by Christine Monnier | Apr 22, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
A couple of weeks ago, I presented on mind-mapping to some of you. In case anyone is interested, you can find the video and materials I used for the presentation in YuJa. Note that the video is indexed for searchability. You can also find my mind mapping video...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 3, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
As you know, the college has its own kinda YouTube platform: YuJa (which you can access at cod.yuja.com, with your COD login and password). I would like to make the case that you should use it as video hosting platform. First, YouTube is a cesspool, and like most Big...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 12, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development, Training
Y’all know mind maps are my thing but I have never formally offered workshops on this. This changes today! As you know, if you read Jenn Kelley’s emails (and of course you do!), I am offering a workshop on mind mapping on Wednesday, March 12, from 2 to 4,...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 5, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger
Here we are, end of Fall 2024, almost a year away from the completion of our switch to Ultra, I thought I’d do a recap of all the ground I covered so far, in my position of faculty chair of online quality and learning technology. You can find all my posts below....
by Christine Monnier | Nov 18, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations, Qwickly
I have already blogged about the attendance module in Ultra and how to set up attendance in your gradebook. You can find the post here. There is one BIG problem with using that tool: you cannot change the total point value for attendance. It is set at 100 and...
