The Trinity of Online Learning
Is this the year of online education – along with the year of everything else? Online Learning has a different meaning depending on the audience. This post will review the trinity of online education:...
View ArticleYou Aren’t an Imposter
Armies of traditional face to face teachers just taught their first full semester of courses online. And for those who thought they were imposters, they just proved themselves wrong. Teachers who...
View ArticleZoomed Out
The video conferencing solution does not matter – Zoom, Skype, Google Hangout, Big Blue Button – but the effect is the same. The overuse of live lesson platforms, frustrated teachers, and underwhelmed...
View ArticleIf We Go Home Tomorrow
Are you ready, if we go home tomorrow? What do you need to do to be ready for the possibility of being sent to teach remotely again? Free eBook: If We Go Home Tomorrow. Are you ready if we go home...
View ArticleBlog Renew
Time for a blog renew for HotLunchTray. In an effort to refocus on serving the target HLT audience it is time to rebuild focused content. The One Hour Content Plan by Meera Kothand advised bloggers to...
View Article3 Guidelines to Design an Effective Online Course
The top three requirements for designing an effective online course are all related to teacher presence. The teacher has to be present in the communication throughout the course, compiling or creating...
View ArticleHow to Organize a Module
If you’re reading this post you likely use a teacher using a learning management system (LMS). And if you are a K-12 teacher right now, you need to know how to organize a module! After just coming...
View ArticleBe an Online Teacher to be Proud of!
Be an online teacher to be proud of! To be an online teacher to be proud of you need specific skills. Those skills build on the knowledge of face-to-face teaching but must be honed and practiced to...
View ArticleStick to an Announcement Schedule
The best interaction in an online course is the interaction you create through suspense. By creating an Announcement Schedule you can stick to, you build anticipation for each forthcoming announcement....
View ArticlePublish and Unpublish as Instructional Tools
If you have been in a classroom in the past 19 months (since March 2020) you already know about the power of the publish and unpublish as an instructional tool. And if not, I know don’t how you’ve been...
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