by Christine Monnier | Feb 1, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Greetings, colleagues. For this first post, I thought I’d just do a basic overview of the Ultra Course View (UCV) in comparison with our current course view. This will give you a first impression of what to expect. So, here is the basic landing page of my 8-week...
by Christine Monnier | Jan 29, 2024 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
By popular demand (not really), I am resurrecting my blogging in collaboration with the Learning Technology office. I received a lot of good feedback from the last time I did this, so, hopefully, you guys will find my posts interesting and helpful. However, this time...
by Christine Monnier | May 6, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Quick Tips, Showcase, Tech to Try, Video, Yuja
Well, folks, this is it: my last post of the term (because next week is finals and I’m going to be swamped). I want to thank everyone who did the clicky thing 28 times… that’s right, I wrote 28 posts (including this one) for this blog over the course...
by Christine Monnier | May 4, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
So far, in these posts, I have mostly discussed tech tools or Blackboard features that I like, think are useful, and use with various frequency. In this post, I want to turn the tables and talk about the tools and features I don’t like, the tools I don’t...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 30, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Uncategorized
Remember when metacognition was going to be the theme for the semester (year?) and we all got a free book (raise your hands, how many of you read it??)? And then the world pandemic hit and our priorities shifted to making to the end of the term on remote instruction....
by Christine Monnier | Apr 27, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Tech to Try
I have mentioned in previous posts the need to get creative with content, assignments, and feedback, especially with everything online in our near future. In this post, I’d like to suggest a tool that I know faculty already use: VoiceThread. It’s been...