
On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
3 Back-to-School Canvas Tips
I consistently receive comments in my student evaluations about how much they appreciate the intentional and transparent design of my Canvas pages and how organized it keeps us. I’m sharing three tips (and some custom code!) to level up your Canvas sites and improve your own students’ experience.
3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators
I’m sharing three ways I use Canva to advertise my courses, customize my LMS, and create easily editable and shareable course materials.
Why I Teach Book Cover Design (& How You Can Too with My Free Resource)
This week, I am wrapping up teaching an eight-week, online version of my “Putting the Lit in Literacies” Intro to Fiction course here at IU Bloomington. To celebrate the occasion, I want to share an updated look at one of my favorite summative assessments.
3 Digital Tools to Power Your Fall Course Design
Whether you are a faculty member looking for course design inspiration or an educational developer seeking new strategies to support your colleagues, we can all benefit from tools that can make the course design process more flexible, collaborative, and student-centered.
All About Multimodal Literacy: an Empower Your Learning Module
This spring, I was a finalist for the FACET Innovate Award in the Creative Uses of Online Tools category for one of the first installments in my Empower Your Learning module series.
Paper Balls & Digital Literary Excavation
This week, I’m sharing the active learning strategy I use to improve students’ ability to write thoughtful discussion questions, as well as a look into excavating “The Nineveh Bull” in my intro to fiction course using the social annotation tool Hypothesis.
Lesson Plan Databases & Paragraph Maps
This week, I’m sharing how I use Notion to organize my lesson plans, as well as a brief glimpse at paragraph mapping, one of my latest open educational resources.
- Canva
- creative technologies
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- creativity
- career management
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- walking the walk
- career documents
- active learning
- lms
- BYTE
- week in the life
- Adobe Express
- course design
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- digital portfolios
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- Interview
- reflection
- lesson planning
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- OER
- NTT
- workshops
- poetry
- collaboration
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- assessment
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- creative confidence
- social annotation
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- learning outcomes
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- podcast
- design
- authentic assessment
- scholarly teaching
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- service