Doubtfully Digital

As our time teaching during the crisis phase of COVID-19 levels off, many of us are taking a breath, just glad to have made it through this past semester.  Prior to the pandemic, many of us were planning on taking time this summer to do what we enjoy - time for travel, outdoor moments, sleep, reading, and of course often writing. As the summer progressed we would then prepare for our fall courses. I'm sorry to share - and excited to say - that this summer will be disrupted just as your spring semester was. My apologies come from the grief we all feel regarding things lost. And I strongly encourage you to find ways to refuel yourself during the summer, especially if you are not teaching. Now my candor - if you want to be a successful instructor with excellence in your online classes, you will have to begin preparing now. Many of your universities and schools are likely building committees to help you prepare for the fall. But if you keep reading this blog, you will have a profess

Good day Dear Readers, If we have learned anything during this time, it is the importance of flexibility, nimbleness and compassion in teaching and learning. I had the intention of blogging weekly and you are well aware that this was interrupted. I feel the need to apologize but that is not necessary. Let me share further. I'm a helper by nature  - hence my chosen profession in social work. I had hoped to have a big impact through this blog as many educators moved from residential teaching to online teaching. I adore the challenge of building community, of backwards design of learning activities and accompanying students and educators who have found themselves in the land of online learning; nothing delights me more to see their eventual success when they had so many doubts. I very much wanted to be as helpful to as many stressed educators as possible. I had hoped to provide tools that could help on the fly, that could help them understand that being human with their students