by 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 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...
by monnier | Apr 13, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
Back in the days of the Great MOOC Craze [periodic reminder that there are no good reasons to jump on every Gates-funded bandwagon], I took a MOOC titled Learning How to Learn. I can honestly say that it completely changed my perspective on how I do my job, teaching,...
by monnier | Apr 9, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Video
Well, ok, not you but your students. Now, when we’re in class, you know, the physical place where we met for real with other people and we don’t make each other sick (at least not that way), we tend to assume that our students will take note, especially in...
by monnier | Apr 6, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Uncategorized, Video, Yuja
And we’re back… sorta. Before we left for Spring Break, we were supposed to come back on April 12. As you all know, we’re now online until the end of the term. So, our 3-week plan turned into a full 5-week + end of the semester plan. In case you...
by monnier | Mar 26, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
Anyone who follows the current pedagogical discussions in higher education has encountered the vilification of the lecture. It’s pretentious (the much-reviled stereotype of the sage on stage), it’s boring, it’s passive, it’s anti-learning....