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QR Codes in the Classroom: Thinking Inside the Square

<p><span><span>According to some <annotation class="annotation-title" data-summary title="QR Code Statistics 2020: Up-to-Date Numbers on Global QR Code Users, SCANOVA, https://scanova.io/blog/qr-code-statistics/ (includes comparison data to 2019) (last visited July 6, 2020) .">experts</annotation>, 2020 will be the year of the QR code. Remember QR codes? They were <a>interesting</a>&nbsp;for a while but also annoying because you needed an app to scan them.

Always Connect: How Studying Creative Writing Helped Me Become A Better Legal Writing Professor

<p><span><span>On the day of my first graduate creative-writing workshop, my professor walked into class with a stack of papers in hand. All twelve of us grew quiet; the week before, he’d brought a similarly sized stack that had turned out to contain copies of the original first page of a story my classmate had turned in as a revision. My professor had brought the original to show how it was possible to revise the life out of a story, and he methodically worked through the original first page as compared to the new one to make his point.

From the Dojo to the Classroom: Applying Martial Arts Coaching Skills to Teaching Legal Writing

<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When it comes to martial arts, I’m definitely a late bloomer. My husband convinced me to try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (“BJJ”) during my first year of teaching legal writing at Pepperdine, when I was just shy of my thirty-ninth birthday. I was hesitant, having no prior martial arts experience; he told me it was a good way to get in shape (leaving out the part about rolling around on the ground trying to choke people).