41 Stories Categorized "General Stories" (page 2 of 4)

A general collection of stories from anywhere in the world

FotoFika 2020 Covid 19 Teaching Resources

During the March 2020 closure of university art classes, photographer and professor Betsy Schneider posted a call on Facebook titled “Falling Forward” (a copy is available on the…

Online class from Nepal during Covid 19

Hello everybody , It’s me Bibas Thapa from Hetauda, Nepal. Here I am sharing about my online class. On 24th April 2020 , Nepal government declared lockdown.  All…

The Semester of Living Dangerously

A Pandemic Diary Project for Housebound Students, Faculty and Staff of SUNY Oneonta. This site is aimed at collecting diary entries that will provide a historical record of…

How Teaching and Learning Centres Saved Higher Ed during Covid 19

Kathleen Bortolin, a Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist at  Vancouver Island University shares in a blog post the effort she and her colleagues put in to support faculty…

A Story About Stories

Is it extraordinary? I don’t think so but the fact that so many educators are experiencing the same things made me think it was an opportune time to…

Interview with Ally Hoffman & Dana Bjornson – Education Professionals on Remote Learning

As part of an ongoing video series, Dana Laur from internet safety consultant The White Hatter  shared a recent interview with two secondary educators about their own adjustment…

Eagle 2 Eagle Facebook Group

On March 28, 2020 Houston Community College Director of Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ravi Brahmbhatt, created a Facebook group, called Eagle 2 Eagle. The group was modeled after…

Learner-teacher partnership in times of COVID-19: A community poll to share practices and perspectives

Contribute to this effort to survey the landscape of “learner-teacher” partnerships during the COVID-19 time: This is a ‘community poll’ to open up space for people to share…

CORontonine Corps: A Global Dance Project

Dance instructors from around the world, at any level, are invited to share any project, media, writing about teaching and performing dance during the COVID-19 event. Ths inspiration…

Afghan Robotics Team

Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Design Inexpensive Ventilator Out of Car Parts

The Afghan girls’ robotics team has joined the fight against coronavirus by designing an inexpensive ventilator out of automobile parts! The team members from Herat created the prototype…

Virginia Community College System Instructional Designer Hats

Freakin’ Awesome Instructional Designers Keep Learning in Motion in Virginia

23 Colleges + 10K Faculty + 30K Courses + 240K Students = 12 hour days for Virginia’s Community Colleges’ (VCCS) Instructional Designers.  Each one received a token of…

Image of a fenceline in the country, early spring, no snow but the grass is brown and the tree is bare of leaves

There is no Story Here

I don’t have a story. The transition of our research centre from an office building to working from home went  quite smoothly. There were some issues with getting…