Category: Online Learning
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How to sign in to or out of Outlook.com (Hotmail.com)?
Hotmail (or latterly called Outlook) is one of the most advanced and convenient email services nowadays. The users from every corner of the world can access it easily as long as they have the internet connection. Outlook offers us free and unlimited storage as well as connecting us to Facebook, Skype, Google, LinkedIn, to name…
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Both a Grad Student and Instructor: Advocating for Compassionate Teaching During a Global Health Pandemic
The Spring 2020 semester is over and now it’s time to to reflect on what teaching during this seemingly apocalyptic semester meant to me. For many teachers and instructors, Covid-19 transformed how we interacted with our students and approached our pedagogical methods because we could no longer see or engage with our students in person…
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Leading Synchronous Discussions: Challenges and Recommendations
This post was co-authored with HASTAC Scholar Shari Wejsa. You may have been there this year…countless times…attempting to engage with your students during a Zoom session while getting cryptic silences and blank stares in return. The diagnosis? Zoom fatigue. As instructors, what can we do to connect with our students in an online environment while…
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Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions
Asynchronous Discussions Online: Challenges and Suggestions This blog post was co-authored with HASTAC Scholar Norah Elmagraby. You may have heard the anecdote from a friend. Or you may have experienced it yourself. You log into your online course to contribute your weekly post to the discussion thread. You try to navigate your way through the comments shared…
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Every Fall Syllabus Needs an “Or” Option
This post was originally published here on May 23, 2020. By the end of summer, we all will have reinvented our syllabi to account for varying degrees of hybrid teaching. We will have reimagined the structure of our semesters to make our syllabi and ourselves flexible enough to fit the circumstances, whatever they may be,…
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Between Us: Practicing the Future in Uncertain Times
I enrolled in Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences led by Profs. Cathy Davidson and Eduardo Vianna because I hoped it would help me build a stronger, more theoretically grounded, transformative/activist agenda through my scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative work at the helm a platform for publicly-engaged research addressing societal urgencies…
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Reflections on Adapting In-class Activities for Online: Smarties and Dum Dums Activity
As a graduate student at CUNY, I have the wonderful opportunity to be both a student in coursework and an undergraduate instructor at the same time. Reflecting back on this Spring 2020 semester, I found the transition to distance learning challenging and left much to be desired, including my attempts to convert activities from an…
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Examining glitches, switches, and weaponized elements of educational technologies
Image Credit: Raoul Roberts created the above visualization titled Glitches, Switches, and Weaponized Elements inspired by our class session and readings. His reflections on the class session and explanation of the visualization are included in his reflection. The Context In spring 2020, the students and educators in our class Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social…
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Presentation of Decolonial Self in Academic Life (Distance Learning Edition)
On the week of March 9, 2020, the City University of New York announced that it would transition to distance learning, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. Already, individual classes were beginning to make the switch from physical classroom meetings to online video conferences. (Official online instruction by CUNY was…
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The Single Most Essential Requirement in Designing a Fall Online Course
Let’s start the week [updated 7/20/2020] by repeating that a summer of planning for better online learning this Fall will be wasted if we do not begin from the premise that our students are learning from a place of dislocation, anxiety, uncertainty, awareness of social injustice, anger, and trauma. So are we. This is the…