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    Christina Bjorndahl
    • Oct 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    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 14, 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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    Concept maps as a way to wrap up the semester
    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 23, 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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    Talking about the Tree of Life shooting in class
    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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