by Christina Sabo | Apr 21, 2020 | Featured, Features
Many faculty have been asking about different ways to assess student learning as we approach the end of the academic year. You might want some new, fresh ideas because your traditional final won’t work well in Blackboard, or because the term paper you originally...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 20, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
I read somewhere (and for the life of me I can’t remember where and I have too much to grade this week to look it up) that a good idea to help students learn is to generate a unifying theme for your students, a grand narrative of the course, so they can see that...
by Christina Sabo | Apr 17, 2020 | Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, Featured
Connecting with students through synchronous sessions or recorded lectures can be great, but not all solutions are created equally. Some tools may have issues with security (Zoom, ahem) or may have a steeper learning curve for users. If you already have an online...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 15, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Tech to Try
So far, in my blog posts, I have showed you two ways to make your presentations interactive: Yuja, and H5P (with the Learning Tech folks’ caveat that we only have a few licenses). I have also shared some polling apps, my favorite being Socrative. I’d like...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 13, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
I got pet peeves. Sooooo many pet peeves. And the ubiquitous use of Zoom and other videoconferencing tools has added a few to the list! So, I got to thinking, someone should make some rule of Zoom Etiquettes (Zetiquette??). But who? WHO? Duh, ME, of course. So here...