Are your students experiencing Zoom fatigue? Do you feel exhausted from participating in web-based meetings and teaching virtual class sessions? Is there anything you can do to reduce the stresses of online engagement and help students be more successful in…
COVID-19 Teaching Resources LibGuide
Colgate Librarians, in collaboration with faculty members, have created a repository of resources to support teaching about COVID-19. This LibGuide is intended to support the gathering and sharing of information resources pertinent to teaching about many aspects of the pandemic.…
Thinking About Assessment
Post contributed by Eddie Watkins With midterms approaching, many of us are thinking about assessment, and ways we can do so thoughtfully in a mix of remote and in-person settings. We draw your attention to an interesting article on two-stage…
Mid-Term Feedback on Learning
Post contributed from the Center for Learning, Teaching & Research Gathering feedback from students about how a course is going during the middle of the semester is always a good idea, and that will be more true than ever this…
Remote Learning and the Lab Sciences
Post by Ana Jimenez, Ken Belanger, Catherine Cardelús, Jason Meyers, Julie Chanatry, Patricia Jue, Anne Perring, Joe Levy, Di Keller, Rebecca Metzler, and Hans Benze. An area deeply affected by the pivot to remote learning has been the laboratory sciences.…
Teaching In-Person and Remote: Reflections on the OUS Summer Institute
The OUS Summer Institute presented some of the first opportunities for faculty and students to engage both remotely and in-person since the campus closed in March 2020. Please listen in as Colgate faculty members April Baptiste, Engda Hagos, Jason Myers,…
Alternating Synchronous Class Meetings
Post by Krista Ingram & Eddie Watkins The concept presented in this CLTR Morning Grind session defined “platooning” or “staggering” as dividing a class into smaller groups / parts for more effective in-person or remote learning. A recording of this session is…
Quick Fix: Adding Voice to PowerPoint
Post by Scott Kraly (Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience) Occasionally an instructor wishes to accommodate the needs of a student who was unable to attend or view a lecture, and is unable to access a Zoom recording of the…
