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Short Videos to Simplify Your Life as a College Instructor

During the past few weeks, I’ve been a student in an online faculty development course to prepare myself to teach an upcoming International Business Communication class. The course focuses on global learning, but much of the material discusses the basics that college instructors need to know (and potentially share with their students) about simplifying the…

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What’s Going on in This Picture? How to Use Visual Thinking Strategies in the Classroom

Although Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) have been used in the classroom for decades, and I feel fairly well-versed in different teaching methods, I can honestly say this was a new one for me until I learned about it in a recent faculty development course. VTS tends to be used in more artistic or visually-reliant fields,…

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Finding Your Work Flow: How to Be More Productive With Less Caffeine

Since I started phasing out energy drinks over a year ago, and then gradually eliminated my daily coffee fix, I’ve been trying to find a way to keep my productivity up. As someone who works from home on a computer every day and relies on self-motivation, this has not been easy without caffeine. You see,…

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How to Cut Down on Time Spent Checking Student Emails

If you haven’t figured out how to cut down on the time you spend answering student emails, I may have the answer for you! When I tell other teachers that I have a number of stock email responses ready to go in the Notes app of my iPhone, some of them are relieved to have…

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How to Motivate Students: The Perfect Films for Communication Courses

Every teacher knows that sometimes you have a class that’s super motivated, while another class is barely hanging in there. There’s not necessarily a rhyme or reason for it, it just happens. The solution? I won’t attempt to go into that at the moment, but you can do a variety of activities, see how things…