It’s not too soon to start thinking about hosting an issue of the Teaching Carnival for the 2009-2010 academic year, which will be our fourth (!) year of publishing.

Teaching Carnival: A semi-weekly edited collection of the best web-based writings on pedagogy.

What hosting involves:

• Read widely in academic blogs, looking for blog posts about teaching in higher education.
• Write a detailed entry on your blog, annotating and tying together the posts that you’ve found.
• Publish!

Peruse the previous issue of Teaching Carnival for examples.

Please leave a comment below if you want to give it a shot.

Teaching Carnival 3.5 is now online, courtesy of David Parry.

Next week, Teaching Carnival 3.6 will be hosted by Miriam Jones.

Update on 4 May, 2009: Issue 3.6 will be hosted by Jeremy Boggs on or around 11 May.

Teaching Carnival 3.4 is now online, courtesy of Chuck Tryon.

In two weeks, David Parry will host 3.5 at academHack.

Teaching Carnival 3.3 is now online, courtesy of Alan Benson.

On 23 March, 2009 Chuck Tryon will host 3.4 at The Chutry Experiment.

Definitions

Teaching Carnival: “[A] periodic collection of blogposts to do with higher education” (Miriam Jones).

Blog carnival: “[A] type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic” (Wikipedia).

Instructions

You can easily have one of your blog posts about teaching in higher education included in an issue of the teaching carnival by doing any or all of the following:

1. Email the next host directly (see list below) with the address to the permalink of your blog post, and/or
2. Tag your post in Delicious with teaching-carnival, and/or
3. Tag your post with Technorati tags.

Publishing schedule

• Feb 9: Jason B. Jones
• Feb 23: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
• Mar 9: Alan Benson
• Mar 23: Chuck Tryon
• Apr 13: Dave Parry
• Apr 27: Miriam Jones
• May 11: Jeremy Boggs
• May 25: Alex Reid
• ???: George H. Williams

…is available at The Salt-Box.

The next installment will be hosted at Mo Co Zone.

We need hosts for the carnivals that are scheduled after March 15, 2007. Don’t be shy!

…can be found at RevisionSpiral.

The Salt-Box will host #21 on March 1, 2007. Tag your posts, or email jbj at wordherders dot net.

We need hosts for the carnivals that are scheduled after March 15, 2007. Step right up!

…has been scribbled right here.

RevisionSpiral will host #20 on February 15, 2007. Tag your posts, or email liz dot kleinfeld at rrcc dot edu.

Scribblingwoman will be hosting the first Teaching Carnival of the new year. We need more hosts! The proposed dates are as follows:

• Feb 15: hosted by revisionspiral
• Mar 1: Hosted by The Salt-Box
• Mar 15: Hosted by Mocozone
• Apr 1
• Apr 15
• May 1
• May 15
• Jun 1

Speak up if you’d like to host!

…has appeared at Silver in SF.

The next installment will be published chez Xoom on December 15.