In today's post, I'm exploring some of the teaching platforms I have used, their pros and cons, as a preface to a future post wherein I will be exploring BlackBoard 9 in real-time. When I first began teaching online in the summer of 2004, it...
Teaching in Pajamas
By Rich Russell Before seeing the new movie The Social Network this past weekend, I first read the article on co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. His own Facebook.
By Rich Russell As an English teacher, no matter how many times you have taught a class, fussed and fretted with the lesson plans like a nervous parent, there will.
Have you ever logged in online, to find five "private" emails awaiting you, all from the same student? Did your stomach sink a little? In my experience, the types of online students who require the most care from professors are often those who would do...
There's some great content waiting for readers this week on AdjunctNation.com. If you are a site pass holder, no doubt you've checked out the E-Zine content already. My favorite piece.
By Rich Russell Honestly, I don't remember my teachers in high school or college (as an undergraduate) using rubrics, and so if they did, I certainly never saw them. The.
A new academic year and a new direction for the AdjunctNation.com "Teaching in Pajamas," with new bloggers of whom I am one. I am going to be focusing on some of the nuts and bolts of teaching online, including topics like: the pros and cons...
By Rich Russell In Blackboard there is a Roster tool, where students (and the professor) can post pictures of themselves, and I encourage (but do not require) students to also.
This first week of the semester in my online classes, students are required to post an introduction of themselves. Some students write lyric, Dickensian accounts of their lives up to.
I have defended ABC College many times on this blog, despite the fact that many of my colleagues have been unhappy with them. I have never before felt micromanaged and I have never felt pressure to give good grades (common complaints that I have heard)....
