
10 tips on how to kick-start the new school year
This is your blog post. Blogs are a great way to connect with your audience and keep them coming back. They can also be a great way to...

Are you an introvert? Here's why you should be speaking up in class
This is your blog post. Great looking images make your blog posts more visually compelling for your audience, so choose media that really...

Creating Community in Online Education
“We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.” –S. Kelley Harrell Spring is a season of rebirth, and the chorus of excited birds outside...

Online Teaching Made Easy
When I began teaching online twelve years ago, many of my colleagues admonished me for buying into a “fad” that may soon pass. Having...

Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus
Welcome New Online Faculty, Many campuses have mandated that students socially isolate to reduce the spread of Coronavirus, and more...

On the Difficulties of Writing About Love
Happy Valentines Day! I’ve given myself the worst writing prompt ever assigned. Write about love, define it, wrestle this day back for...

Learning Through Hardship
My father likes to say that he wouldn’t be a teenager again for a million bucks. That makes two of us. Sharing my home with a sixteen...

The Future Will be Annotated
Photo by Pok Rie on Pexels.com My whole adult life I have taught composition. In 1994, I landed my first paid teaching gig in Prague at...

Creating Cognitively Nurturing Spaces Online
Adult students are busy. So busy that we nerdy academic types have labeled them as experiencing “time poverty” because they literally do...

Ask an Expert: Interview with Dr. Annie Pezalla
Each week, we want to bring you fresh blogs full of important insights about teaching online. This week, the focus is on providing...

Warming up Dull Discussion Boards
We need to talk. Is there a more dreaded four-word sentence on earth? Well, my beloved online teachers, we need to talk. This is a...

Father’s Day 2018
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The weather forecast for this weekend has a little tie above the projected temp to indicate that June 17th...

Creating an Environment of Belongingness Online
More universities are adopting online learning platforms for global expansion. Up credentialing, workforce readiness, and increasing...

Using Humor in Online Teaching
Humor is a strategy that takes some of the sting out of learning new things. Our brains relax once we’ve had a few yucks. I happen to...

Teaching Through Tough Times
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free...
















