Most of us have times in our teaching where we have been struck by the realization of just how much of life... of teaching is out of our control.

In today's episode, Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette joins me to talk about how to deal with and manage when stuff get's out of control in our lives, as well as how to address those situations when it happens to our students.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette

Faculty Instructional Consultant at the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky
Dr. Skallerup on Twitter: @readywriting
Dr. Skallerup on Inside Higher Ed

Digital humanities
... the intersection between technology and what technology can help us do in the humanities. - Lee Skallerup Bessette

Big data, distance reading, social networking and network graphs
Digitization and archives
Making research, primary sources more available
Computational linguistics and mapping
Media studies

Digital pedagogy
We have unprecedented access to tools, to information, to interfaces, and the question that digital pedagogy attempts to answer is: 'So what? What do we do with them?' - Lee Skallerup Bessette

EdTech versus digital pedagogy

Often educational technology are almost commercially based, not to say that all of them are. - Lee Skallerup Bessette

Assignment to define digital pedagogy in 121 characters, an assignment for the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching 2015
Storify of the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching 2015 by Lee

Lee's digital pedagogy definition   "Making, bending, and breaking. #hilt2015"
#hilt2015 Digital Pedagogy - Making, Bending, Breaking https://t.co/hBI5JSGQOB

— Lee Skallerup (@readywriting) July 27, 2015
Blogs at College Ready Writing on Insidehighered.com

Doing it Wrong
On Not Swimming
Reflections from a New Faculty Developer

Losing control during a course

Decided how to make this work, but learned some lessons along the way
Too much focus on "covering" the content
Disappointing results in students' un-essay projects

[When things happen outside your control], sometimes you've got to let go of some of the coverage [of course content] in order to accomplish the learning goals. - Lee Skallerup Bassette

Finding balance

Tends to happen in stages/seasons (especially regarding the kid's ages)
Husband just got tenure and those demands also needed to be taken into consideration

Blogging was one of the things that I used to try to maintain some sort of balance. It was something I did for me and my own sanity. - Lee Skallerup Bassette