As we get closer to fall quarter, I get more emails from vendors trying to sell me the latest tech that will make our return to campus even easier. And they almost always start with, "I hope this email finds you well." I ignore them, but lately I have wanted to reply...
With every passing week, we get closer to an in-person fall quarter. And part of me is excited and part of me is cautious that this is actually going to happen, only because our remote work lasted so much longer than any of us anticipated. So is this finally the end...
While I know we are all dragging ourselves toward the finish line of spring quarter, I also feel less dread about the future. It seems like fall will be better as we navigate towards in-person classes again. And that has me thinking about a question I've always posed...
James Lang, one of my favorite faculty developers, wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education this week about why he no longer grades class participation. In short, he found it difficult to do in an equitable way, hard to distinguish through grading...
Spring quarter seems to be arriving with a sense of gloom and resignation. Coming up on the one-year mark of the world shutting down is weighing heavy on us all. I mean, who would have thought we would be teaching Spring quarter remotely - AGAIN?! Students and faculty...
Well, 2021 arrived with a bang. As things hopefully begin to move in more positive directions, I finally feel like I can start looking ahead to when we return to campus. It's still a ways off, and there's plenty of remote teaching ahead of us, but I think it's...
For my final post of the year, I'm reflecting on 2020 - what a dumpster fire. Reflection over. But seriously, it was an incredibly challenging, exhausting, frustrating, emotional year, for so many different reasons. I don't need to recount those reasons, and I don't...
Over the past 8 months (which feels more like 8 years), faculty developers have worked tirelessly to come up with new and creative ways to promote community building in the classroom. "We need connection now more than ever!" we have cried and beat our drum for Zoom...
I'd like to take a moment to shift focus from students to you, the faculty, as part of this pandemic pedagogy series. Since the switch to remote teaching, we've been going fast and furious how to teach and support students as they experience tech problems, wildfires,...
In Part One, I shared some background thoughts and experiences on assessment. In short, there's no magic solution that eliminates cheating. So instead, let's focus on making better assessments and celebrate the students who are trying their best. While the advice I...
