My most recent writing on the online pivot under COVID-19:
- Staff Issues Series for Chronicle of Higher Education
- Affective Labor: The Need for, and Cost of, Workplace Equanimity and Affective Labor and COVID-19: The Second Wave in Educause Review
- A Guide to Online Teaching in the Humanities for the MLA’s Bringing Your Course Online
- Taking Care: Creating Meaningful Online Learning and Teaching Home in IHE
- 5 Myths About Remote Teaching in the Covid-19 Crisis with Nancy Chick and Jennifer C. Friberg in CHE
- Digital Learning During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in The National Teaching and Learning Forum
- Teaching Online in Extraordinary Times in The Modernist Review
- Dear Men Who Have Discovered Parenting Is Hard and Are Being Paid to Write About It (SATIRE) in Points in Case
- To Be Believed in University of Venus
I’ve been blogging for a decade. If you don’t want to actually dig through the thousands of posts I’ve written, you can browse my Decade Retrospective. My (former) Blogs:
You can also find my academic essays that are available open-access on my Humanities Commons page.
Writing Related to Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Higher Education:
- Blog Posts while working at CNDLS at Georgetown University
- Blog Posts while working at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington
- Articles in Hybrid Pedagogy
- Articles in Women in Higher Education
- Metro News “Ask a Professor” Series
- Profiling the Academic Blogosphere in The Guardian
- Bridging the Digital Divide in the Classroom in a Media Commons Field Guide to Teaching with Technology
I also wrote prolifically for Academic Coaching and Writing, as well as Educating Modern Learners, which, like the ProfHacker archives, have disappeared into the Internet Ether.
I was on live TV once, talking about Domain of One’s Own, but I have appeared a number of times in and on Virtually Connecting.
I also recently did a free online workshop for the Online Learning Collective on Managing Student Group Projects in an Online Environment.
A Selection of Workshops I Have Offered:
- Digital Pedagogy and Networked Learning at HILT
- Academic Digital Identity at MLA and DHSI
- Incorporating Digital Fluency at Digital Pedagogy Lab
- Affective Labor and Staff at Digital Pedagogy Lab
- Digital Dexterity at Davidson College
- Using Unconferences at Educause ELI
Other Writing:
- Data-Sitters Club
- Series in Popula on Quebec
- Learning to Drive (Again) on ADHD Medication in Disability Acts
- Defending Friends on LARB Avidly
- Too Much Crying and Adult Lessons from Children’s Books in New York Times Motherload blog
- Who Needs Sleep in HuffPost
- The 1998 Dystopian Novel That Eerily Foresaw 2013 Detroit in The Atlantic
- Articles from BitchFlicks
- My very first ever by-line, in Swim News
This is just a sampling of my writing, talks, and workshops. Please see my complete C.V. and email me at lee dot bessette at gmail dot com if you are interested in inviting me to your campus or writing for you.
