I don’t pretend to have special expertise, but have been seeing many good ideas and thoughtful suggestions from my colleagues. In this difficult time, it is inspiring and comforting to see how dedicated my colleagues are to our students’ learning and to their well-being. Thank you to all who have shared materials and skills.
Making the Transition to Online Teaching:
- Tips & Strategies for Instructional Continuity (Barnard’s Center for Engaged Pedagogy)
- Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start (Michelle D. Miller)
- Contingency Planning: Teaching Online (Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning)
- Getting Online: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges
- Pivot to Online: A Student Guide (Sean Michael Morris)
- Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
- Going Online: A History Department Guide (shared by Laura Liebman)
- Free Resources to Help Faculty Affected by Coronavirus (LinkedIn)
- Bringing Your Course Online (resources compiled by the MLA)
Blended Learning and Online Teaching:
- Blended Learning (Columbia CTL)
- Best Practices: Online Pedagogy (Harvard)
- The Humanizing Tool Buffet (California State University Channel Islands)
- Behaviors & Strategies for Improving Instructor Presence (California State University Channel Islands)
- Designing an Accessible Online Course (Explore Access)
- Online Instruction Ideas
- Remote Education Resource Center (School of Education, University at Albany)
- How to Teach/Learn Online (KNILT)
- The Ultimate Guide to Online Teaching (Top Hat)
Synchronous Online Classes:
- CTL Synchronous Online Teaching: Tips and Strategies
- Synchronous Online Classes: 10 Tips for Engaging Students
- Best Practices for Synchronous Sessions (Northwestern University School of Professional Studies Distance Learning)
Socially distanced in-person classes:
Recording strategies:
Ideas for Assignments:
Using Zoom:
- Zoom: Support During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Laura Liebman’s video on setting up your Zoom environment
- Zoom for Thesis Meetings and Student Paper Conferences (Laura Liebman)
- How to hide your messy room for a Zoom video conference
- Zoom Privacy and Security Features (Indiana University)
Information for Students:
- Barnard’s Semester Completion FAQ for students
- Keep Learning During Campus Closures (UNC Greensboro)
- Learning Remotely (Academic Resource Center at Harvard University)
Attending to student and faculty well-being:
- The message I sent to my seminar students today (Jenny Davidson)
- Using Google Forms to Survey Students’ Needs in a Time of Crisis (Laura Leibman)
- Considering Stress and Trauma during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Implications for Administrators, Teachers, Parents and Families (Dr. Elana Gordis and Dr. Alex L. Pieterse)
- This pandemic is not an extended sabbatical (Nature)
General Resources:
- Teaching in the Context of Covid-19
- Coronavirus Information for Higher Ed (AAUP)
- 15 Fall Scenarios (Inside Higher Ed)
- Facebook groups:
Information on Free and Discounted Resources for Students and Teachers:
- Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings
- Free Online Learning Resources For Schools Affected by Coronavirus/COVID-19
- Free Education Subscriptions
- Comcast offer of 60 days of free Internet Essentials
- U.S. providers offer free wifi for 60 days
- Information from the NYC Department of Education:
- AlticeUSA is providing free internet service for all students for 60 days. Please call 866-200-9522 to enroll.
- Comcast – Comcast is offering an internet essentials package for free. To sign up for a free internet essentials package for 60 days, applicants can simply visit www.internetessentials.com. The accessible website also includes the option to video chat with customer service agents in American Sign Language. There are also two dedicated phone numbers 1-855-846-8376 for English and 1-855-765-6995 for Spanish.
- Spectrum is offering free internet access for students. Beginning March 16, Spectrum is offering free internet for 60 days to households with K-12 or college students who don’t already have a Spectrum subscription. To enroll, call 1-844-488-8395.
- Charter is offering free internet for 2 months. 1 (877) 906-9121
- AT&T COVID-19 response. AT&T will offer open hot-spots, unlimited data to existing customers, and $10/month plans to low-income families.
- Verizon does not have special offers, but is following the FCC agreement.
- Sprint is following the FCC agreement, providing unlimited data to existing customers, and, starting Tuesday, 3/17/2020, will allow all handsets to enable hot spots for 60 days at no extra charge.
- T-Mobile is following the FCC agreement, plus unlimited data to existing customers, and, coming soon, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge.
- National Emergency Library
- Gale free access:
- Free Educreations Pro Accounts for Teachers
Museums:
History:
- Historians Respond to Covid 19: Projects and Collecting Initiatives Documenting the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Early American Jews & Yellow Fever: One Family’s Story (Laura Leibman)
- #VastEarlyAmerica Resources (Omohundro Institute)
Literature materials:
Science materials:
Archiving the Pandemic:
- ASU team leads effort to archive effect of COVID-19 on everyday lives
- A Journal of the Plague Year: an Archive of CoVid19
- Historians Respond to Covid 19: Projects and Collecting Initiatives Documenting the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Coronavirus Lost & Found: A Pandemic Archive
- The Pandemic Journaling Project