The Journey Starts Here
By Ann Obermann PhD LCSW As we are entering the final weeks before our presidential elections, I ask you to consider taking great care in planning your lessons and activities for the weeks preceding and following the election. In other Continue reading Issue 2.9: Election Season: Intentionally planning online activities to foster constructive communication
As part of your Capstone course for the MSW program in Social Work, you may be presenting trainings or engaging with organizations in an online format. The work you are doing is important, and you’ll want to do your best Continue reading Tips for Developing your Capstone Project Online
Presented by Dr. Amanda Marsh Baranski There are many reasons to use videos in education. Videos can be used for lecture, in lecture, pre-lecture, to connect with students, provide feedback, to show how to complete a task, etc. Since we Continue reading Issue 2.8: Making and editing fun and creative videos in iMovie
Midterm Evaluations You may have seen Jess’ email this morning inviting all faculty to have their students participate in a midterm evaluation. This idea might be new to some of you, or you aren’t sure how or why these evaluations Continue reading Issue 2.7: Midterm Course Evaluations
Can you believe it’s week 6 already?! That’s plenty of time to be settling in to the semester, and also plenty of time to start being overwhelmed with grading as we move into reviewing the first major assignments of the Continue reading Issue 2.6: Faculty Support Week!
By Kristin Danhoff, Ph.D There is a lot to manage in the classroom [campus and virtual] in non-pandemic times. Given the increase in need, complexity, and emotional responses to the multiple pandemics we have inside and outside our institutional doors, Continue reading Issue 2.5: Working with TAs in Online Learning
By Ann Obermann, Ph.D Introduction Talking about discussion boards seems to bring up more emotion then most online learning and teaching topics. Hate is a strong word and I hear it used in connection to discussion board learning weekly from Continue reading Issue 2.4: Discussion Boards?!?
Welcome to Digital Dialogues! As a reminder, we have some great regular support options for you each week! Becky has drop in hours on Tuesday 4-5, Thursday 1-2, and Friday 9-10. Just drop in to her Zoom room to connect Continue reading Issue 2.3: All Things Video!
Welcome to Digital Dialogues! Teaching Tip This week is a guest post from Kristen Atkinson ahead of her amazing department training session this coming Wednesday! Building Community in an Online Environment K. Atkinson, MSW, Ph,D As you’re reading this, fall Continue reading Issue 2.2: Building Community in an Online Environment
Welcome to Digital Dialogues! It’s the start of fall semester, and that means we are ready to start regular publication of our Digital Dialogues newsletters for the MSU Denver department of Social Work. We are excited to support you in Continue reading Issue 2.1: LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Online Classes