For 13 years, I taught college students in a traditional classroom. The face-to-face discussion was rewarding, and I had no plans to give it up. But life intervened. Now I find myself living several hundred miles away from the university I called home and teaching exclusively online. Although I was concerned that making the transition from chalk dust to pixels would mean having less connection to my students, and perhaps less academic freedom, I knew I could be a competent online instructor.