are immersed in data? This is the broad question I am interested in, and I want to share withContinue reading “Feminist pedagogy and the technological present: Bringing back the Goddess”

I think that the ONL course has left me with more questions than answers, but it definitely has provided much food for thought. For one thing, it has raised in my mind the need to think very consciously and critically about how to create a learning community online. It is not just a matter ofContinue reading “The course is over. Now what?”

There were two questions we asked in our PBL group as we discussed the topic of blended learning. The first was how we could design face-to-face and online activities in a blended learning environment so that they are congruent. The second was about the place of affect in blended learning. I share here two experiencesContinue reading “Blending, congruence, and affect”

The question of what it means to form a community is one that is sometimes taken for granted when it comes to learning spaces and experiences, but in a public speaking course that I teach, it has been a central question. In this post, I talk about how that question has been addressed, and IContinue reading “Communities and connections”

This semester has been something of a trainwreck. The pandemic has slammed into us and knocked us sideways. As bad as I think things have been for me, I am aware that for many it has been far, far worse. But this post is not about the virus per se. Nor is it about lookingContinue reading “Embracing open: the case of COVID-19”

In this post I want to engage with the idea of what it means to participate online, and to unpack the notion of digital literacies. Most media scholars and quite a number of educators are familiar with the work of Henry Jenkins (2006), who coined the term “participatory culture” in relation to the affordances ofContinue reading “A critical perspective on online participation and digital literacies”

It is always exciting to enter a new learning community – or at least, to enter what will become a learning community through the efforts of its members to engage with one another and with the material. This week we connected online with the ONL community as well as the PBL group (aside: why doesContinue reading “On connecting: A first reflection”