iTeach and iLearn

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'm thinking a lot about my students right now. I miss them. I've done distance office hours both yesterday and today, and it was so...

Today I deleted a bookmark from my browser that has been there since the fall of 2013. It looked like this: This was a shortcut to a (s...

I love animated gifs. Sometimes they just hit your funny bone, right? Like this one, for instance: Even Vader loves pizza. [Scrounged fr...

Those who regularly read my blog know that I am currently in a doctoral program, and I'm conducting my studies at Boise State University...

I'm teaching a course this semester in middle school curriculum and instruction. While I can't choose one course as my "favorit...

In one of my courses this summer, I was assigned to create a tutorial for online instructors on a topic of my choice. I decided to make a tu...

I have taught online for the past three summers,  and this summer it has felt like a welcome respite to take courses online instead of teach...