Tag: online pedagogy
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The Problem with My Lecture Videos
I thought I’d start out this semester by offering students a number of 10 to 12 minute videos on different topics. It did not turn out that way. Most of the videos I’ve made have been 20 minutes or more. And for my Argumentation course, the videos are always around 40 minutes. I’m not sure…
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Is a Livestream Class a Good Idea? Doesn’t Seem to be for Me
Not a big fan of the livestreamed class, but I did one anyway yesterday. I don’t really care for the livestream as there’s a lot of stuff that gets in the way of teaching here. Typically I could do a 10 to 15 minute video on a reading and be fine with it. But the…
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The Maelstrom, Online Pedagogy, and Rhetoric
Following in the footsteps of Marshall McLuhan, I have used Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Maelstrom” as a way to describe rhetorical strategy, kairos, and how argument really works away from all the too-firm theories that are floating around out there. Now I’m thinking that the Maelstrom is a useful metaphor for universities and…
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Doing What Works in Online University Teaching
My last post was about losing the thread, and losing the focus of what the course is about in the sea of technology available to us. I pretty much lost my way 2 days ago working on these very nice powerpoints for my courses. I realized I was spending hours on one reading. How was…
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The Trap of SlideWare in Preparing Online Instruction
Yesterday I started making Google Slides presentations for various reading assignments for my courses. I planned to video some lectures with these, but also providing them as documents on the learning management system (we use Canvas in my shop). As I started making the slides, the amount of work I needed to do kept increasing.…
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I like to make videos
This is a video I made for my online public speaking class addressing some of the things that after two formal presentations they still need to work on. The biggest problem in teaching speech and debating is the problem of performing to teacher expectations which expect students to exceed teacher expectations. This is the problem…
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