Episode 20 - Improving Online Teaching Through Image and Story: Sophfronia Scott and Ralph Basui Watkins
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
Online teaching, even for those teachers who abruptly made the transition weeks ago, is here to stay. Improving and enriching online teaching means better use of image and storytelling. This conversation provides insights, practices, and know-how-suggestions for including poetry, film, novels, music – all forms of the arts – into learning sessions and student assignments. The courage of being an artist who teaches, and the inspiration to take risks, is a central theme of the dialogue. The use of technology does not have to be a hindrance to creative teaching; it might actually be an asset.