Serendib Teaching

Prepping for the semester is a little more pleasant in the woods esp. when online pedagogy research is intercut with a few food and garden magazines. 

I’m tentatively planning to record a lot of very short videos, because some of the research I’ve been reading indicates that a lot of students are much more likely to watch a brief video than read a ‘wall of text’. (I find this convincing, in part because so often Kavi glances at my screen and

Haven’t read this yet, but was recommended, posting to look at later. 9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face Sponsored by PowerSchool and ISTE U It’s a pretty safe bet that most teachers will be doing some form of online teaching in the coming year. Maybe you’ll do it full-time, maybe it will

Starting to think through the first week of classes. Some things I’m tentatively planning to do for my two asynchronous classes (one a lit class of up to 25, the other a creative writing class of up to 15): 1) Record a short intro video that covers basic syllabus and class policies, the sort of

So, one thing that I think people don’t understand about remote education is just how much time teachers will be putting into making videos. I tried to explain it to a friend of mine on the phone, how I do take after take when recording a video, and somehow I failed to convey it well

Interesting teaching frame: from Wanda Sullivan, an Art History professor at Spring Hill College, whose name is not provided in the citation at the end, very adaptable for lit and gen ed classes: “I teach Contemporary Art History online. The majority of the students are not art majors, so I do not have a captive