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Below are all syndicated blog posts from the 9X9X25 Writing Challenge. See also the list of active blogs.

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Digital Teaching: A Community of Practice

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I am delighted to participate in one of the formal Community of Practice groups established by the School of Contemporary Teaching and Learning (SCTL) at St. Lawrence College. Digital Teaching Practices is a particularly fitting topic this year, and I feel I can say without fear of contradiction, that we have all learned a great deal during the last 12 months in terms of teaching in an online world. Clearly online is here to stay; there was never any doubt […]

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How to R

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If you found this useful, how about a round of applause? I forget how to do a lot in R when I only do it once every year or two. I also wanted a place to keep track of my favorite packages. So: Table of Contents Updating R with installr formatR Knitr Installing and loading packages Including icons and animation Project management: ProjectTemplate Citation, papaja, and BetterBibTeX Quick copy from Zotero Different in-text citation forms papaja All things Xaringan: Presentation […]

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Next-Level In-Class Screen Annotation

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Remote teaching during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic isn’t much different from what I normally do, insofar as I’m still teaching from my home office to students that (mostly) were planning on being online, regardless. I’d been wondering what I can do to improve my engagement with the on-screen content during live class sessions. Like many, I’m using Zoom (which I’ve talked about in terms of using OBS to spice up your Zoom calls) and, while I think the annotation tools provided […]

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Three weeks in January

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Things have begun to quiet down now. The hundreds of emails are down to a trickle. Classes—synchronous and asynchronous—have taken on a cadence of their own. Read. Watch. Reflect. Discuss. Create. Repeat. The cadence of my days has shifted too. With the winter, the dark mornings, I no longer want to get up an go for an early run. I want to huddle in bed until 730. I noticed that I was often responding to emails all morning and then […]

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Skate

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Working from home this morning began with an early walk in the snow. I went down to see the new ice rink by the clock tower. It was deserted and perfect and nothing beats an open air skating rink and I had somehow forgotten the magic of it. And OF COURSE I listened to Kathleen Edwards in my head. Because I also don’t have hockey skates. youtu.be/xcjOPLQx8Bc This is something I would never have done on a Thursday morning in […]

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Snap Decision

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How are you? Simple question and how I start most classes. This week though…week 12…I unleashed a torrent. Stressed. Anxious. Scared. Really stressed. Behind. Tired. Exhausted. Too much to do. Did we mention STRESSED? It was a good conversation. Online classes are taking a toll. It feels like more work even if it really isn’t (I’ve reflected on this before and no doubt shall again). Deadlines and assignments seem hard to find. Online is harder. Without analyzing all this (another […]

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Not to be taken lightly

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See what I’m reading this gloomy Sunday to know that this post is not an easy one… I lost the bubble in November, spent a good 10 days barely functioning before realizing I needed to take a deep breath and then coming out on the other side with a new appreciation for Burnout, what it is, and how it can hit you out of the blue. I’m not sure I’d have really known what to even look for if a […]

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Reflection on Leadership

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Succinctly describe how you have grown as a leader duringthe program and how you will demonstrate your learning in your role moving forward.module 3, LDP In 2019-2020, I had an opportunity to participate in St. Lawrence College’s Leadership Development Program. Divided into three intensive modules over the course of the academic year, we covered Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, and Organizational Leadership. Our final task was in part to complete a succinct reflection–we were assigned this just as COVID broke and […]

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