After a long break, the Language Center is pleased to resume posting tips about the teaching of languages and culture. In one of our final posts in May 2021, we shared with you a plethora of links for your summer reading pleasure. Since then, many of you have returned to classroom instruction, albeit masked, while others continue to hone their remote teaching skills via Zoom. What remains constant across all modalities, however, is the need to be flexible and to adapt to new teaching and learning environments that will never be the same as they were pre-pandemic. In the coming months, we hope to share strategies that will build your confidence in managing both the online and in-person teaching environments, provide tips for using online tools more efficiently, and inspire you to try out new learning activities.
We are pleased to announce a new platform for our blog as well. The Tip of the Day blog now has its own Drupal Lite website. One big advantage to using this new site is that its contents are accessible by the general UMN search engine. For example, if you type in "jamboards" into the search bar, the first three hits link to previous Tip of the Day posts! We hope this will make it easier to access previous tips.
In addition, all of our past posts in Blogger are easily accessible from the new website.
We continue to invite ideas, tips, and suggestions from the community. You can share those with us at [email protected].