This is my life now

Nice to see you (at least I think that’s you behind the little black rectangle).

Reflecting on teaching in 2020 is as common as the phrase “you’re on mute.”

What did 2020 teach you about your teaching?

I spent the first part of the fall working out how to translate the material I normally deliver in a classroom into a ‘remote delivery’ format. From the outset, I didn’t confuse that with ‘online’ even though I knew that most of my teaching would be done over the Internet.

WHY? That’s simple. As my Dean repeated, helpfully, over and over, the vast majority of students (and faculty) who entered the COVID year of schooling didn’t choose to be online and most did so reluctantly.

My two least favourite words of this year “asynchronous” and “synchronous.” It’s not so much that I didn’t like to straddle them both but that they took me away from my comfort; constant purposeful reciprocal engagement as the way to customize and adapt on the fly to where my classes and I go together rather than me telling them what to know about.

we expected/wanted/were promised as close to the analog as possible … I didn’t generally like it or buy in easily.

Welcome to my teaching dossier!

To the left (on a computer) or up top (on a tablet/phone) you will find a menu of ‘ideas’ rather than ‘pages.’ Please consider this an always in progress document rather than a full picture. If you want to find out what’s new, why not email me?

There is no hard and fast rule about how to organize a teaching dossier. Please don’t think of this as a linear document with a beginning, middle, and end. Poke around and see what moves you.

If you have a moment, please consider downloading this entire dossier, 2016 edition w/ 2018 addendum (with even more snazziness) as a PDF – the pictures are prettier that way 😉

Or why not the August 2019 version ?

Like I said, work in progress.

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