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Using Microsoft Apps Inside Blackboard

Using Microsoft Apps Inside Blackboard

by Christine Monnier | Sep 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, 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...
Let’s Continue The Conversation-> Reading Seminar and Other Stuff

Let’s Continue The Conversation-> Reading Seminar and Other Stuff

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...
End of Year Recap and Summer Plans

End of Year Recap and Summer Plans

by Christine Monnier | May 20, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama, Qwickly, YuJa

As I finish this first year as Faculty Chair of Online Quality and Learning Technologies, I just thought I’d offer a recap of all the content I created over this academic year. The Foundations courses The very first thing I did was redesign entirely the LT...
PD Sessions Videos and Materials

PD Sessions Videos and Materials

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...
Why You Should Use YuJa for Your Videos

Why You Should Use YuJa for Your Videos

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...
Come Mind Map with Me and Get PDH (session added)

Come Mind Map with Me and Get PDH (session added)

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,...
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