by Christine Monnier | May 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
As you all probably know by now, there isn’t a lot of visual customization that can be done in Ultra. But there is one thing you can do to personalize the look of your course (and for me, to differentiate all my intro shells on my Blackboard landing page without...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 22, 2024 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Tech to Try
Let’s take a break from Ultra for a second here. We need to talk about Padlet. There is actually A LOT to talk about, when it comes to Padlet, so this is only the first post in a series. And I would also add that now is a great time to join Padlet because their...
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 23, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Quick Tips
Shannon and I, that is. We decided to send out a few quick tips regarding moving from remote instruction to online teaching. Here goes: I would also like to provide a couple of resources for those of us looking for ideas and inspiration. The first one is The K....
by Christine Monnier | Apr 20, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
I read somewhere (and for the life of me I can’t remember where and I have too much to grade this week to look it up) that a good idea to help students learn is to generate a unifying theme for your students, a grand narrative of the course, so they can see that...