In creating a daily digital diary, teachingwritingonline (www.teachingwritingonline.wordpress.com), I documented what it was like to teach a fully online teaching load. I blogged for 116 days during the 16-week Spring 2016 semester, recording the challenges, successes and unpredictable events that occur while teaching in a virtual environment. The blog captures anecdotal evidence regarding a variety[…]
We all secretly loathe email. Admit it. That wave of relief you get when that incoming message is a Groupon notification and not someone asking you for something…nirvana. The worst is collaborating in a file that’s been bouncing around inboxes. Rough draft? Final draft? Are you even in my class? There’s a better way. My[…]
Have you ever considered using Twitter and Weebly in the classroom but aren’t sure how to do it? Have questions about how these technologies can help you engage students? Education professor April Zawlocki shares how she uses both Twitter and Weebly in the classroom to facilitate and enhance student learning, helping you better understand everything from[…]
In July, two COD writing students were featured on Wikipedia’s Education blog for work they had done in my summer composition classroom. One of those students, a Navy veteran and self-described technophobe, created a Wikipedia article — from scratch — on the U.S. military’s sexual assault prevention and response program, or SAPR, which is intended[…]
Here’s a scary thought: 24 percent of teens reported being online “almost all of the time” (Hawkins, 2015, p. 43). What’s even scarier: these are the students that are going to be sitting in your classes, not only today, but for many more years to come! So the situation has changed from trying to figure out how[…]
Being a teacher is a lot like being an artist: it takes a good deal of both hubris and humility. One must know something others ought to know and the hubris to profess it (hence the penultimate title). But a teacher must also have the humility to remain a student in perpetuity, accepting the notion[…]
Full-time Speech faculty set a goal of increasing collaboration and sharing resources with adjunct faculty. We developed an online course shell to be used in the introductory Speech course that helps us meet those goals. Here’s what we learned from the process. Listen Perhaps the most important advice we can offer is to listen to[…]