I was telling a colleague the other day about my Literacy class. “We have certain expectations,” I said. Will laughed. “Say no more. I know exactly what you’re talking about,”…

In part one of this post, “digital duct tape” was defined as the act of creating or improvising problem-solving with technology tools to solve a teaching challenge. The following are…

The story: Asking students about their everyday life and engaging them in small talk is a key ritual in my class—whether in-person or online. It helps me build trust with…

Recent training experiences with fully online and blended learning instructors have inspired me. Instructors asked if there were any alternate activity types for their lower-level learners. They asked for short,…

I found an effective way to engage students in reading is for the teacher to write about them and their classmates. In my Literacy/CLB 1 class, I wrote about 9 to…

For me, burn out is feeling exhausted and dreading the coming day. I feel it in my body. Time slows down. I slow down. Like a lit match, I burn…