{"id":4226,"date":"2018-02-07T13:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=4226"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:31:50","slug":"2018ambassador-finn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2018ambassador-finn\/","title":{"rendered":"Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2018 &#8211; Fredonia: Linda Finn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4239\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4239\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2018\/02\/Linda-Finn-Fredonia-350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Linda-Finn-Fredonia-350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Linda-Finn-Fredonia-350-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Linda-Finn-Fredonia-350-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Finn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Linda Finn<\/strong> is an adjunct instructor in the Education Department at SUNY Fredonia.\u00a0 She has been doing online work for the past five years at the university level.\u00a0 Prior to this, she created and used online teaching in her job as Comprehensive Health and Wellness Coordinator for Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES and continues to do so.\u00a0 The online course that she teaches most is Educational Psychology.\u00a0 Linda is a certified Pre-K-6th grade teacher as well as both a School Building and School District Administrator.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition to teaching online courses at the college, she has also created and continues to teach NYSED approved coaching certification courses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Like most, I found some challenges with online instruction in the beginning.\u00a0 How was I going to incorporate my sense of humor and &#8220;hands on&#8221; approach?\u00a0 I do think with time and practice, I have become just as comfortable, if not more comfortable, teaching online.\u00a0 I learned a lot from doing my Master&#8217;s degree almost completely online.\u00a0 Each time I create a course, I think back to what supports helped me and what format I found most useful.\u00a0 Along the same lines, I continually ask for student feedback.\u00a0 This is where I have been most educated as far as &#8220;best practice.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0I think online learning opens a world of opportunity for students and gives us another tool to use in our quest to differentiate instruction.\u00a0 I am fortunate enough to see this opportunity being used at the high school level with much success as well.\u00a0 I love online instruction and look forward to creating and teaching new courses in the future!<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Finn is an adjunct instructor in the Education Department at SUNY Fredonia.\u00a0 She has been doing online work for the past five years at the university level.\u00a0 Prior to this, she created and used online teaching in her job as Comprehensive Health and Wellness Coordinator for Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES and continues to do so.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4226\/revisions\/4412"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}