A few weeks ago, I wrapped a year serving as a program co-director for the Master of Data Science and Analytics. It was a position I grew to enjoy in a challenging year, especially with the fantastic team I got to work with, and notably my co-director, Matthew Greenberg. The position put me into contact with more people across the university and in the community than ever, and this was something I really appreciated given the last couple of years we’ve had.
It’s been a bit of a semester.
This Fall, I spent six weeks teaching DATA 604, and significantly more than six weeks designing and prepping to deliver it.
Once I was logged into Zoom for the first time, I realized that most of my plans for the semester needed rethinking. However, I managed to signficantly ramp up my video production skills (between this, and my work on the Outreach side).
In the beginning of March this year, I ran a Google search for really great books about post-secondary teaching. I don’t remember why, but I remember reading this list. It led me to borrow the copy of Michelle Miller’s Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology housed in our campus library.
Funny how things turned out.
I didn’t get around to reading the book in its entirety until after the Winter semester and six weeks of emergency mode receded; I probably need to read it again to make things stick better.