RS Faculty & TFs Move Teaching Online
“I would like to thank the LS111 instructors – Braden Clinger, Karina Sembe, Carlos Cruz, Liliane Dusewoir and Mildred Basker-Seigel – for being such great colleagues and for making this process of moving online so much easier and more effective.”
Sue Griffin
As the Covid-19 epidemic spreads around the world, one of its many impacts has been the large-scale movement to an online format for university education. Here at BU Romance Studies, we have, on minimal notice, moved online everything from introductory language classes to advanced graduate seminars. Our faculty and teaching fellows have done a tremendous job of meeting this unique challenge!
Sue Griffin, Master Lecturer in Spanish, tells us a bit about her experience with this transition.
“I am currently teaching three different levels of Spanish and by far the most challenging is LS111.
We met once virtually before going online and have met every week since. Together we tried different programs and platforms and worked out how to use Google Docs for homework assignments, TurnItIn for grading compositions, and how to share tests created in Blackboard.
We also came up with a slew of authentic online website such as https://www.nooddle.es/explore to explore recipes in Spanish and https://www.frescabarna.com/es/ to calculate how much those recipes would cost to make. Everyone has something to offer and we create and problem solve together. For me this has been an energizing collaboration and is, in my opinion, one of the silver lining of these sad circumstances in which we find ourselves. Together, we really are stronger than the sum of our parts.”