by Christine Monnier | Mar 11, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
If you are like me and you have a lot of videos that you use in your course, you can just have them in your default folder in whichever video hosting platform you use. YuJa allows you to create folders to organize your video collections. Note: folders and playlists...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 5, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
Consider this post my attempt to get y’all to stop using YouTube for your videos. Someone asked me if it was possible to create playlists in YuJa. The answer is yes. Follow along, Log into YuJa. First, you will need to create your playlist. To do that, click on...
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 18, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
Yup, Blackboard brought back a thing that had been removed in Ultra. Care to guess what it is? (Some of you asked me about it a while back) Yup, it’s the conditional release (in original) or release condition (in Ultra) based on submission. For those of you...
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 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
What am I reading? This article from 404 Media (one of my favorite tech publication): A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which...
