Hey there. Welcome to module two. As we get started with this module let's take a moment to
just take a breath and look back at where we've been. We have truly enjoyed getting to know you
and we'd like to extend a big warm thank you for sharing so much of yourselves with us. This first
week we know from your one word answers about how you're feeling about the class folks are excited,
we have folks who are curious, we also have folks who are tired and folks who are a little nervous.
So we want a big space for all of that that's all of our humanity and lean in together and
support one another through this journey. Also, in module one, um, we engaged in a conversation
about memorable educators and that was awesome. As I look back at some of the things that you
shared and pro tip I've got a little sticky note here that I'm looking at, but I have some
notes on some of the words that came up. Your memorable Educators made you feel inspired,
they were life-changing, they were motivating ,and the theme they did things that they didn't have to
do and that I find really fascinating because the research links that with kindness. People perceive
when -- when people do things that they don't have to do other people perceive those things
as acts of kindness. I want you to keep that in mind because this word kindness is going to keep
coming up in this class and all those things are feelings. So we're seeing how that connects with
the topic of our class, humanizing, right? We've got to feel good about what we're doing to have
that self-confidence to lean in and to challenge ourselves and that's even harder for folks who are
entering in from the margins and not in a dominant position when it comes to our social interactions.
Let's see what else, uh, you did your course card and your home page. You're going to continue to
build those kindness cues as we head into module two and in module two a couple of the things
we'll be focusing on is supporting multicultural students. So we'll be thinking about intercultural
communication and you'll be doing some reflections on the cultural cues in your own teaching. So
building some cultural awareness, again, which might be new to some of you and might not be new
to some of you. And then what we're gonna do is also be thinking more critically about building
trust. We're going to unpack what trust is and how it gets developed and for our purposes be
thinking about how to develop it asynchronously online. Although, all of these practices can
be applied to any course right? 'm sure you're already thinking that this is just good teaching.
So to do that you're going to create the first draft of your own liquid syllabus using Google
Sites, okay? So take a deep breath. You've got this. You're going to slow roll this.
You're going to do several drafts of your liquid syllabus in this course. So this week, you do your
first draft. You're also going to demonstrate your ability to create a video and host it and
caption it -- nothing major. We're just looking for a real quick video clip. So you're going to
be basically getting your arms around the foundations of creating videos this week.
So, again one step at a time. Lean in, take a deep breath, we're with you. You've got this