Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 01, 2021 | by: Janelle Durham, MSW, LCCE
During pandemic, many birth educators discovered some benefits to online virtual classes, and may choose to continue to offer them even as many classes return to in-person. If you’re continuing online, do you know how to keep your classes secure? It’s important to know how to minimize your risks of “Zoom bombings” where unexpected people appear, and may say (or chat) offensive things, have their webcams aimed at something offensive, or share offensive videos.
First, I want to reassure you that the chances of this are small. Between me and my co-workers, we taught hundreds of classes online this year with no incidents. But I did have a severe Zoom bombing at church early in the pandemic when we didn’t know how to prevent it or how to manage it. So, just like there are simple smart things you can do to keep your physical classrooms safe for in-person students, there are simple steps you can to do protect and manage your online classroom.
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September 15, 2020 | by: Janelle Durham, MSW, LCCE
My colleague, and occasional Connecting the Dots contributor, Janelle Durham, MSW, LCCE, may be someone you know through her well-known website Transition to Parenthood, where she has shared childbirth class teaching activities and ideas generously for over 20 years. Today, she shares a story about what is really important when running a perinatal class in a great story about her recent teaching experience. - Sharon Muza, Community Manager, Connecting the Dots
June 01, 2017 | by: Janelle Durham, LCCE, ICCE, MSW
Janelle Durham adds to the "Welcoming All Families" series with a post on how professionals can create a welcoming space for people with disabilities who may be attending their childbirth classes.
June 14, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Childbirth educators, we have a problem. When ACOG changed the definition of the start of active labor from 4 cm to 6 cm of dilation, we failed to change our collective thinking about how we interpret and teach the phases of labor in our childbirth classes.
August 10, 2015 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Janelle Durham, MSW, LCCEToday we have another post in the Building Your Birth Business series. You may be interested in growing your own independent childbirth education or birth related business. Maybe you already have such a business already established but are looking to take
December 17, 2014 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Janelle Durham, MSW, LCCEAs we move into the new year, you may be considering starting your own independent childbirth education or birth related business. Maybe you already have such a business already established but are looking to take it to the next level. Today's post is part of a new
December 10, 2014 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
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