SoftChalk - eLearning Blog

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts addressing key steps for creating high-quality online learning content. After discussing in the first post (Step 1: Discovering Good Content), the factors to consider in locating usable learning resources, we looked to the second (Step 2: Reusing and repurposing learning content) at the role that context plays in preparing content for student access. In the third post (Step 3: Making Content Pedagogically Effective), we considered approaches for making content pedagogically effective.

In these COVID-19 times, we are all learners. Teachers, students, and families are learning new skills, pedagogies, and technologies. While new learning and professional growth is exciting, it is also exhausting. Be kind to yourself, your students, and their families. Not only are teachers looking for new lesson planning ideas, technology options, and creating a digital presence, your students are also learning new skills, course content, and working with family members new to schooling at home, who themselves may have lost their job or are also trying to work from home.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has put us all in a world that we did not see coming. The rapid deployment of social distancing took many by surprise, and each state, school, and individual teacher will contend with their own unique challenges as they tackle this crisis. Yet, as educators, we must figure out how to continue the learning. In times like this, even our teachers will be learning – learning new skills and pedagogy.

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Catch a recap of all the amazing lessons YOU, our users are creating!

The SoftChalk Talk Blog is back in action! We look forward to providing you with regular posts on all things new with SoftChalk, tips and tricks, guest spots by ‘Chalkies’ like you, and posts discussing the hottest topics and trends in education today.

Please help us in welcoming back Lisa Dubuc of Niagara County Community College (SUNY) for another guest post! Lisa is one of the presenters from our wildly popular Face-to-Face, Blended and Online Teaching and Learning Innovator Series. The series might be over but the recorded sessions are available on our website and there are still plenty of issues to explore through blog posts. Take it away Lisa.