Before Covid-19, when I taught in person, I always asked my students to post weekly essays on a discussion board I call the “sandbox.” During the pandemic, the sandbox has proved an effective way to ...

My love affair with Zoom began the evening of Sept. 14, 2020, after teaching my first class online: “Great Writers in Small Doses: The Short Story,” offered by Johns Hopkins Odyssey. It was such a ...

What if you gave a Zoom class and nobody came? That was my nightmare come true when I tried to teach my first online class in March. Many professors had taught online for years, by choice. Not me. I ...