The Long Night of Grading is here!
The end of the semester is in sight. We have two more weeks of class and then finals week, and we know that that means--GRADING! But you don’t have to grade alone. Instead, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good company...
Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice
We are working with an instructor to create a new online Geography course this fall. As part of that process, I created a demo quiz that contains several different types of quiz questions that can be created in Moodle. That's right, Moodle can do more than just...
Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors
Last spring at the beginning of the semester, one of my online Eng. 111 students wasn’t logging into Moodle or responding to my emails. If he didn’t get started soon, he’d be a week behind. I pulled his transcript, saw that he was a dual-enrolled student from...
Horizon
I would like to share with you a poem titled “Horizon.” It is from a book of poems by Rudy Francisco titled: Helium. I came across the book during a Read Harder challenge. I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments. I hope there is something beautiful on...
Gratitude
Last year, when my daughter was a freshman in college and having a really hard time, she would complain to me about everything. She was unable to see anything good about her college, her new city, her life far from home. So I pulled out a strategy I used to use when...
Why can’t I sleep?
Am I worrying to much about things that I cannot change? Am I worrying out about the one time I said that one thing wrong that one day? Am I worrying about my student that has never missed a class and now has been gone all week? Am I worrying about the student that...
Go to Class or Study? 9x9x25 Post #7
So, what am I going to reflect on this week? Good Question.
Last week, all was fairly quiet in my teaching world.
One class spent the week doing review for their test next week.
The other class was quiet, but …
Would You Please Start Arguing Part 4 of 4
I ended last week on one way that I teach constructive disagreement--through investigating bias and trying a new argument style. Constructive disagreement is what I want from my students--at the college level, I want them to go beyond Graham’s Hierarchy of...
Planting Seeds: Empowering Open Advocacy
It is empowering to engage with educators and librarians IRL At #OEOSummit2018 #OEOSUMMIT18 – Thank you for anohter great day @eCampusOntario
— Laura Killam (@NurseKillam) November 12, 2018
Today, in the final session at the OEO Summit the eCampusOntario Fellows …
Seeing My Students Soar
This is my seventh post for the 9x9x25 Challenge.
This evening while I was waiting at the airport to board my plane to Toronto for TESS 2018, I ran into one of my former students. I taught her when she …








