• Teaching

    Help! I am teaching online

    I thought about adding these 5 words (my blogpost title) to the trending hashtag in Twitter, #ScaryStoriesIn5Words. Those tweets made Halloween Day somewhat more Halloween for me, lots of drama and jokes. Scary? Not so much at the ALT Lab where I was stationed for livestreamed sessions from the Online Learning Consortium’s International Conference (OLC). Which is a good thing. The turnout wasn’t ideal but a real and urgent need of some faculty or future faculty members emerged from conversations with some attendees. Some major questions were: “I think I’m going to…

  • Visible Thinking

    Visual Language

    A couple of weeks ago, a faculty member contacted us to ask for tips to help his students’ articulate their ideas in more creative ways. As I responded to the request by suggesting some resources, I realized that in an unplanned way, I’ve spent some time trying out software and documented my playtime in my blog. I was thus able to refer the faculty member to examples of software and activities I’ve tried out myself or learned from others. Here are some older blogposts I’ve written about my “serious play”…