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...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 17, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine note that has nothing to do with the LT office: did you guys read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education? That’s what has made AI-generated text relatively easy to spot in student work. But, to me, so far, it was more like that saying from...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 11, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Training
Let’s talk about a topic that I consider super important: our own digital practices with regards to privacy and data protection. This is, of course, related to my previous post on LLMs. The usual disclaimer: What I discuss in this post is my perspective only, It...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 9, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Events, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
Come read with me the recently published The Opposite of Cheating – Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The seminar will consist of four one-hour sessions on Zoom, starting in October, on Thursdays (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, and 10/23), from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 4, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
We need your help. As you know, we still have about 40% of faculty who have yet to migrate to Ultra. We are still trying to avoid a stampede at the end of the semester and the beginning of Spring 2026. And yet, at the Open Labs, we are starting to see adjuncts who are...
