Contributed by Scott Kraly, Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience We are at the midterm of another pandemic-flavored semester. Again remote and masked-up face-to-face instruction constrains communications with our students. Many instructors will pause at midterm to learn…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable: Academic Dishonesty
Session Overview:In this session, Colgate faculty members share their experiences in addressing academic dishonesty in the remote environment. The discussion explores the perceived increase in academic dishonesty during the past couple of semesters, as well as adjustments to assessment approaches…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable – Thoughts on Design for Remote Assessment
Session Overview:In this session, several Colgate faculty members share their experiences in designing and adjusting assessment practices for the remote environment. The use of the Google Assignment feature, rubrics for focused feedback, encouraging reflection and feedback on assessments, and engaging…
“I Actually Like Teaching on Zoom”
Contributed by Jennifer Brice “Surprisingly, the discussions in my video classes have been better than those in the live era,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen in this New York Times op-ed about teaching on Zoom (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/zoom-video-school-teaching.html). He acknowledges the trade-offs (warmth and…
Resources for Building Community
Our teaching and our students’ learning benefit from a feeling of community in our classrooms. The sooner that feeling is created the better, but getting there can be difficult when our students are learning remotely, quarantined, and experiencing a mix of…
Distracted Minds: Your Classroom Can Be a Retreat in Dark Times
In a recent post in the Chronicle of Higher Education, James Lang offers an encouraging message about the ways in which faculty members can create a course environment that values attention and counters the many distractions of this traumatic year.…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable: Reading Remotely
In this session, a panel of Colgate colleagues from the Arts & Humanities, the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and University Studies, share how they cracked the conundrum of teaching texts in the remote classroom. Their techniques range from the…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable – Lessons Learned from a Semester of Pandemic Teaching
In this session, several Colgate faculty members share their experiences teaching during the Fall ‘20 semester. Topics include course design, use of technology (e.g., Slack, podcasting, and collaborative documents), effective practices and student perspectives. Moderator: Karen Harpp, Professor of Geology and…
Brian Beatty – Enabling Student Success with HyFlex Courses
On December 10, 2020, Brian Beatty, Associate Professor of Instructional Technologies in the Department of Equity, Leadership Studies and Instructional Technologies at San Francisco State University, facilitated a talk at Colgate University entitled, Enabling Student Success with HyFlex Courses. An…
“Liberating Structures” for Zoom Class Meetings
All courses are about to shift to fully remote instruction after the Thanksgiving break, meaning more synchronous class sessions. Many faculty and students may be feeling “zoomed out” and yearning for ways to re-energize Zoom meetings as we near the…
