by Christina Sabo | Apr 7, 2020 | Blackboard, Featured, Features
As the end of the semester looms, many faculty are wondering things like: “How can I assess what my students are learning?” and “How can I create an equivalent to my classroom test in Blackboard? These questions have become even more pertinent with...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 11, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Video, Yuja
But there is this pandemic thing. What do we do if the college has to close because of the COVID-19? We know quite a few campuses have already closed and others are taking measures in case they have to. In this post, I do not want to discuss what our institutional...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 10, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger, Showcase, Tech to Try, Video, Yuja
That was some clickbait, wasn’t it? It will be worth it, I promise. Colleagues, here is a problem I have faced for a long time: I use a lot of video materials (hello, PBS Frontline!), but my students do not know how to watch videos. That’s right. They can...
by Christina Sabo | Jun 19, 2018 | Featured, Features
Infographics are everywhere these days, from Twitter feeds to cereal boxes. And with good reason: they make it easy to share data and important information in an easily digestible and engaging format. Infographics might look complicated to make but in reality, anyone,...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Features
Even if you don’t know the term, if you’ve used a computer in the past couple of decades you’ve seen an avatar. Avatars are digital graphical representations of the user, either as themselves or an alter ego, in both 2-D (like a BitMoji) and 3-D...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 16, 2018 | Accessibility, Blackboard, Featured, Features
By and large, technology has been an incredible tool for learners with a disability, improving their independence and allowing them to utilize resources that they wouldn’t have had access to in years past. However, it hasn’t been a perfect solution. Many types...