My work on 23 Things for Digital Knowledge and my growing interest in how to be an effective and engaging teacher in online spaces led me to attend the Medieval Academy of America webinar, Online Teaching and Medieval Studies yesterday. This post aims to record a few brief notes and reflections from that event. The… Read more A Cool Thing: Online Teaching and Medieval Studies
Category: Online Teaching
Course construction ahead….
This fall, I’m teaching a writing intensive undergraduate class. In lieu of writing a term paper or literature review, our class is using blogs for weekly writing and revisions and project websites (for more writing and revisions). Most of the students have not blogged before and are excited to try it out. It’s been really […]
CCC: Create a remix!
The fourth assignment in the Creative Commons course is a fun one! It asks us to create some type of a remix for a course that we teach. After browsing through some examples from my peers in the course, I came across this great creative example that Helen DeWaard made: a course trailer. I thought […]
Annotation tools for online teaching and learning in higher education
This post is a short recap of collaborative annotation tools that I have found to be currently available (as of January 2018) and appear to be suitable for online teaching and learning in higher education. Over the past semesters, I have gradually been incorporating annotation tools in my online courses, starting with text and now […]