iTeach and iLearn

In the age of COVID-19, I'm struggling with keeping up with email. (I mean, I'm struggling with other things too, but this is one sp...

What time are assignments due for your class? Most learning management systems (LMSs) have a default time of midnight. But do assignments ne...

You've probably heard the old saying, "If you don't care where you're going, any road will get you there." I think the...

I'm thinking today about how we can better convey content to our students in instructional videos we might create. I'm hoping that t...

One of the things I've been really grappling with is how to take students seriously. Part of this is the fact that I'm teaching an o...

Lecture is a staple teaching technique in higher education. All right, it's probably a staple teaching technique at every  grade level. ...

One thing I've been thinking a lot about in this season of distance teaching is just how much screentime students of all ages are experi...

In my experience teaching in higher ed, few students take me up on office hours. Partly I think this is due to my discipline (Education)--it...

Overall, I strongly  prefer designing my online courses as asynchronous learning experiences. What I mean by "asynchronous" is tha...

All right, friends...it's time to have a hard conversation. Some of us are concerned about what students think of our classes, and of ou...

I use a lot of video when I'm teaching online. Most of these are short videos that I record on my phone and then upload to YouTube with ...

I'm sure it has never happened to you, but I have accidentally offended people via email. It wasn't necessarily the words I used...i...

In my last post, I introduced the concept of Social Presence in online communication as "how 'real' the other person feels to y...

Want to do just one thing that will almost immediately have an impact on the feeling of connection and community in your online class? Start...

I believe that education is fundamentally a communal endeavor.* As such, there is a burden placed on educators to foster a community of lear...

Teachers expect a lot from their students. At least, this is true in my experience! We expect students to read, to write, to compute, to thi...