MERLOT Materials

This cheat sheet explains how crafting a strategic teaching-focused CV works alongside your teaching portfolio.

Teaching observations are crucial for our development as teachers, and they are also an important form of departmental... see more

Rhetorically savvy course descriptions, because they speak to multiple audiences, stand as a demonstration of your... see more

Proposing lower-division courses – for instance, general education courses and electives – offers faculty a way to design... see more

Open Educational Resources (OERs) provide an excellent way for faculty to publish and circulate the innovative,... see more

The Creativity Matrix is a tool for students to define creativity on their own terms. It encourages them to articulate... see more

This active learning activity tasks students with both peer reviewing and revising essay introductions. In small groups,... see more

As a digital humanities tool, corpus analysis allows students to visually map language use. Adopted as a tool for... see more

This activity, using the social annotation tool Hypothesis, encourages students to become more attentive readers and... see more

In this activity, students remediate content originally published as a written text into an image or graphic for a social... see more

This handout or quick-reference guide recaps the purpose of peer review and provides a series of guiding questions that... see more

This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and... see more

This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the difference between primary and secondary sources.

This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the genre of the annotated bibliography and includes a... see more

This handout or quick-reference guide introduces students to the genre of the humanities research proposal and its key... see more

This handout or quick-reference guide defines multimodality and the five modes of communication (linguistic, visual,... see more

I created this resource to help students in my ENG-W171: Projects in Digital Literacy and Composition visualize at a... see more

For this assignment, students imagine that they have been hired as graphic designers for a university press. Their first... see more

Creativity, as a transferrable competency, is career agnostic. Now more than ever, career readiness means empowering... see more