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An Introductory Tour of #KTeachDev2020
K’s “online backbone” plan for fall courses is designed to provide the flexibility we need to keep community members safe while allowing students to continue to experience the hallmark features of a K education, whatever the public health situation brings. Designing effective courses that meet those goals is the singular challenge of our lives as educators. This year, in keeping with the challenges […]
Distance Learning on Insta: Using Instagram Posts & Stories to Co-create and Share Student Ideas — Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Here I share how I used Instagram as a replacement for slideshows and more traditional Moodle posts, allowing students to engage aesthetically and analytically with course materials in ways that felt personal and accessible. I’m sure we all have salient memories of March 13, that final day of classes at K when we knew coronavirus […]
Granting Access to Your Stream Videos
After you upload your video to Streams, you need to choose who will be able to access it. You can allow any user with a kzoo.edu account to see it, or you can limit access to individuals or groups of your choosing. Perhaps the most common way to do that is to grant access only […]
Meet the TLW 2020 New Faculty Members
Mika Kennedy, English James Nemiroff, Spanish Gamze Evcimen, Sociology/Anthropology Daniela Arias-Rotondo, Chemistry Marilyn Evans, Classics Petra Watzke, German Studies Isabel Pena y Valenzuela, Biology Manfa Sanogo, French Shiwha Park, Chemistry Cyndy Garcia-Weyandt, Critical Ethnic Studies
Designing for Connection and Belonging: Productive Discomfort — Oliver Baez Bendorf
This is the third of a three-part series Writing as a Social Practice Small Group Workshops Productive Discomfort Productive Discomfort There were certain poems that I did not understand… but going on the discussion forums really helped me understand [those texts]. I liked the element of responding to two different responses from students each week […]
Designing for Connection and Belonging: Small Group Workshops — Oliver Baez Bendorf
This is the second of a three-part series Writing as a Social Practice Small Group Workshops Productive Discomfort Small Group Workshops The exchange of feedback is at the core of a writing workshop, yet there is never any guarantee that conventional frameworks for group critique will transform into conversation. The typical MFA workshop method (which […]
Designing for Connection and Belonging: Writing as a Social Practice — Oliver Baez Bendorf
This is the first of a three-part series Writing as a Social Practice Small Group Workshops Productive Discomfort Writing as a Social Practice I was fascinated with the earliest poems I read and heard that gave insight into all the secret territories of the human spirit, our relationships with one another. Somehow those glimpses felt […]
Meet the TLW 2020 Faculty Mentors
Kathryn Sederberg, German Studies Rick Barth, Mathematics & Assistant Provost Christina Carroll, History Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Religion Elizabeth Manwell, Classics Santiago Salinas, Biology Brittany Liu, Psychology
A Team Meeting about Joining and Running Team Meetings – Alyce Brady, Josh Moon, and Rick Barth
Everything You Wanted to Know About Teams but Were Afraid to Ask! This video features a meeting in which we discuss how to start or join a meeting in Microsoft Teams, how to participate through features such as raising a hand, muting and unmuting video or audio, or chatting on the side, how to share […]