Extending the Mind
This summer, I recommended to everyone I encountered that they take an hour and listen to this podcast conversation between Ezra Klein and Annie Murphy Paul about her new book The Extended Mind. Th…
Teaching
Online Course Wiki / trails
Dr. Erin Whitteck on Twitter: "See below to learn from some amazing colleagues about structuring peer feedback. I will report back. I plan to try out the TAG method with my first year experience students for peer feedback on ePortfolios. h/t to @OnlineCrsLady and @dbuckedu among many others!" / Twitter
The Asynchronous Cookbook – Simple Book Publishing
Kelly Hogan on Twitter: "Hyflexin'💪with Zoom, enabling auto-transcript for zoomers, but the teeny sized transcripts in your way for in-person presenting? You can hide these. Want transcripts large for audience? Enable powerpoint subtitles instead. These are much bigger. Figured it out in week 4. Tadaah! https://t.co/t0X7zB0GQS" / Twitter
Flexible Profession: How much can we bend?
Michael Weinraub on Twitter
@Bali_Maha @brennacgray So much to love in @brennacgray's funny, touching, and human piece, and anything that makes me think of @tmbg is a delight https://t.co/GG76PT5BXW h/t @Bali_Maha @hypothes_is
Carl T. Bergstrom on Twitter: "1. A thread for my fellow college and university instructors, though high school teachers and students may be interested as well. Amidst the pandemic we're all trying to adapt to giving and taking exams online. The "simple" solution is to keep writing exams as we always have..." / Twitter
1. A thread for my fellow college and university instructors, though high school teachers and students may be interested as well. Amidst the pandemic we're all trying to adapt to giving and taking exams online.
The "simple" solution is to keep writing exams as we always have...
Wonder Tools — Teaching Toolkit
Masks in the Classroom: Part 2! : Center for the Advancement of Teaching
About this time last year, I wrote a short post with a few mask recommendations and tips for teaching in a mask. We’ve learned a lot over the past year, so I thought it might be helpful to revisit this idea again in preparation for fall classes.
Tip: Writing a Syllabus
The syllabus is where important course relationships begin: student-instructor, student-content, & student-student.
Tech Thursday: Canvas Course Labels
A small change to make your Canvas dashboard more easily navigable.
Preparing Your Fall 2021 Course - Duke Learning Innovation
Teaching and learning during the pandemic has been and will continue to be a challenge at Duke, even if Fall courses may be more classroom-based than last year. Many teaching ...
The Landscape of Merging Modalities
If you are engaged with online learning and are confused by the terminology, you are not alone.
Preparing to Teach After 16 Months of Disruption : Center for the Advancement of Teaching
In today's post, I address a concern I've heard from many of you related to our students' potential "learning loss" after multiple semesters of pandemic learning. What should we expect in terms of their preparation for the coming semester and, more importantly, how might we adjust our teaching to account for what these students may need?
Kim Case- Syllabus Challenge for Inclusive Practices
www.drkimcase.com @drkimcase (twitter/insta) Instructions: The main goal is to analyze your syllabus (and eventually the full course) for potential improvements that infuse inclusive practices throughout. Keep in mind that inclusion attends to a broad range of topics such as those listed to the r...
Getting Started With Ungrading | Dr. Ian O'Byrne
Over the past semester or two, as COVID has been disrupting most parts of our lives, I’ve been thinking more about teaching, learning, and assessment in my classes. This is more than just an opportunity to modify my practice when things go sideways. I think this pandemic has given us an opportunity to think deeply... Continue reading →
LibGuides: UDL-Universe: A Comprehensive Faculty Development Guide: Home
LibGuides: UDL-Universe: A Comprehensive Faculty Development Guide: Home
Mastery Quizzes for Mastery Learning – Agile Learning
5 easy things to do to remember people’s names
Want to know the number one thing that stops people from learning names? That they emphatically tell you that they’re “awful at remembering names.” Break that habit, and add these other practices, and you’ll be on your way to not forgetting the name of the person you just met.
Autumn A. BlackDeer, MSW on Twitter
It's back to school time and subsequently the #DecolonizeYourSyllabus is coming back around. Here's my recommendations for how to move beyond performative actions or checking boxes, a 🧵of Indigenous wisdom by an Indigenous scholar:— Autumn A. BlackDeer, MSW (@AsherBlackdeer) August 19, 2021
Adam Grant on Twitter
Personality is how you respond on a typical day. Character is how you show up on your worst day.It's easy to demonstrate fairness, integrity, and generosity when things are going well.The real question is whether you stand by those values when the deck is stacked against you.— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) August 14, 2021
Syllabus Generator – ClioVis
Easy Seating Charts for Teachers using a free Google Drawing Template
This tutorial shows you how to use my free Google Drawing template to create easily modifiable and printable seating charts for your classroom. Follow the li...
Dismantling the Evaluation Framework – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Tailoring Instruction to “Learning Styles” Help Students Learn?
Professors at Play!
FUN in Higher Education
My Learning Disability Made Me Do It
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Wednesday: Designing for Care
Start by trusting students ~Jesse Stommel accept students, even as they resist learning. ~Cindy Kernahan, Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom. IntroductionToday, we're going to turn our attention to what we do when we design our teaching and curriculum – and how we do that from a place
Thursday: Ungrading and Alternative Assessment
IntroductionI recently offered a series of "small things you can do tomorrow to start ungrading." I’ve never been a fan of best practices. In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks writes about bringing our full selves to the classroom, and creating space for students to bring their full selves. This