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I was telling a colleague the other day about my Literacy class.

“We have certain expectations,” I said.

Will laughed.

“Say no more. I know exactly what you’re talking about,” he said.

It’s true, isn’t it? We have unchec...

In part one of this post, “digital duct tape” was defined as the act of creating or improvising problem-solving with technology tools to solve a teaching challenge. The following are a few more tools and methods th...

Asking students about their everyday life and engaging them in small talk is a key ritual in my class—whether in-person or online. It helps me build trust with my students and alleviate L2 learners’ anxiety. Halfway through this summer semester, during a routine task in a zoom class, a student—let’s call her Danny, did not respond to my ca...

Recent training experiences with fully online and blended learning instructors have inspired me. Instructors asked if there were any alternate activity types for their lower-level learners. They asked for short, intuitive, game-like, reinforcement activities.

These questions motivated me to share a wealth of learning opportunities for t...