Online Learning
I love teaching online. My fully online classes and tutorials let students who wouldn’t normally be able to take my classes join me from wherever they are, while in my hybrid classes the online components act as a force multiplier that supercharges what I can accomplish in person.
Developing a new kind of teaching voice, along with a new vector to reach students, completely changed my game as a professor.
“I’ve never experienced a smoother transition from in-person to online.”
In 2010, I received the University Film and Video Association Teaching Award for achievements in pedagogy contributing to the field of film and video education for my development of hybrid online media instruction with my prioneering web site OneFromZero. For fifteen years, I taught a 100-student introduction to digital media art production course as a hybrid online/face-to-face class (except when pandemics required online-only, in which case it morphs seamlessly). This course was a boon for new learners in the media arts, and it also served as a vital on-ramp to bring undecided students into digital media art programs.
While I teach at all levels in person and on the internet, my particular passion (perhaps unsuprisingly) is teaching students at the very beginning of their journey. The quantum leap from novice-hood to dawning understanding is the moment in a student’s development that most inspires me as a teacher.