Category: Teaching
So here we are. Two days before the end of 2020. Needless to say 2020 through a wrench into–well, itself–and that has meant I’ve spent less time blogging in order to focus elsewhere. The goal wasn’t to abandoned blogging all together, but to write it I had the sufficient time to do so. I tried […]
It’s hard to believe but it’s already been a month since I published a blog post about OU’s Teach Anywhere site going live. I’ve said this in a half a dozen Zoom meetings, but the past five weeks have been like a high speed car chase. From the perspective of leading the Office of Digital […]
Featured image photo by Victoria Heath on Unsplash As universities and colleges across the country shift classes online, we are […]
I’ve only recently stumbled upon La Blogothèque, a French website / YouTube channel that produces fantastic films of music being performed. They have beautiful concerts like this one of The National, ‘Live in Cork’. The National, ‘Live in Cork,’ produced by La Blogothèque Even better are their “Take Away Shows” where they get a band […]
TLDR: Replace your course rubric with a letter of recommendation. It’s time that we take responsibility for knowing our students. If you can’t write a letter of recommendation for your best students, you should rethink your teaching. If we center the letter of recommendation at the core of our assessment strategy, we can create a […]
Keegan is wrapping up the first week of his Information Literacy Faculty Learning Community as I type. The FLC, especially for weeks 1 & 2, draws heavily on Mike Caulfield’s work on media and information literacy, especially his recent work around what he calls the ‘Four Moves’ of fact-checking. Mike has built out an challenge bank […]
2016 still sounds more like a made up year in the distant future than that time “a couple of years ago.” Nonetheless, a couple of years ago, Scott Wurdinger came out with a book called The Power of Project-Based Learning. There is a great deal of debate over how to define PBL. Wurdinger recounts how […]
