When my wife and I decided to team-teach this semester, we were
mindful of several challenges: keeping the class from turning
into a marital soap opera, modeling for students not only
divergent academic perspectives, but how those perspectives
connect (see this helpful Tomorrow’s Professor post), and
keeping the focus on the class on the Honors program learning
objectives. The biggest challenge, at least at first, seemed to
be about technology and pedagogy: How would we balance her
preference for papers and exams with my own interest in a
variety of born-digital assignments? It turns out that this has
been less of a problem than we expected. In part, this is about
sequencing. My wikified class notes assignment lends itself well
to an exam, so that fit. And a regular blogging assignment helps
generate lots of ideas for papers, so that was ok, too. We also
have quickly found common ground over Xtranormal, the easy-to-
use animation software that was trendy about a year-and-a-half
ago. (My favorite.) Xtranormal u