Take Your Own Advice
The weather is warming. The plants are budding. The birds are singing. The seasonal allergies are flaring. Yes indeed, all…
What’s Good
Clearly you are smart AND cool. I mean, pretty much everything the CTLE does is cool, so since you’re on…
Survey to Grow
This has been a (ahem!) busy academic year so far as we all continue to develop as online faculty. While…
Am I Actually Teaching?
Now that we are all online and/or live online and/or hybrid instructors, regularly checking for “attendance” in our courses, managing…
Tips for using start- and end-of-week Announcements in a Canvas course.
An Introduction
It isn’t always easy to get around to all areas of campus to meet new people. This spring semester, I…
Choose Truly Valuable
It is challenging to make something feel naturally-by-choice when it is required. The students in my English 101 and 102…
Welcome To You…Welcome To New
We meet again! Back to another academic year following a hot summer break! No matter how you occupied those ten…
Two Hundred Sixteen
In case you haven’t noticed, it is already close to the middle of April! That means much for us as…
Doin’ Work. (As Seen in IDPs!)
I just finished reading through 18 IDPs, and I have got to say… I. Am. IMPRESSED. It never ceases to…
Spring Convocation? Yes!
I registered for the district-wide Spring All Faculty Convocation, and I hope you will too! I have long heard about these events,…
Introductions, anyone?!
Ahhh, the comfort of Week 4. Routines have set in, and students and faculty alike are all a bit more…
Active Learning Annotations: Diversified Instructional Approach
Rutledge, M. L., & Lampley, S. A. (2017, July-August). Can a diversified instructional approach featuring active learning improve biology students’…
Active Learning Annotations: Information Literacy & Applying Toulmin
Maybee, C., Doan, T., & Flierl, M. (2016). Information literacy in the active learning classroom. Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume…
Active Learning Annotations: Role-Play & Issues in Accounting Education
Stevens, R. (2015). Role-play and student engagement: Reflections from the classroom. Teaching in Higher Education, 20(5), 481-492. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2015.1020778. This…
