I’m one of those instructors who like to have students complete reading journals during the course of the semester. I tried it during the pandemic, but it didn’t work out nearly as well as I had hoped. Although if we’re being honest, very few things worked out as well during that first semester of COVID-19…
Read More Journals 3.0: Helping to keep the reading going (Moving from Moodle to D2L, part 2)My students can tell you that I like for there to be a good answer to the “so what” question; in other words, if I’m going to teach about a concept, my students should know what I’m asking them to learn, why they should learn it, and what they should be able to take away…
Read More The “so what” behind the Accessible Document Specialist credentialSo I have the chance to teach a course at GC that I previously taught at Bethel, and was dreading the thought of moving the course from Moodle to D2L. There’s a blog at South Suburban College that explains the process quite well. I thought I’d talk about what happens once you follow their directions.…
Read More Moving from Moodle to D2L (Part 1)And what do a couple of Research 1 schools have to teach those of us at liberal arts schools? I’ve been trying to update our department’s annual Individual Faculty Report (IFR) to make it easier to understand. It’s forced me to think more about what makes for an effective teacher. Yes, there are lots of…
Read More How do we evaluate college teaching…One of the things I do like about the Mac ecosystem is that there can be some nice synergies between programs and their respective Mac/iPad/iPhone versions. OmniOutliner is one of those programs. I remember in my days of competing in forensics, I’d take the 30 minutes of preparation time in extemporaneous speaking, write my outline…
Read More OmniOutliner and Teaching (Part 1)One of the best things that Adobe ever did is to bundle fonts with the Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve been known to spend some time on free font sites, and now with what used to be called Typekit bundled, even more time looking for just the right font for a particular syllabus. Why do I…
Read More Why my syllabi have to always be in different fonts…