Category: COVID-19 teaching transition
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Several months ago, I shared some of the new teaching practices I experimented with this fall (my first ever time teaching in a hybrid in-person/online format). As I noted in that post, one thing that seemed to me to work very well has been having students record short Flipgrid video responses to daily readings. Although…
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In our October "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: I am the faculty advisor for our undergraduate philosophy club this year. Can people share some ideas about events and activities (online or in-person with social distance) during the time of COVID-19? This is a great question, and I think it could be…
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Now that many of us are a month or so into fall semester courses, and have been teaching in new formats due to the pandemic, I thought it might be good to have a thread checking in with readers to see how things are going. What format(s) are you teaching in? What things are you…
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In our August "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: I am preparing Fall 2020 syllabi for mid-to-upper-level courses. Synchronous-online instructors, how much reading material are you all assigning? How much are folks assigning relative to what they would have assigned in a non-COVID-in-person scenario? Good questions. I'm currently scheduled to teach a…