Evidence for eyes and ears: teaching sentence style online
When re-designing workshops for online delivery, I try to exploit the auditory and visual potential of the platform to enhance what I’m communicating.
Stylish segues
To make your writing flow, take the outgoing idea from the end of a paragraph and show how it connects to the idea in the next one.
Using Zoom to encourage peer learning
Use your Zoom workshops to create space for dialogue, for sharing experiences, and for building relationships with others facing the same challenges.
Breaks with benefits
If you’re studying online for longer than usual, take some five-minute breathers that will give your mind a break and might even lead to great ideas.
Writing a journal article: bouncing back from rejection
if you or one of your students or colleagues has faced rejection, help them harness their intrinsic motivation to bounce back.
Wrestling with the question
Wrestling with the question indicates that you’re not accepting the usual assumptions and you’re up for a battle of ideas.
Keeping up the energy
Learning and teaching online isn’t just about moving a face-to-face workshop to Zoom.
Working with your word limit
Cherise Saywell When coaching students nervous about the blank page, I’ve often used the word limit as a technique for getting started. A big project, such as a PhD thesis, is less intimidating once you break it down. For example,…
