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This is a good resource for rethinking your course for an online setting

A useful description of a class survey and steps which can help more students be comfortable with their cameras on more often. The suggested techniques include a discussion of setting norms and addressing distractions, which could be useful for face-to-face classes as well.

Tremendous example of reflective teaching and course design, as the hosts of the Tea for Teaching podcast reflect on their fall experiences teaching online courses with significant synchronous elements. This would be great listening as we think about the design of spring courses.

We're getting some terrific tips about remote and hybrid teaching on our new site - check it out and let us know what's working for you!

Terrific thoughts about a first day of class over videoconference. It's interesting to me how many of these are basically digital translations of techniques which work well in physical classrooms too.

This was written to address the pivot to remote learning, but the advice applies to any crisis, including the current political situation. There's value in your lengthy, developed teaching philosophy, and there's value stating in your principles in ways which are easy to recall under pressure.

Terrific, concrete tips from Flower Darby about strategies which will make your discussion boards more successful.

We used Robin DeRosa's "Rule of 2" to help faculty identify critical priorities in the shift to remote learning. Now she's back with a framework for longer-term adaptation of our courses, curricula, and institutions.

How are you recharging? If the summer lets you recharge differently, how can you bring some of that forward with you?

"What does it look like to do this kind of work online? How do we walk our virtual campuses to address accessibility concerns? Where do we hold the necessary town hall meetings to address hard questions about inclusivity?"

A terrific set of models from Plymouth State's CoLab present a set of ways of thinking about how we can make the best use of our precious face-to-face class time in the fall.

These tips and techniques would benefit any breakout activity, but in online teaching this kind of structure will be crucial.

Great thoughts from Derek Bruff about approaches to discussion and groupwork when half the students are coming by videoconference.

From Cathy Davidson: "There is almost no field untouched by this COVID pandemic or irrelevant to it. I do not mean we all have to suddenly become trauma therapists. That's dangerous (unless we are trained to that role). And it doesn't mean making every class "about" the pandemic (that would be awful). It means being sensitive to the devastating historical moment in which we are now living. Before we even think about a syllabus or videos or Zoom, think about what it means to be a student. Now."

From Maha Bali, a reminder that the interstitial time between events is important, not just dead air. Are you finding ways to hold that time, and conducting your classes and meetings in ways which help protect it for others?

Good reflection by Kevin Gannon about his institution's implementation of HyFlex instruction.