People, you can’t teach an online course the same way you do face-to-face. Synchronous class meetings =NOT best practice. Assigning more work=NOT best practice. Videos longer than 5-10 minutes=NOT best practice #CovidCampus #digped #teamrhetoric #WPAlife #onlinelearning pic.twitter.com/y4kXAmN74J — Sara Webb-Sunderhaus…
Author: Traci Gardner
Explain What to Do in an Emergency
Providing students with instructions on what to do in an emergency is always a good idea. It’s even more important now as all classes are moving online and many students are relying on technology resources more than they are used…
Turn Your Handout into a Video
You can make a simple video that pairs key information from a short handout with images using the free web-based tool Lumen5. You can edit the video components (the text on screen, how it appears, and the image shown). As…
Ten Tips for Moving Your Class Online Quickly
You’re probably working away at moving your class online. Even with the extra week to prepare that some of us have been given, there are weeks of work ahead of us. We’ll all have to rethink activities, change things that…
Set a Consistent Schedule
Every aspect of a college student’s life is in flux right now. All the familiar routines they are used to are changing because of COVID-19. One of the best things you can do is provide these students with a consistent…
Preparing Students for Online Classes
Teaching completely online writing courses quickly taught me that students needed additional preparation and support in most cases. While students at my university are online often, they are not frequently online for academic purposes. Now, thanks to COVID-19, they are…
Teaching Online 911 Collection on Evernote
As everyone scrambles to support students in online classes, colleagues are sharing links to teaching tips, free online resources, and classroom activities. I have found links in my Twitter Timeline, my Facebook Newsfeed, and my email inbox. Lots of links.…
Stop, Read, & Apply: Guided Revision Activities
Earlier this year, I participated in a conversation on collective feedback during a Faculty Office Hours session (an online chat for teachers of professional and technical writing). Collective feedback, a strategy examined by Lisa Melonçon (University of South Florida, @lmeloncon on…
A Grace Period Update
Recently, several colleagues have asked me about my grace period, which is part of my late policy on student work. Their interest encouraged me to write an update on how it’s been working. I began using a grace period in…
Where to Find Public Domain Videos
Public Domain video from Library of CongressDuck and Cover! by the Federal Civil Defense Administration If you ask your students to create video projects, today’s post is for you. Showing students where to find public domain videos will give them…