A Soft-Sell Approach to Pleasure Reading
The book The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee was singing to me for a while. During my Saturday…
Are Your Online Students Tkng Gd Nts n Clss?
Did you have difficulty reading the title of this post? If not, then you might just be an experienced note…
What’s the Word? Using Context to Teach New Vocabulary
As I walked behind a mother and her young daughter at the gym the other day, I eavesdropped on their…
Fostering ‘Belonging Certainty’ in STEM
At the start of this semester, I asked my students why they chose to take statistics. One student quipped, “Because…
Small Steps to a Better Online Course
Like so many summers before, I spent the month of June in visions of grandeur about changing my online course…
Taking a Mid-Term Pulse in Your Online Class
When I began teaching online some years ago, I was stunned by the absence of in-the-moment feedback I was used to from my face-to-face students. A raised eyebrow letting me know there was doubt . . .
