by Christina Sabo | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured
Even if you don’t know the term, if you’ve used a computer in the past couple of decades you’ve seen an avatar. Avatars are digital graphical representations of the user, either as themselves or an alter ego, in both 2-D (like a BitMoji) and 3-D...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 16, 2018 | Accessibility, Blackboard, Featured
By and large, technology has been an incredible tool for learners with a disability, improving their independence and allowing them to utilize resources that they wouldn’t have had access to in years past. However, it hasn’t been a perfect solution. Many types...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 2, 2018 | Featured
An Introduction to Gameblox For those interesting in exploring gamification in their courses, Gameblox can be a powerful free tool for getting started. So what is Gameblox? Gameblox is a game editor that uses a block-based programming language to allow anyone, even...
by Christina Sabo | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured
With the most recent census data reporting that nearly one fifth (19.7%) of Americans have some kind of disability, accessibility is an issue that colleges and universities, and the instructors that work in them, can’t afford to ignore. That said, while accessibility...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured
Not every course can or should be an online or hybrid course. However, that doesn’t mean that instructors can’t take advantage of the variety of teaching and learning opportunities afforded by the Web, and by extension, Blackboard. Here, you’ll learn...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 26, 2016 | Featured
While it’s tempting say that good teaching is good teaching regardless of the setting, the reality is that there are real differences between what it takes to teach successfully in person versus what it takes to teach successfully online. Even adding in technology or...
