If … there be kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~ Etienne Grellet
You probably have an In Case of Emergency (ICE) contact in your cell phone--the person to be called if you have a heart attack on the street, the number accessible even if your phone is locked. You need one for Fall 2020 teaching. It's possible that you, as a teacher, will become ill in the... Continue Reading →
Last Friday was National College Acceptance Day, the day when colleges traditionally ask students to plunk down their deposits for the next school year. Though many schools have extended that deadline, they remain in a race against students and coronavirus: Many universities keep insisting that campuses will be open in the fall. It's hard not... Continue Reading →
If your college or university has a site license to the Chronicle of Higher Education, you can access it from home (since you can no longer swipe the hard copy from the dean's office). Here's how. Now, no more pesky barriers to reading "premium content"!
When was the last time you went to a faculty meeting where "pending budget cuts" wasn't an agenda item? I can't even recall. Two years ago, we stopped purchasing letterhead in our department. We pay our administrative assistant--a 12 month, full-time position that lists a BA as a preferred qualification--under $22,000 a year. That's under... Continue Reading →
This post is part of a series to help you prepare for and navigate online teaching. While you can read the posts in any order, if you are just now building a class, you might want to start here. In online courses, creating careful feedback is even more important than in F2F classes. This is... Continue Reading →
This post is part of an ongoing series to help you prepare an online course thoughtfully but, if needed, quickly. If you begin at the beginning, I'll take you through the major decisions you need to make to launch a class as quickly as possible while still doing a great job. Today's post is about... Continue Reading →
To make sure that we are all well-stocked with books, the University Press of Kansas is currently shipping this book and all other books in the UPK catalog anywhere in the US for free. Use the code SPRING at checkout before midnight tonight to get any of their terrific books (like maybe the one below!)... Continue Reading →
This post is part of a mini-series on preventing cheating in online classes. You can find more posts in this mini-series by searching for "academic integrity" or "cheating" in the search box on the main page. Understanding why students cheat in their schoolwork helps us design courses that makes cheating less of a temptation. For... Continue Reading →
This post is part of a mini-series on preventing cheating in online classes. You can find more posts in this mini-series by searching for "academic integrity" or "cheating" in the Tag Cloud on the main page. Designing an online course to curb cheating assumes that we think that cheating--taking someone else's effort for our own... Continue Reading →