I don’t often make resolutions at the start of a year, but this year I want to make one. It feels like the year to make one 😉 My resolution is to have a “gratitude” daily practice for myself and … Continue reading →
Today at 6pm UTC join the Teach-In #AgainstSurveillance to support Ian Linkletter – to donate, register, and find out more, go to https://tiny.cc/againstsurveillance If you are reading this after the fact, here is the link to watch the recording (still … Continue reading →
This blogpost is going to be much simpler than you think, but I am convinced it will make a huge difference to people who are grappling with a Hyflex model where they teach to small groups onsite and livestream to … Continue reading →
If you’re like me, with an unquenchable thirst for learning, you’re probably spreading yourself thin with professional development, because all of it is just a click away now, and most of it is free. If you’re like me, and you’re … Continue reading →
Don’t ask me which upcoming keynote this will show up in. I haven’t decided fully yet. Possibly whichever one I feel I need to change up my message a bit because the audience may be familiar with my work. So … Continue reading →
Just a couple of small announcements! Monday, October 5 at 5pm CEST, I am speaking at EDEN alongside Autumm Caines and Mia Zamora about building communities of support for teachers online. Register here free Tuesday, October 6, I am giving … Continue reading →
This article is part of the guide Toward Better Teaching: Office Hours With Bonni Stachowiak. on EdSurge. It is reposted on Teaching in Higher Ed with permission. It is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last […]
In a moment of empathy with a lot of faculty/teachers in these times, I wrote this tweet: Everyone knows my stance on cameras on or off. tl;dr: we should not force students to turn them on, because there are many … Continue reading →
I’ve been receiving some speaking invitations lately from unexpected places for unexpected things. But nothing should surprise us any more in times of COVID. This one was BY FAR the most surprising. I will talk Liberating structures and theater of … Continue reading →
At some point in the summer, I realized that people who were having to teach online because of COVID-19 were struggling about how to create community online. Some found it possible to develop their own relationship with their students, but … Continue reading →
I’ve been thinking about this for some time! Pre-pandemic. Then someone in Digital Pedagogy Lab asked the question, and I thought I’d re-post my answer over here on how I would do Theater of the Oppressed online. If you’re doing … Continue reading →
We are all Zoom-fatigued, aren’t we? Or, if you’re getting a break over summer (Northern hemisphere), you were probably Zoom fatigued recently. I have not had a break because I am heavily involved in supporting our faculty for next semester … Continue reading →
I was recently in an informal conversation organized by my good friend Rebecca Hogue, discussing how we are managing our wellbeing and we thought we should crowdsource more publicly beyond what we shared together in that unrecorded session. So, obviously, … Continue reading →
About that obsession you’ve got with students turning on their cameras during class. I understand why you’ve got it. I’d like to help you deal with it. I say “deal with it” because many students complain to me that they … Continue reading →
How have you approached faculty, or how would you approach faculty who are obsessed with students cheating? This is a question that appeared in the Q&A of my recent OLC Innovate keynote. To start, I think if you have rampant … Continue reading →
Note: I was advised to keep this unpublished until after my keynote so my blog doesn’t crash. So will schedule it to show after I am done. So my keynote is Mon, June 15 at 4pm Cairo time (10am EDT/2pm … Continue reading →
Back in January, I thought I would be keynoting (virtually) the OSU Innovate conference in May (not to be confused with the OLC Innovate conference, which I’m keynoting in a few days). I had put out the tweet above to … Continue reading →
Two things inspired this post, and I want to invite folks to engage with both of these questions with a lens of equity and care. First, while working on a survey at my institution, a colleague said, “why should we … Continue reading →
Someone asked me on Twitter if I had an updated version of my Pedagogy of Care Gone Massive article on Hybrid Pedagogy for COVID-19 times. I didn’t have a particular update to the particular points in the article, but I … Continue reading →
I am very proud of this work I did with Daniela Gachago and Nicola Pallitt (thank you both for inviting me to be part of this team!). I am proud of how we used collaborative autoethnography to help build towards … Continue reading →
