Online teaching presents a unique professional challenge.
You may interact with hundreds of students (and a handful of colleagues) every week.
You may send dozens of emails, and return piles of carefully graded student work.
But it’s very difficult to know whether your efforts are actually making a difference, isn’t it?
For the longest time, I could see no way to connect online teaching with Twitter.
Twitter was like some annoying, large exotic bird.
Oh, I could hear it squawking, alright.
I could see it hopping around my backyard.
But I was far too busy with my online teaching load to bother making friends with a wild blue bird…
In the middle of a busy day of online teaching, the calming sound of a trickling stream may be impossible to imagine.
There’s no room for restful imagery today.
Instead, you furiously multi-task between multiple student demands, administrative responsibilities, and a large pile of unmarked work waiting to be graded….
When you teach online, you’re always looking for ways to make your job easier, and your students’ experiences more satisfying.
Humor is an online teaching tool that can help you achieve both of those goals.
But this tool is more powerful than it looks. It pays to think carefully about how you’ll use it…
Online training courses have long been plagued by a high student drop out rate.
This issue keeps plenty of online teachers up at night.
It’s an ongoing challenge to keep learners interested, on track, and motivated to complete their courses.
And there are many strategic ways to do that….
Online teachers draw from a deep well of teaching skills every single day.
From the very second you fire up your computer in the morning, you’re furiously multi-tasking.
And you’re often using several specialist teaching skills at the same time.
