Category: Higher Education
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Digital Fridays Video Playlist
In case you missed them, you can watch many of the webinars in this series on Youtube.
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Looking Back at COVID-19
COVID-19 has been hard on all of us. I teach Principles in Health Science to undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. I’ve been teaching this class for several years. When COVID-19 first arrived and instructors paused in-person classes, I had to effectively and quickly move to on-line instruction. Way back in […]
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A Tip to Ward off Zoombification (And Get You Through to End of Term)
Feeling not-yet-at-the-finish-line exhaustion? Zoomed out? Facing Zoombification, your own and your students? Here’s something our TLH team did yesterday in the middle of an hour-long conference presentation on antiracist pedagogy that resonated with some 95 colleagues. It works in any synchronous online classroom or meeting to instantly change the energy level and keep us all […]
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“I Wake Up Counting”: A Free Online Publication of Syllabi and Activities from our Spring 2020 Course
“FOREWORD” to I WAKE UP COUNTING Genera Editor, Tatiana Ades A Manifold Publication https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/i-wake-up-counting It is a great pleasure to write this Foreword to I Wake Up Counting: A Guide to Transformative Teaching & Learning in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This book is both a document and a guide. It documents an extraordinary student-led […]
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Teaching With The Digital Archive
For students who are just learning how to wield digital literacy and assess sources in a critical fashion, digital archives provide a ready source of analysis. As a MA student at Oklahoma State University, I taught a section of First Year Writing which included the archive as a site of digital literacy. In introducing students […]
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Returning to the Classroom
This spring, I’ll be co-teaching a course that I’m really excited about, along with my colleague Matt Brim: Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education. We are teaching together as part of the Futures Initiative’s slate of interdisciplinary team-taught courses. The opportunity to teach is significant for me: the last time I taught in the formal, […]
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Feminism, Activism, and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Danica Savonick
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Danica Savonick over the phone on May 18, 2020. I am grateful for her time and energy towards this project and especially appreciate the opportunity to elevate her important insights about the transformative power and potential risks of using digital technologies in the classroom. As the pandemic ravages on, her considerations here remain […]
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Zoom for Students 101
In the wake of the recent Covid-19 outbreak, many universities have decided to transition to online learning in lieu of live face-to-face learning. Instructors continue efforts to provide live support for their students and maintain consistency in their lives. One distinct tool that have stood out is Zoom, many educational institutes have used Zoom for […]
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An Education Experiment: Teaching, Learning, and Mental Health Amidst COVID-19
In this blog post, I reflect on my unique experiences as both an undergraduate studying English and psychology at SUNY Cortland and teaching assistant attempting a semester of online learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. My goal is to help normalize the chaos we are all experiencing as students and teachers by sharing my personal […]
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Ten Ways to Save the End of Term–for You and Your Students
Please note: I’m bringing this thead over unedited from Twitter for those who aren’t on that tool. The abbreviations etc are for the word count of Twitter. (You might also want to read a prior blog, that has had over 72K downloads that offers one basic bit of advice: “Be human first, prof second.” “The […]