Carly Finseth, Ph.D.

Educational innovations, games-based learning, multi-passionate career coaching. Author of Teach Like a Gamer / Coding for Communicators |

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

@DrBritWilliams Look around and realize you're likely the only one in the room worried about it. Most of your colleagues will miss their deadlines. Give yourself the grace to adjust, if need be. Also remind yourself: You got this!

[Meghan Duffy @duffy_ma]

I pretty much always need to do wholesale rearranging of the paragraphs/ideas in things I write. It's super common that, about halfway through something, I'm like "oh, *this* is what should be the first paragraph". I'm curious how common this is for other folks?

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

@jhfrith Congratulations!

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

@khirstenlscott I love this!

[Dr. Khirsten L. Scott @khirstenlscott]

Last term, I taught my first grad seminar.

My gift to each student was a book (related to their research) published by/about black woman!

Several of them have since then messaged me to share the joy experienced through reading the texts.

My heart continues to smile.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

shout out to everybody who fell asleep on the couch & woke up just in time

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

Same. I’ve found that narrative-based feedback is much more effective for building relationships, as well as helping students practice and “fail” without shaming or punishment. It builds trust and intrinsic motivation.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

the end of the year has me reflecting on things i take for granted & in that spirit i wanna say shout out to wikipedia sure it's not perfect but where else can you start reading about black bean guacamole & 15min later be directed to reading about the fall of the byzantine empire

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

Set realistic writer goals for 2019! Some suggestions:
• write words you're proud of!
• get some sleep for goodness sake
• be a convincing human?? instead of a pile of coffee and typos in a trench coat
• learn where commas even go
• ok haha some of these aren't realistic

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

@rhetoricalmonk Some might tweet under pseudonyms, too.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

RULES FOR BORROWING MY BOOKS
• keep in perfect condition
• also you better love it
• like wholly love it im warning you
• treat it like gold
• ok but the empty spot on my shelf makes me anxious
• have you finished yet??
• you know what just...give it...give it back

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

A writer who showed up to my meetup today said “a problem that a character can walk away from, is a book a reader can walk away from.”

I cannot stop thinking about this.

[Dan Martin @danmartin_7]

I'm reading these complaints abt having to grade final papers at the end of the semester & I'm over here evaluating student website resource projects & watching videos they made abt multimodality like it's Netflix. This doesnt have to be dreadful. It's all abt the assignments.

[Thoughts of Dog @dog_feelings]

the human seems distracted. so i put my paw on their knee. and now they know. that whatever it is. we’re in it together

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

I like copyright. It feeds and houses me. It doesn't need to feed and house my great grandchildren, though.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

shout out to all the graduate student teaching assistants finishing up the semester who aren't paid enough & who don't get the benefits they deserve & who are given oversized workloads but who give every ounce of intellectual energy to their students anyway yall are the real mvps

[Carly Finseth, Ph.D. @drcarlyfin]

@krwedemeyer I wanted more credentials to support my freelance business. Then, I went on for my Ph.D. because I fell in love with teaching.