by Shiva | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear All, Below are some tips that can help you prepare, organize and set up your class. Please let me know if you have any additional information/tips that you think may be useful to add to my list. I would love to read/hear them. Things to do: Before class...
by vlevan | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/20/coronavirus-college-pass-fail/ Colleagues at ours and other institutions are questioning the humanity of grading during a pandemic situation in a remote learning environment that is new for all of us, and some have...
by vlevan | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
When I begin working with a new group of students, I have them reflect together and develop a classroom contract, or rules of engagement. The image above is an example from fall quarter. These contracts are useful, because they give me something to refer to when...
by pctang | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
One thing that stood out to me reading the results of the preliminary online survey is that many of my students would like to know if there’s going to be way to communicate the effectiveness of remote teaching at some point in the middle of the quarter. I think...
by vlevan | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Like Samantha, I will be reducing the synchronous element of my class, for precisely the reasons she explains. In addition to these issues of access – students in different time zones, with varying Internet access, loud or not private home environments –...
by jscodel | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear All, I’m planning like many to mix short lectures, short Zoom discussions, and Canvas activities, maybe both blogs and groups discussions. I am wondering if colleagues who have had highly successful Canvas group discussions could suggest methods for...
