"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

 How do you engage your virtual students in the discussion of texts? What challenges have you overcome and what strategies do use? This roundtable is open to proposals that narrate their successful moments--big or small--of teaching any variety of texts in the virtual space of an LMS. We are especially interested in hearing how one uses the virtual space to build community, collaboration, and relationships. Perhaps the class is contextualized for certain majors, focuses on a novel theme, contains thought-provoking discussion questions, utilizes technology (Padlet, Google docs), offers creative group-work, provides opportunities for multi-modal creations, or something else. We invite narrative reflections and examples of transformations of the virtual space. PowerPoints with screenshots are welcome.

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025) will be held in San Francisco, CA from Thursday, November 20 to Sunday, November 23, 2022.  The conference is in-person.

Individuals should submit a 200-350 (maximum) word abstract as well as a brief bio and A/V requirements by June 20th to the submission site:  pamla.org.  Please feel free to email me with questions.