Artist Daniel Rarela created a series of memes that juxtapose quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s text with images of King from the time period and with contemporary images. Rarela’s goal, as explained in a January 2017 News.Mic article,…
Category: Teaching
Preparing to Explore Racism
Before discussing racism, we must prepare students to ensure the classroom offers an inclusive and safe environment to explore these issues. We have to be prepared to guide students through fair but honest discussions in ways that avoid emotional or…
Class Discussion about Tolerance
One effective, but simple, way to explore tolerance is to look at the ways people talk about the concept and then produce projects that share their exploration with others on campus. Here’s one way to accomplish that goal through in-class…
Ten Ways to Improve Educational Videos
The move to online courses has many of us working to create videos that replace the explanations of concepts and demonstrations of skills that we would customarily do in the campus classroom. The strategies below help make those videos more…
Using Google Forms to Jump Start Your Video
Now that everyone is teaching online, active learning strategies like minute papers and muddiest point are hard to manage spontaneously. In a campus classroom, you can ask everyone to share responses out loud or on a piece of paper. In…
Online Is Different from Face-to-Face
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…
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…