Apr 23, 2020
Apr. 20, 2020 “Star Blazer Zero is ready for lift off!” “Mooooom, I’m hungry!” “She took my bug catcher! It’s MINE!” “Will you play ‘Come Here Go Away’ with us?” The sounds of the COVID-19 shutdown for some houses probably include Zoom meetings, awkward laughter,...
Apr 23, 2020
I teach several online and traditional CIT Developer courses. When the campus closed, I decided to run my two traditional classes (CIT218 and CIT228) “live” in Zoom at our regular class meeting times. I also moved all my office hours to online hours in Zoom. In...
Apr 23, 2020
Perhaps one way to accomplish the goal of challenging students during exams is to infuse critical thinking into your exams. When we look at test banks provided by publishers or think back to our own undergraduate college days, the one thing that, perhaps, stands out...
Apr 23, 2020
In this time of rapidly converting our courses to distance or online learning modalities, perhaps one of the biggest questions that remain is how to do testing so that students don’t cheat. Perhaps there is another way to look at this question. How can we reconstruct...
Apr 23, 2020
Like many of you, I imagine, the past month or so has found me oscillating between cycles of obsessive news consumption and bouts of much-needed info-distancing. Through it all, I’ve been buoyed by a steady current of stories of creativity, collaboration, and...
