Category: Online Teaching Tips

  • Tips on getting started with teaching GIS online

    Tips on getting started with teaching GIS online

    I was recently contacted by someone asking for advice about developing and teaching an online GIS course.  What follows is based on what I wrote in my e-mail response. I’m pretty new to this myself, having taught my first online GIS course last fall, but perhaps that’s a good thing, as the experience of going…

  • Live lecture/webinar hybrid experiment

    Live lecture/webinar hybrid experiment

    I’m currently teaching two sections of the same introductory GIS course, one face-to-face (F2F), and one online.  This morning I tried a little experiment – I taught my regular F2F class in a lecture hall as usual, but I had a live webinar version of it online at the same time.  It went remarkably well,…

  • Perfectionism, procrastination, and an unpolished first video demo

    Perfectionism, procrastination, and an unpolished first video demo

    Like many technology-oriented people, I consider myself to be a bit of a perfectionist.  There’s something about the crisp, exact, digital world that makes me want to fuss over every pixel, every detail.  To be clear, I’m not saying this in a braggy, interview way (“My worst fault? Well I guess you could say I’m…