In this eighth episode of the miniseries Going Virtual, the Notorious Pedagogues interview Maria Mejia-Tucker, the inspiration for the miniseries. We talk about how Maria, an experienced instructional designer from both higher education and the corporate world, is thinking and reflecting about the response to COVID19. We talk flexibility, going virtual, and avoiding "Groundhog Day."

In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross are joined by Dr. Dana Morrison (or just "Dana" because she's that popular) to discuss the current debate surrounding synchronous and asynchronous teaching/learning. Dr. Morrison is an assistant professor at West Chester University in the Department of Educational Foundations & Policy Studies.

To learn more about UDL (Universal Design for Learning), see the CAST website on UDL Guidelines.

To see just two examples of the mixed messages being shared at the moment, see the NYTimes article "Everybody Ready for the Big Migration to Online College? Actually, No" and this chart that has been circulating for a few weeks.

In the second of our theoretical focused episodes, Episode 6 presents and discusses TPACK - a model of teacher knowledge that includes technology as an important component.

Additional Resources for TPACK

We turn in this episode (Episode 5) to the theory/framework perspective. We discuss SAMR, an acronym that helps teachers think through various ways of integrating technology. 

Additional Resources on SAMR 

The focus of this fourth episode in our special series Going Virtual is Zoom, a video conferencing tool that many higher ed faculty are using to facilitate the transition to virtual teaching and learning. 

Helpful Links: 

In the third episode in this mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19, Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross discuss initial tools and apps that are being recommended to help facilitate this process. These tech tools include:

Twitter Users to Follow

(This list was originally put together by Dr. Schmidt for our secondary English preservice teachers so it is skewed towards secondary English)

Organizations to Follow

Hashtags to Follow

This is the second episode in a mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19. Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross discuss taking care of and being in communication with their students.

This is the first episode in a mini-series chronicling the NP's process of "Going Virtual" given world events surrounding COVID-19. Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross process the past few days and sketch out a number of topics to discuss in future episodes.

For specific information about WCUPA and COVID-10, see https://www.wcupa.edu/healthNotices/

This episode updates our episode from last season on the Book Club to include the new and improved WRH325 Book Club assignment, this time with Shakespeare! Have a listen to learn more about the Spring 2020 Book Club.

Students are using MyShakespeare.com to read Romeo & Juliet, and you can click here to see the YAL Book Club book pairings.

In this brief episode we provide an update on our research and inform listeners about what they need to do if they want to participate.

To learn more, visit https://sites.google.com/view/npbook/home