The Joyful Online Teacher, with Flower Darby

Flower Darby shares about being a joyful online teacher on episode 620 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

Higher education doesn’t do a great job of preparing faculty to teach, generally speaking, that’s not new, but especially online teaching.

-Flower Darby

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.

-Flower Darby

Sometimes you don’t need all the latest bells and whistles; you don’t need the latest iPhone. We can be effective with simpler tools.

-Flower Darby

We can’t be joyful if we’re always working.

-Flower Darby

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Resources

• The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes by Flower Darby (oupress.com/9780806196534/the-joyful-online-te…)

• Michelle Pacansky-Brock (brocansky.com)

• The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh (wvupressonline.com/node/642)

• Dave Ghidiu (linkedin.com/in/daveghidiu)

• Denise Maduli-Williams (linkedin.com/in/dmaduliwilliams)

• TextExpander (textexpander.com)

• Thor: God of Thunder gets a library card (youtu.be/rxhgtsl1ai0?si=iiqmkVb7Zwki39Sj)

• A Starting Point for Seth Godin’s Blog (seths.blog/2026/02/a-starting-point-for-the-blog)

• Feel Good Inc., by Gorillaz (song.link/i/850571371)

• Muddiest Point Handout from Purdue (purdue.edu/activelearning/Need%20Help/ALCOP%20…)

• Revitalizing the Muddiest Point for Formative Assessment and Student Engagement in a Large Class, by Amy Mackos, Kelly Casler, Joni Tornwall, and Tara O’Brien (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36223258)

• Poll Everywhere (polleverywhere.com)

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