Teaching in a Hybrid Classroom – What’s Working, What’s Not
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. For some instructors, the classroom looks very different this fall. Some of their students …
Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced …
Hacking the Classroom: Ideas from the Next Gen #LearningSpaces Conference
During my workshop at the Next Generation Learning Spaces conference in Nashville last week, I asked participants to hack the classroom, brainstorming …
Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences
I led a workshop on social pedagogies, with a focus on social media tools that support such pedagogies, at Elon University this …
Structured Twitter Assignments
Last month on ProfHacker, Mark (@samplereality) Sample described his use of Storify to collect and organize student tweets in his science fiction …
The (Complete) Twitter Backchannel at #CIRTLForum
Last month I shared a quick analysis of the Twitter backchannel at the CIRTL Network Forum in Madison, Wisconsin. That analysis was …
Building a Better Backchannel
People often ask me, How do you have time to blog? Today’s posts offer one answer to that question. Here’s another post …
Social Pedagogies as a Framework for Online Learning
“A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network” is the title of my essay appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s special …
The Twitter Backchannel at #PODHBCU
The POD Network / HBCU Faculty Development joint conference had a robust backchannel on Twitter last week, which made me happy since …
Everyone’s a Visual Learner: Workshop Recap (#PODHBCU)
Jose Vazquez of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and I co-facilitated a 75-minute session at the joint POD Network / HBCU …