Screenside Chats feature online practitioners as they discuss their experiences, strategies, and tools building and interacting in pedagogically sound online learning environments. In this Screenside Chat, we examine how to use Curriculum Maps to guide instruction, help personalize learning, and clarify the scope and sequence of a course for students and families.  

Screenside Chats feature online practitioners as they discuss their experiences, strategies, and tools building and interacting in pedagogically sound online learning environments. In this Screenside Chat, we explore how a Universal Design for Learning Checklist can be used to facilitate conversations between Special and General Educators to increase accessibility in virtual courses. The UDL Checklist… Read more »

Screenside Chats feature online practitioners as they discuss their experiences, strategies, and tools building and interacting in pedagogically sound online learning environments. In this Screenside Chat, IU High School principal, Dr. Rebecca Itow, introduces the Responsive Online Pedagogy model. As a “responsive” model, the tool explaining our pedagogy is updated as students’ needs shift. See… Read more »

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, discusses how teachers can use their existing experiences, expertise, and tools to transition from brick-and-mortar to online teaching.

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, shares how she helps students think about what they know and how learning from their peers shaped their own thinking.

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School English teacher, Courtney Gaylord, discusses why students have difficulty attending to content in online courses and shares her strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, shares her strategies for facilitating opportunities for students to engage with peer work without having them all be online at the same time.

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School social studies teacher, Christine Hitchcock, offers suggestions for using visual cues to give your course a feel of consistency and improve students’ experience in an online course.

In this Screenside Chat, IU High School English teacher, Courtney Gaylord, explains why students don’t always read lesson instructions and how to change that!