On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
Responding to Student Evaluations Mid-Academic Year
Despite their flaws, engaging with formal student evaluations is part of being a scholarly teacher. In this post, I share several quick tips for responding to mid-year feedback when there isn’t time for a major course design overhaul.
Do You Need to Write Better Course Descriptions?
Celebrate Open Access Week with a free toolkit for writing stronger, more engaging course descriptions that attract students to your course and discipline.
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.
Teaching Composition with Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe died on this day sixty-three years ago, on August 4, 1962. Ever since, she has remained an enigmatic, spectral presence in the public imagination. These days, she haunts my composition classroom.
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.
- creative technologies
- Canva
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- creativity
- career management
- lesson planning
- walking the walk
- OER
- course design
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- active learning
- BYTE
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- Adobe Express
- career documents
- poetry
- digital portfolios
- Interview
- lms
- week in the life
- NTT
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- data
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- data-driven instruction
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- learning outcomes
- NCTE
- podcast
- workshops
- scholarly teaching
- collaboration
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- student feedback
- National Day on Writing
- feedback
- course observations
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- social annotation
- canvas
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- exit ticket
- conference
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- design
- canva
- authentic assessment
- grading
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- course descriptions
- service
- course evaluations