Current Project: Online Learning Workshops Galore!

Screenshot of me making a video.

This month, I've been busy putting together a variety of workshops, presentations, videos, and online learning experiences about online learning (phew!).  You can check out this recap post for CITL's What You Need to Know workshop series about Session 7, What Can We Assess Online? You can also watch recordings of this and other sessions, view slides and prework from each session, or just read the posts for links, tools, and ideas. (Also, if you like idioms, you may enjoy Idiom Watch, a short snippet from the last session of the What You Need to Know workshop series which captures the tenor of our wide-ranging pre-session discussions pretty well).

I also had the opportunity to talk to my own department about online learning and tools they can use to change up the format of online discussion and assessment as part of an online learning workshop. I created a handout of links for the which offer resources related to each of the presentations that day as well as a list of tools and websites I used or referenced in my discussion. 

More recently, Ava Wolf and I have been co-facilitating a weekly live session for the July version of the university's Online Teaching Academy. The folks in our group are largely graduate student graders, discussion board monitors, or not teaching in Fall 2020, so we have enjoyed the wide range of questions and interests we've gotten to address, including how to make screen capture videos, tools to use for facilitating discussions and make grading more personable, and using rubrics to make your grading better and easier. (And yes, I do remember that I promised you a blog post on rubrics long, long ago-- soon!)

There's also a few upcoming projects: a video about office hours for the Graduate Symposium for Grading and Office Hours etext; a joint presentation with Ava on Online Collaboration for Socially Distanced Learning, and a session on active learning and lesson planning for the History Department Teaching Assistant Orientation. (Links above to other Lesson Spotted posts, because I've apparently talked a bit about these concepts here before-- who knew?)