Online Teaching Tips and Articles
10 Minute Teacher Podcast
Vicki Davis, host of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast recently had me on the show to discuss how to teach effectively with Zoom.…
3 Reasons Why Videoconference Classrooms Feel Awkward
Three elements create awkward spaces in the streaming video classroom. #1 Latency The first is the latency. That’s the gap between when the person speaks and when it’s heard. To test this, try…
Building Collaborative Dialogue in Online Courses
Lately, I've been reading through a series of journal articles on the topic of creating better online learning conversations. My favorite from the last few weeks was written by Dr. Sarah Haavind, a…
Protocols = Better Online Discussions
Can you imagine facilitating an online discussion in a class of more than 400 undergraduate students? A business course at the University of Central Florida proved that it could be done. What made it…
7 Elements of Effective Learning Teams
Collaborative learning, groupwork, learning teams--whatever you want to call it--has one major problem: it just doesn't work out-of-the-box. However, I find that most educators expect collaborative…
Online Teaching Tip #29 – Why the First Weeks of Your Course are So Critical
Why the First Weeks of the Semester are so Critical Here's a quick way to get a picture of student participation in your class: 1. Click on your participants list in your course site. 2. Then…