13 Days to Creating a Successful Hybrid College Class, Day 7

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Oops!  I bet you are wondering where the Thirteen Days to Creating a Hybrid College Class, Day 6’s blog post is. During our winter break, I emailed, graded and created lessons for the students. I never stopped “hybrid teaching” for more than a day.  We visited friends and it was surprisingly convenient to take a […]

Thirteen Days to Creating a Successful Hybrid College Class, Day Five

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The flipped classroom:  Kindness through Christmas cookies. If you’ve been following the blog this week, you have taken my journey right along with me as I navigate the “flipped classroom” waters.
Today, something interesting occurred.  The students talked to me!

Thirteen Days to Creating a Successful Hybrid College Class, Day Three

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Day Three Let’s talk about forum discussions in a college hybrid speech communications class. Today, the Christmas cookies hit the fan so to speak….. Picture this: It is a cold, grey December day. There’s chill in the air, the kind that nearly freezes you to the bone. Typical mid western weather in December. Oh joy. […]

Thirteen Days to Creating a Successful Hybrid College Class, Day Two

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Flipping a class isn’t easy.
Today, I spent about two and a half hours organizing everything for tomorrow–power point for chapters’ answers, college level speech example and outline of the speech, creating another power point with examples of notecards to coincide today’s speech and tweak a forum post.

Thirteen Days to Creating a Successful Hybrid College Class Day One

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Day One A bit earlier this semester, I was asked to create an intensive hybrid speech class.  It sounded fun to me.  (I know not everyone would enjoy creating curriculum, but there you go…) Gulp. Since we are just sitting around here sort of waiting for Christmas festivities with our family (does everyone else feel […]

The A-List Way to Becoming a Fabulous Teacher

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New teachers wonder what are the secrets to becoming an A-List teacher.