My teaching responsibilities include two online classes and the coordination of the ecology laboratory classes.  One of the first online classes I developed was ISB 202:  Applications of Organismal and Environmental Biology:  basically an environmental studies class for non-majors.  One of the things I noticed when teaching non-majors was that they would often say that, “science is not my forte,” or the student would express anxiety at having to take the course.  To take advantage of the online medium and to reduce subject anxiety, I used comics to serve as a soft introduction to weekly topics.  I am currently working on some scholarship looking at how to reduce subject anxiety in non-majors.  This course won an AT&T/MSU Award for Best Online Class (2009) and the James D. Hoeschele Endowed Teaching Award for excellence in teaching science to non-science majors(2010).  The second course I teach online is Ecology for majors.   It incorporates the videos in the video section of this website as well other features such as backward design and authentic assessment.  It also won an AT&T/MSU Award for Best Online Class (2011).