Monthly Archives: August 2020

survey results are in…

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Jeff Allred

I’ve doubled down this term on something I’ve done sporadically in my face to face teaching: surveying students online. It’s a good idea for lots of things: figuring out what they know, taking the temperature on work load, etc. I’m … Continue reading →

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Tips for Students: Distance Learning in the time of COVID-19

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Jeff Allred

Just a quick share of a splendid collection of tips and resources for students amid the Covid pandemic. It provides constructive ideas for everything from individual self-care to study skills for courses to links to CUNY- and city-wide resources for … Continue reading →

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first day gambit

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Jeff Allred

I’m sure we all have a portfolio of first-day shtick to ease the transition for students and help us learn names. But this is tougher in a virtual environment. Standing on the shoulders of i fabbri migliori like our own … Continue reading →

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Zoom guidelines for students

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Jeff Allred

Real quick-like, I wanted to share a one-pager I created for my students on how to Zoom effectively. Here goes, and here’s a link to the document: feel free to steal or adapt.   Zoom Discussion Guidelines We will do … Continue reading →

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Need an onramp? The GC has an onramp…

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Jeff Allred

Many of us are scrambling to figure out the fully online mode of teaching now. Whatever we might have done in March (and I was away, myself), it wasn’t likely to represent our most, ahhh, composed and planful pedagogy. There … Continue reading →

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Austerity Blues

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Jeff Allred

As you may have noticed, all of CUNY is operating on a shoestring these days. Barefoot, even. That means that we’ve lost funding for a Director of Undergraduate Studies position and thus have no one to mind this particular store. … Continue reading →

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