Developing Faculty
The Spider and the Butterfly
This perspective on remote learning and teaching may sound strange at first, but bear with me.
Distance and Online Learning
Tech-Savvy FL Teachers Recommend…
Finding the right tool can be difficult for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the tech tools are hard to find because we aren’t quite sure what we are looking for. We can search by the names and types of tools, Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Keep Teaching FLT for Proficiency
Whether you have to teach remotely or you just want to use technology in innovative ways… Keep focusing on teaching language for proficiency! It doesn’t matter how many great new platforms, apps, and sites you use if they don’t increase Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Are You Ready to Go #RemoteFLT?
How is the transition to remote learning going for you? What are your needs? What are your recommendations? Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/are-you-ready-to-go-remoteflt/ Please take a few minutes to share your situation and responses to it. We will return Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Welcome to the Online Learning World
Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/welcome-to-the-online-learning-world/ Friends, colleagues, students, parents of small children, lend me your ears: there are no easy answers. Education is changing before our eyes, and some of those changes will last. Some of them will not. Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Creating and Sharing a Video Presentation
#MAFLTutorial from the MAFLT Community site in D2L Updated 3/20/2020 The following instructions were originally created to teach MAFLT Students how to complete the technical aspects of sharing a video presentation with their peers in D2L. There are other ways Read more…
Developing Faculty
Surviving and Thriving in Zoom
When the message came around on March 12 that MSU was going completely over to remote instruction, most people’s first response was to recommend live (or “synchronous”) meetings in Zoom. You can find information on how to access Zoom as Read more…
Developing Faculty
Joining the Microsoft Teams Team
If you have just been informed that you now have to deliver your courses at a distance, then you may be feeling a little overwhelmed. I will add more guidance over time as I hear requests and think about what Read more…
Investigating Learning & Teaching
Teacher inquiry that brushes the boundaries of research
The other is that the questions that drive their desire to conduct research are often so large and complex, with so many variables and stakeholders, that they exceed the scope…
Growing Professionally
Paths to intellectual leadership
How does a program director chart a path to intellectual leadership – especially if it seems to lead farther away from productivity as a researcher?
