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Recommended Digital Bookmarking Tool: Raindrop.io

Dave and I don’t change our tools very often. Instead, we try to use as few of them as possible...
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Most-Downloaded Teaching in Higher Ed Episodes in 2020

Terry Greene, host of the Gettin’ Air podcast, asked some of us on Twitter to guess what was the all-time...
Structuring Synchronous Classes for Engagement

Structuring Synchronous Classes for Engagement

I still feel a bit wobbly in my teaching this semester. Students’ facial expressions typically provide me with so many...
How Do You Make Zoom Breakout Rooms Less Boring?

How Do You Make Zoom Breakout Rooms Less Boring?

  This article is part of the guide Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours With Bonni Stachowiak. on EdSurge. It is reposted...
Curation: Is there such a thing as too much?

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Curation?

This article is part of the guide Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis. on EdSurge and is reposted here with...
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Care, Voices, Screen Time, and Zoom Settings

I have been treasuring the opportunity to read about other educators’ lives during this time, as they share with such...
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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

This article is part of the EdSurge guide Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis and is reposted here with permission....
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Three Things I’m Curious About

I recently picked up Josh Eyler’s How Humans Learn, again, to prepare for a talk I gave this past week...
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How to Keep Class Sessions from Running Short (Or Going Too Long)

This article on How to Keep Class Sessions from Running Short (Or Going Too Long) was originally posted on the EdSurge website and...
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Why I Broke My Self-Imposed Open-Textbook Writing Ban

I told Dave that I was done with open textbooks. Well, at least the part of my experience with them...
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Let's Take This Show on the Road: All the Way to Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020

For the first time in Teaching in Higher Ed history, we are taking the show on the road. We have...
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Daily Practice – Tools of the Trade

I was inspired by Bryan Alexander’s post on his Daily Practice: Tools of the Trade. If you aren't already familiar...