Learning about Viral Epidemics During a Pandemic

Introduction During the last week of class this fall quarter, my First-Year students are giving presentations on topics related to viruses. We are using PowerPoint and sharing screens—sort of old school meets Zoom school. I am really impressed by how the talks are opening up larger discussions, especially on the…
Vision 2020
Making the Best of a Zoom Situation

I teach a lot of performance-based classes. Body and voice are especially important. And Zoom makes this especially hard. Students are often poorly-lit, often have issues with sound, and often feel stuck and physically-restrained in the small boxes of Zoom. So, my fellow performance colleague, Deborah Hathaway, and I recorded…
Let Me Express Myself
Quick and easy-to-do strategies to promote online engagement
Of Chairs and ZoomBombers

by Gavin Doyle With COVID, much of what I’ve relied on for my teaching—immediate interactions with students, a close community of supportive learners, and hands-on exercises—felt like they’d be lost. How was I supposed to teach ACTING over a webcam, for instance? I’ve been unsuccessfully arguing with UWB for years…
Repurposing Education: Building Academic Networks

by Sarita Shulka With the COVD-19 outbreak, so many questions have been raised about what it means to teach and learn. Our understanding of the educational ecosystem with physical classrooms, tests, school bells suddenly shifted to emergency online teaching. The uncertainty of this sudden shift has been an ever-present reality….
Exploring New Places
How I fell in love with Padlet

By Rebecca M Price Our faculty learning community discusses teaching and learning on the open web, and we frequently share with each other apps that facilitate learning. I’m a fan of Google docs, and I structure my classes so that students and I share collaborative documents. We frequently brainstorm in…