As of late April, we’re preparing to teach our fall classes in a *hybrid* format. That’s to say, we’re planning to teach partially online but also with some face-to-face meetings. We’re devising these plans under the advisement of our administration as well as our local and state officials, but we understand them to be provisional, since nobody can know yet what the fall will hold.

We hope that we will be able to meet safely with our students in person, because it’s hard to have a responsible writing pedagogy in a class that is entirely online. If we do have to teach entirely online for the sake of our public health, we will. And we’ll use the best practices we learn from scholars of digital/writing pedagogy.

As you know, the college is offering workshops in Blackboard and Google Classroom through the Center for Teaching and Learning. Those workshops will run asynchronously online over the summer to help us all prepare to teach online as necessary in the fall.

First Year Writing is also developing faculty development workshops of our own as a supplement to those workshops run by the CTL. Our workshops will run in Google Classroom, with the aim to convert our ENG 110 syllabi and lessons plans into course materials you can use to teach online.

More info to come!