Congratulations, if you're teaching in the Day school, you've made it to the end of fall classes 2020! In this email we'll be sharing favorite teaching and learning resources to check out this winter. These have been my go-to's this semester; I hope they help you dig into the topics that matter to you. Enjoy, and look for our newsletter to start back up again in January 2021 - Abby Machson-Carter, SSU Instructional Designer.

Tips for Teaching Professors - this brief, informative newsletter was the inspiration for our teaching tips email. Useful, timely and well-researched, this newsletter/blog shares some of the best articles, suggestions and ideas around higher ed teaching and learning on the internet.
Lecture Breakers Podcast - this podcast, while offering ideas for breaking up lectures, also features guests showcasing all kinds of innovative higher ed teaching, from Team-Based Learning (with 900 students!), to Zoom, to Hy-Flex, to community-building. Also has a blog.
Community Building Activities - from Equity Unbound and OneHE. Community building is crucial to creating trust in an online class; this website offers many ways to do it. Put together by a group of online-learning innovators, it sorts activities by topic, like introductory activities, warm-ups, or ongoing engagement.
Teaching Tools: Active Learning while Physically Distancing - This collaborative document lists high-impact active learning strategies, along with ways to use them in online synchronous, asynchronous, and physically-distanced face-to-face modalities. Hosted by Louisiana State University.
Cult of Pedagogy - this website/blog/podcast is focused on K12 teaching, but also has plenty that applies to higher ed instruction - including great online engagement strategies.
Twitter - while social media is known for being full of inside jokes, conspiracy theories and cat pictures, many educators use it to connect and build powerful professional learning networks (it's where I found all the other resources on this list!). I've found educators on Twitter to be incredibly generous with time and advice. If you're interested, check out Jennifer Gonzalez's advice for educators on getting started with Twitter - or you can follow Abby to see the resources she shares.