You're semester or school year is off and running - am I right? In my last post I encouraged you to take care of yourself over the summer. To show yourself some compassion as you prepared for this fall. I hope you did that. If you didn't now you have another chance. In the world of helpers, September is Self Care Month. Consider this my gentle nudge to remind you to take care of yourself as you work online with your students this semester. Self care is another blog post, but it is a form of self compassion and if you don't show this to yourself, you will struggle to offer it to your students. Find someone you can pair up with who would be fortunate enough to have a self care partner in you. Speaking of fortunes, I was fortunate enou gh to attend several profess ional development sessions this summer. As we work together to grow our knowledge and skills using a compassionate pedagogy framework, let me share some compassion with you. This was shared wit...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series about how to transfer your face to face courses into effective online learning communities. This is not only the first blog post in a series to help those who are now moving your classes from face to face delivery to an online platform but - it's the first blog post for the Doubtfully Digital Blog. You can read about our goals for the blog here but for now let's get to it. Whether we agree about the effectiveness of online course delivery or not, the global health crisis we are facing has forced our hand. In order to keep our students moving towards their educational goals, we are going online. This first blog post will focus on helping you with steps you can take to prepare yourself, your courses, and your students for the new world of online learning communities. This post, and the others that follow in this series, are based on my experiences doing this, quite reluctantly, when...