I scrolled by a meme on Facebook the other day. Interested in all potentially funny memes, I paused on the photo. The photo showed an illustration of a boy at a school desk looking at the teacher with sad eyes. The teacher’s hand pointed to the paper on the desk, the floaty text between the Read More…
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Strategies and Utilizing Feedback for Online Work
by Leesa Prescod “What do you mean, ‘you couldn’t find your homework?” This question often repeated itself like a broken record during my first year as a teaching fellow. Someone can’t find this. Someone can’t find that. Every other week, something always came up “missing” until we moved to remote learning. Before the switch, I’d Read More…
8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout
8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout What can you do this semester to protect your well-being and support your students? by Flower Darby “Teaching online can be time-consuming and draining, but it doesn’t have to be. Try some of these self-care strategies. Do it for yourself, and do it for your students. You can’t teach Read More…
How to ‘Read the Room in an Online Course
Teaching: How to ‘Read the Room’ in an Online Course by Beckie Supiano From the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Beckie Supiano shares readers’ suggestions for collecting nonverbal feedback from students in online courses. Great ideas for thinking about how to “read the room” in an online course.
An Example Lesson Plan
by: Amanda Rioux While the individual weekly modules for ENL 265 contain a lot of helpful reading materials, I find that students will engage with the key concepts more if I provide supplemental materials. One way I do this is through “mini presentations” which I conduct during Zoom meets.
Students Say Their Workload Increased During the Pandemic. Has It?
In Students Say Their Workload Increased During the Pandemic. Has it?, Beth McMurtie (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed) discusses the workload conundrum in the shift to remote learning: students say their workload has increased; faculty say they have scaled back. She offers a number of ways to think about this discrepancy based on interviews Read More…
The Importance of Perspective
One of the key lessons I took from reading this chapter is the importance of perspective. Apparent feminism is a methodology designed by Erin Frost to emphasize the importance of being explicit about feminist identify in response to socially unjust situations. It also invites participation from allies who do not identify as feminist but do Read More…
Social Media in the College Classroom
The article I wrote my first summary on for this semester was “Focus Social Media in Business and Professional Communication Courses: A Survey of Student Preferences” By Emil B. Towner and Bruce R. Klemz. This felt like a timely thing to be thinking about considering the fact that we are learning fully online right Read More…
Online Engagement Strategies
Hi friends!! I just wanted to share this article with you guys real quick, it’s called Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning Environment by Florence Martin and it essentially discusses three primary ways to encourage students to engage in class. The goals of these strategies are to student Read More…
The Future of Higher Education and Online Learning
Online Learning Is Not the Future Education What the Shift to Virtual Learning Could Mean for the Future of Higher Ed I thought both of these articles were really interesting both focus on the way the pandemic has changed online learning. I think zoom has definitely been an important tool during the pandemic and helped Read More…