by Christina Sabo | Oct 29, 2015 | Featured
Grading papers can be one of the most gratifying experiences of teaching, especially when students really hit it out of the park and write thoughtful, well-reasoned papers. But grading is also incredibly time consuming and the bulk of the paper grading work tends to...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 28, 2015 | Featured
Scientists have long known that visual cues play an important role in helping learners to retrieve and remember information. This makes sense, as the brain itself is essentially an image processing machine. In fact, some studies suggest that up to 90 percent of the...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 5, 2015 | Featured
Each semester, every course you teach can generate hundreds of emails. You want and need to respond to students to help them, but answering emails is just one of the many tasks you have to attend to every day. How can you make it easier on yourself and save time? Here...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured
What Are They? The MacArthur Foundation defines digital badges as: “an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. Badges are designed to make visible and validate learning in both formal and informal settings and hold the potential...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 4, 2015 | Featured
Have you ever considered using Twitter and Weebly in the classroom but aren’t sure how to do it? Have questions about how these technologies can help you engage students? Education professor April Zawlocki shares how she uses both Twitter and Weebly in the...
by HenningsenT | Aug 17, 2015 | Featured
In July, two COD writing students were featured on Wikipedia’s Education blog for work they had done in my summer composition classroom. One of those students, a Navy veteran and self-described technophobe, created a Wikipedia article — from scratch — on...
