Category: Higher Education
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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…
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So How Are You Planning to Start Your Class Tomorrow?
Today (Nov 3, election day) in our Futures Initiative meeting we talked about what we’ll do in class the day after the election. Several of the FI Fellows are graduate students who are also teachers. The election is the elephant in the room… but it won’t be the same elephant for every student and, as…
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New book offers vital toolbox in visual research methods for LIS
New book offers vital toolbox in visual research methods for LIS Facet Publishing announce the publication of Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies, edited by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb Visual research methods (VRM) comprise a collection of methods that incorporate visual elements such as maps, drawings, photographs, videos, as…
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Collaborative Close Reading Online
This blog explains how collaborative close reading can be done online. I recommend reading that post before this one. Since posting my collaborative close reading activity nearly two years ago, photographs of colorful, annotated excerpts have circulated on social media from classrooms all over the world. As professors have adapted this activity for different classroom…
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Call for Submissions for General Issue of the the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Dec. 2, 2020 Deadline
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Issue Editors: Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo) Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame) Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/ The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at…
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An Activity to Put a Stop to “Students Don’t Read My Comments on their Papers”
As a composition instructor, one of the complaints I hear most often among colleagues (and I’ve definitely said this myself) goes something like this: “Students don’t read my comments on their papers.” It feels like such a waste of time when this happens–and that is frustrating–but it also means, in my view, that we are doing…
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Benefits of Using Brightspace Learning Management: A Student Perspective
For the past 3 months, I had the opportunity to work a co-op term at my university working on upgrading our learning management system from Moodle to the D2L system Brightspace. My background comes from Social Sciences and my knowledge of computer science is very limited. But with my major in Political Science and minor…