Teaching Effectively With Zoom | Tech Teaching Tips from Timothy Corvidae

Timothy Corvidae (he/him), Instructional Designer at the Washington Center, brings a range of experience in curriculum design, instruction, and facilitation. Check out his full bio on our website and connect for further conversations on online teaching at Evergreen.

For this month’s tech tip, I want to point you to a bunch of tips, in the form of the website for the book Teaching Effectively with Zoom (I also highly recommend the book; go for the 2nd edition which has additional ideas submitted by faculty– only $4.99 for the e-book. We also have a copy of the 1st edition at the Learning and Teaching Commons.)

Some highlights among these resources:

The Stories: Short, specific ideas from faculty about how they are teaching with Zoom.

The Checklists: Dan Levy is a big fan of checklists, as am I. (Check out the Checklist Manifesto for more on why.) Conveniently, he’s shared the checklists he uses to ensure success in implementing several of the teaching techniques he uses. These aren’t just instructions to get you started; Dan still keeps these at hand as he teaches, to avoid forgetting or omitting steps that make the technique work.

Questioning Strategies: This is one of several resources from other institutions shared on the site. It’s a guide from the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

If you’d like to get some of these ideas in your ears, Dan Levy has been interviewed twice on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. The first interview gives a good overview of his ideas, and the second has some updates (but also some redundancy):

1) https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/teaching-effectively-with-zoom/

2) https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/on-improving-our-teaching/