The Joyful Online Teacher with Flower Darby

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

Quotes from the episode

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
• Poll Everywhere