With midterms in the rear-view mirror and final projects just around the corner, you might be thinking about how to move students toward the finish line in May. After spring […]
active learning
Teaching Ideas for Online Class Sessions
In anticipation of Baruch’s Online Learning Week (October 9-14) this post provides an overview of preparing and online class session and introduces a few simple ideas for adapting a class […]
Checking student understanding with Plickers
It’s likely that most of the people reading this post have used or heard of clickers: in-class polling systems that allow instructors to gauge student knowledge, understanding, or interest in […]
Multimodal assignments
The following resources were developed by Chris Campanioni, Mary McGlynn, Lisa Blankenship, Robert Greco, and Lindsey Albracht for a workshop on multimodal assignments and assessments. Multimodal assignments ask students to […]
Listening, Improv, & Fostering Digital Literacy: Discussion in the Post-Election Classroom
[Note: Sources listed/linked at the end] Last week I was asked to cover a class for a colleague. It was the first class meeting after the election and I was anxious but […]
Getting the Discussion Started
Even if you know how and what you want to “cover” during your discussion, you want to strategically think about how you will start the discussion. This signals the tone […]