Flower Darby shares about being a joyful online teacher on episode 620 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.

Higher education doesn’t do a great job of preparing faculty to teach, generally speaking, that’s not new, but especially online teaching.
-Flower Darby

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.
-Flower Darby

Sometimes you don’t need all the latest bells and whistles; you don’t need the latest iPhone. We can be effective with simpler tools.
-Flower Darby

We can’t be joyful if we’re always working.
-Flower Darby

Resources

The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes by Flower Darby
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Dave Ghidiu
Denise Maduli-Williams
TextExpander
Thor: God of Thunder gets a library card
A Starting Point for Seth Godin’s Blog
Feel Good Inc., by Gorillaz
Muddiest Point Handout from Purdue
Revitalizing the Muddiest Point for Formative Assessment and Student Engagement in a Large Class, by Amy Mackos, Kelly Casler, Joni Tornwall, and Tara O’Brien
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