In my previous blog, I talked about how during this Covid-19 pandemic, and as we have come back to campus, staff, students, and educators alike have had to handle increased pressures, stress, and diminishing mental health. (Can anyone else hear Luisa Madrigal’s “Surface Pressure” from Encanto in their head right now?) “Pressure like a drip,… Read more »
Many instructors have been looking for better methods to engage students online, especially when it comes to asking for more than passively watch videos. Placing engagement opportunities in our lectures, demos, and other training materials has been tricky to say the least. However, PlayPosit may have the solution. PlayPosit is an interactive video tool within… Read more »
Do you have a student who mid-semester stopped showing up to class, and yet they are still enrolled? You have emailed them numerous times expressing concern and you have not heard back? Consider the following next steps: 1) Record your recommendations and observations in the Student Engagement Roster (SER), and 2) Submit a Care Report… Read more »
We know that instructors (and their students) are concerned about making up missed classes. This is particularly true for lab courses where it is not always easy to provide students with extra opportunities to complete missed labs and/or for students to take advantage of them. We have asked several IU lab instructors, as well as… Read more »
Increasing numbers of campus events open with land acknowledgements that recognize Indigenous histories of the lands on which IUB is built, but what do you know about the history of Indigenous people in this area, or about our current indigenous student population? Here are three videos that instructors—and students—can use to enhance understanding of the… Read more »
This week’s blog was written by Sean Sidky, the WTS Dissertation Group graduate assistant. For many graduate students who have completed the coursework stage of their degrees, the disruptions and challenges to their research trajectories due to the ongoing pandemic have been insurmountable. Continuing travel restrictions, for example, make it difficult or impossible to access… Read more »
