[Linganth] helping colleagues teach online courses

[Woolard, Kathryn]

In the spirit of Ilana’s great suggestion, I’m forwarding this link to a memo on online teaching strategies from a Harvard law professor, William (Terry) Fisher. He’s been teaching an online course for 8 years (my son had a hand in this and shared it with me, but Prof. Fisher says that it can be widely shared ). The tech-savvy among you may find it basic, some details might not work for you, but it’s a straightforward presentation that has some useful points for people who like me have less experience with this medium.

http://tfisherip.org/emergency-online-pedagogy/

Good luck to all of you who didn’t get a chance to retire before this challenge hit! Take care and stay well.

Kit Woolard

Kathryn A. Woolard
Research Professor/Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology, 0532
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532
kwoolard at ucsd.edu<mailto:kwoolard at ucsd.edu>

Edward Sapir Book Prize winner 2017:  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us



From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Ilana Gershon <imgershon at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 9:44 AM
To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: [Linganth] helping colleagues teach online courses

Dear Colleagues,
Many of us are faced with the daunting prospect of transforming our classes into online classes in a matter of days,
without enough time or training.    We are going to be turning to Zoom and other video conferencing technologies
which leave much to be desired.  We are also going to face problems that many of our students needs courses
to be asynchronous for a variety of factors.

I want to suggest that we start helping each other out by visiting each other's classes virtually.   If you as an
instructor are faced with creating asynchronous material, perhaps you can record conversations with authors
of assigned texts when necessary.

 Please add your name to the list on the Google doc below if you are willing to "visit" classes.   We can also collect videos and links to the online exercises that we each are developing on the Google doc as well.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1auKT5s4HJ6j7rbnxpE4ysHt-WRHwntH1ooTZ8IATbyM/edit?usp=sharing

Best,
Ilana

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