Back to school

Not literally, although that's happening, too (Winter Break is over) -  I'm one of the lucky participants in Simmons' Online class Instructional Design: Creating Effective Materials for Online Learning.  It's "only" a four-week course, so my January will be busy! My school is using WhippleHill's classroom management platform, so this class will be my first…

New Year’s Resolutions

As we move into 2010 and plan to lose weight, exercise more, read more, declutter, stop smoking and what ever else we're resolving to do, let's also make some professional resolutions. My suggestions? Stop losing sleep and wishing people were not part of our profession. Instead, take the time to recognize that there are sometimes…