This rapid uptick in the volume of emails is understandable given the looming crisis – we are now inundated with information from our discipline, Division, Department, College, District, and professional communities, not to mention our most important “constituents,” our students! But is it, perhaps, time to step back and ask ourselves whether email is the best mode of communication for everything?

I have been hoarding emails containing tips and resources for dealing with instruction in the era of COVID-19 for the past 2-3 weeks, thinking to compile a consolidated list of resources that I could share with all of you.

OK, so the majority of this week’s Tech Tuesday Tip credit goes to Psychology Faculty Extraordinaire, Dr. Alisa Beyer – who, among other duties, moonlights as your CGCC representative on the District Maricopa Millions (Maricopa’s own OER initiative) team. She thought it might be useful to highlight OER this week, as it actually IS Open Education Week! https://www.openeducationweek.org/

You may recall an OER Google survey coming to your inbox last Fall, asking whether or not you used Open resources, if so, in  what context, and if not, why not – Alisa shared those results with me, and I used the Adobe Spark Post app on my iPad (also available for Google devices, and as a web-based tool from your computer) to compile some of her results into this infographic: