Teaching students to be writers
A writer is someone who writes I used to think that one either was or was not a writer. In other words, one was gifted with a muse, or...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
And I thought I could blog during a pandemic...
When the pandemic first hit and everything moved to remote teaching, I remember thinking that I would have a lot to blog about. Suddenly...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Dec 30, 2019
- 2 min
Concept maps as a way to wrap up the semester
At the end of Typology this past fall, I had students do a concept map, and based on my experience with that, I think it'll be my new...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Dec 30, 2019
- 3 min
Running a research study in the classroom: a belated final report
Well, as is perhaps obvious from the lack of updates after week 6, things got rather busy in the last half of the Spring semester. But,...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Apr 16, 2019
- 6 min
The professor as part-time "therapist"
This is the time of year when I keep a steady supply of chocolate and tissues in my office, because student meetings often turn into some...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Feb 22, 2019
- 3 min
Running a research study in the classroom: week 6 report
We're now at the end of week 6, and things are ramping up and progressing well, though we hit a couple of small snags along the way. IRB...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Jan 30, 2019
- 4 min
Running a research study in the classroom: week 3 report
This semester I'm teaching Phonetics & Phonology II, a third year class at CMU. I've taught this course before (3 times, in fact!) but...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Nov 2, 2018
- 8 min
Large class, small community
Yesterday I was a presenter for the "Lightning Talk" session at the 2018 CMU Teaching & Learning Summit. The format was akin to 'speed...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Oct 29, 2018
- 5 min
Talking about the Tree of Life shooting in class
Today I will talk about the shooting that happened at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. What follows is what I'm planning to...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Oct 12, 2018
- 6 min
Learning student names: why & how
I teach a large introductory linguistics class, called Nature of Language (NoL). It's capped at 120, and after the first couple weeks of...
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Christina Bjorndahl
- Sep 27, 2018
- 6 min
Animals in Academia
The following is the first part of the Acknowledgments of my dissertation. One night when I was putting my then 3-year old son,...
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