Not Returning Void: Effectively Teaching Homiletics OnlinePosted on November 15, 2017 by Rob O'LynnTeaching preaching online is, essentially, no different than teaching it in-seat! The only difference is the location of students.
Tracking Social Media Footprints in the Online ClassPosted on October 3, 2015 by Rob O'LynnTwitter has taken over the classroom…and you’re to blame! Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. However we cannot escape the reality that we are in a social media era, even in the ivory towers of academia. And, as those who shape the minds of tomorrow’s leaders, we need to embrace the technology revolution.
Sleep in Academia: The Brain We’ve GotPosted on April 21, 2014 by A+ Brooke Lester, Curator(See also Part One: Waking Up to the Problem.) It’s sometimes said in “recovery” circles that “You can’t fix the brain you’ve got with the brain you’ve got.” But let’s see if we can’t try to think clearly—our crippling sleep deficit notwithstanding—about the brain. Anybody who can manage a Google or YouTube search can discover…
Performance and the Classroom: Part 2—Community of LearnersPosted on January 24, 2014 by David RhoadsYou never know where ideas might come from to enhance the teaching-learning experience—a choir concert, a kindergarten teacher sharing her philosophy of child development, a grade school instructor excited about a new way to teach math, a middle school tutor for special education, a CEO talking about new structures of management….
Why Don’t You Just Tell Me What Grade You Want?Posted on January 13, 2014 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorWant an “A”? Okay. Shake on it.In “contract grading,” the student and instructor agree at the outset what grade the student is going for, and what is needed to earn that grade. Of course, this could describe the point of many syllabi. What distinguishes “contract grading” (at least the examples I have seen) is that the student decides which assignments she will do and which assignments she won’t do. Also, in most examples I have seen, the work is assessed on a “satisfactory/unsatisfactory” basis. I have been looking closely at “contract grading,” and am planning to implement some version of it for my 2014–15 courses…