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Engagement Tools for Remote Teaching
In the past week, more and more universities have switched or considering switching in-person courses to online courses. Our academic community...
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Presentation of Decolonial Self in Academic Life (Distance Learning Edition)
On the week of March 9, 2020, the City University of New York announced that it would transition to distance learning, in response to the COVID-19...
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Two IHE Articles on Teaching in a Pandemic: Community and Assessment
Here are two compassionate, useful articles about teaching in a pandemic. Both were coauthored with Christina Katopodis, I've (an extraordinary...
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Critical Digital Pedagogy: Strategies for Remote Instruction
On the morning of Monday, March 9, I reached out to a supervisor suggesting that we begin thinking about offering a virtual version of NYU’s Intro to...
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The Single Most Essential Requirement in Designing a Fall Online Course
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Quarantine Blues: How It Really Feels to Suddenly Become an Online College Senior
It has now been about two weeks since the beginning of our nation’s journey into online education. In light of the pandemic, everyone is required to...
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Language Panda: Finding and Sharing Digital Tools for Language Teaching
In 2016, a group of graduate students at Vanderbilt University identified a need on campus for a stronger language teaching community: While...
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Down Shifting: Resisting Over-Productivity and the "Teacher as Martyr" Syndrome in the Pandemic
This teacher-scholar is TIRED. The kind of tired that I can feel behind my eyeballs; the kind that no amount of uninterrupted sleep, vigorous...
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Examining glitches, switches, and weaponized elements of educational technologies
Image Credit: Raoul Roberts created the above visualization titled Glitches, Switches, and Weaponized Elements inspired by our class session and...
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Between Us: Practicing the Future in Uncertain Times
I enrolled in Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences led by Profs. Cathy Davidson and Eduardo Vianna...
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Reflections on Adapting In-class Activities for Online: Smarties and Dum Dums Activity
As a graduate student at CUNY, I have the wonderful opportunity to be both a student in coursework and an undergraduate instructor at the same time...
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Every Fall Syllabus Needs an "Or" Option
This post was originally published here on May 23, 2020. By the end of summer, we all will have reinvented our syllabi to account for varying degrees...
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Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions
Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions This blog post was co-authored with HASTAC Scholar Norah Elmagraby . You may have heard...
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Leading Synchronous Discussions: Challenges and Recommendations
This post was co-authored with HASTAC Scholar Shari Wejsa . You may have been there this year...countless times...attempting to engage with your...
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Both a Grad Student and Instructor: Advocating for Compassionate Teaching During a Global Health Pandemic
The Spring 2020 semester is over and now it's time to to reflect on what teaching during this seemingly apocalyptic semester meant to me. For many...
