by Christine Monnier | Oct 21, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
Christine’s Cranky Thought of the Week That Does Not Involve LT If you spend any time on YouTube these days, you cannot avoid the increasing number of AI-generated videos. And they’re all universally bad. Thankfully, there’s a browser extension you...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 6, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Cranky thought of the day that does not involve the LT department: if you book time with our LT colleagues, and especially if you requested a custom session for a specific group, and then, you don’t show up, it’s rude. Please don’t do that. These...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 1, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Christine’s cranky thought that does not involve the LT department: ever heard of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines? Here it is: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” Case in point: Anyhoo, back to Blackboard...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 26, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger
Christine’s gloating thought of the day that does not involve the LT department: I’ve always thought that the argument that yes, maybe, the current LLMs are bad but they will improve was not persuasive. The current models have already hoovered most data in...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y’all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to “decode” the current discourse in a...
