So it turns out that when most of us aren't teaching, most of us aren't blogging about teaching either. But still, after scouring the internets, waiting for del.icio.us and technorati to get caught up, and checking in on the usual suspects, I think I've managed to cobble together a nice little sampler of pedagogical delectations to please your readerly palate. Of course I've missed dozens of good posts, so in the interest of completeness (and correcting my obvious English Department bias) please send me more links.

So without further adieu, let's start by checking in with those who are actually teaching right now rather than worrying about whether they're properly frittering away a summer break:

lucyrain offers some summer session snapshots.

Steven D. Krause tells us about his summer course thus far.

bdegenaro begins a summer course.

Badger on (un?)reasonable workloads.

Others have still been blogging about end of the year issues, like the inevitable plagiarism, cheating and other academic integrity problems. Take, for example:

Alex Halavais on cheating good.

Geeky Mom on cheating with technology.

Fumbling towards Geekdom thinks students are getting the message about plagiarism.

While Schenedtady Synecdoche asks us to respect student writing as intellectual property, and also considers one case of outing student plagiarists.

Inevitably, the end of the year creates some bone-headed communiques from students, to which we can rarely respond as we'd like. Except on blogs:

From undine.

From Ancrene Wiseass. And also this.

A correspondence with Angry Prof:

lucyrain gets the stink-eye for this.

And Elouise Oyzon offers a quick note to self:

On the other hand, sometimes students reward us:

Silver in Seattle brags on his (amazing) students.

Mama Musings considers graduations and goodbyes.

And then, we get to hear what they think:
Jason Jones at the Salt Box prefers to delay reading his evaluations.

New Kid on the Hallway continues her ongoing lament about hers.

I couldn’t wait for mine.

And as usual, plenty defies categorization, even in the quiet hours of the summer...

Dean Dad on ‘A’ atudents.

Jenny from Working Blue thinks about last semester, next semester, and an activity based pedagogy.

Angry Prof hilariously studies the structure of office hours and its impact on student access.

Bardiac explores various ways to track grades.

Jason at The Salt-Box looks for feedback on designing more detailed assignments and grading rubrics.

Bitch PhD wonders about teaching teachers who teach writing.

La Lecturess maps the writing process onto the course design process:

Fumbling Towards Geekdom is afraid that students’ inattention to simple details about turning work in bodes ill for the state of their actual work.

Jill/txt guides students through analysis of online texts with an excellent worksheet.

Revision Spiral ponders teaching with community blogs or individual student blogs

A bon mot from academic coach.

lucyrain on bad athletic advising

Parts n pieces wonders about how demographic statistics affect our approach to the classroom.

Musey-me on advising grad students whose dissertations cause them pain.

Final reflections on the semester/year that was:

Revision Spiral reflects on a bipolar semester.

After a year on the tenure track, I try to figure out what's different.

See Jane Compute does a little post-mortem on teaching without tests.

[Updated: Broken links fixed. Let me know if you find more!]

More Updates: some posts that just shouldn't be missed:

Like Dean Dad's post on teaching faith (not the religious kind).

Coturnix turns up the mother lode of teaching posts (from three different blogs), including general teaching updates and lecture notes (for those of us who haven’t ventured into the science buildings for a decade or two) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.