I share how my Introduction to Poetry students create a multimodal critical edition, a project that blends digital creativity and literary analysis while teaching them to think and act like editors in the twenty-first-century classroom.

I share three strategies — global feedback sheets, lesson plan calendar blocking, and Canva templates — that can help any faculty member survive a heavy teaching load for the first time.

OERs provide an extraordinary opportunity to circulate innovative teaching practices, amplify faculty voices, and expand educational equity. But doing so well requires intention. After all, open isn’t just about access. It’s about authorship, agency, and the story we tell about how we teach.

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.

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.