Category: Teaching Tips

Teaching tips, tools, and hacks as well as descriptions of lessons

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Feedback Loops

One of the lessons I learned during our first season of pandemic teaching and learning was that I needed to…

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Orientation

Classes start tomorrow and I’m struggling. I’m worried that the baggage my students are dragging into my hybrid and online…

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Adapting Your Blackboard Shell

Over the course of the 15+ years I have taught online and hybrid classes I have experimented with many of…

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Teaching Writers To Consider Their Rhetorical Situation

Perhaps one of the most frustrating parts of teaching writing is that too many people (including people who should really…

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Four-Square Writing Plan

When I embraced my Less is More philosophy I thought long and hard about the key structures that I wanted…

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Why I’m HyFlexing My HyperDocs This Fall

In which I take you on a tortuous journey through my thinking, planning, and preparing to teach college writing classes…