I have no experience on online teaching before the COVID pandemic, which gave me no choice but change and adapt to this new 'normal'. In the beginning, I gave my lecture over the zoom, posted assignments on Canvas and asked students to read my posted notes. I didn't know there was a humanizing method to offer interesting, warm, and interactive online teaching and learning environment.
After taking this humanizing course, I learned a lot within six weeks. There are many interesting videos, tools and assignments, which gave me great lessons on how to deliver an effective, interesting and warm online course. These will give me a solid foundation to teach more online course with great confidence.
I think I will start with modifying my past online courses by including the methods, components, tools I learned from this course, especially the principles of humanizing: trust, presence, awareness and empathy. I feel I am more confident and comfortable to use videos for both teaching students and communication with students now.