by Christine Monnier | Sep 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 28, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Disclaimer the first: The following post reflects my position and my position only. It does not involve the office of Learning Technologies in any way. Disclaimer the second: When discussing AI, I am mostly talking about LLMs, not all forms of automation. Disclaimer...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 26, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
That is, the 40% among you who haven’t yet switched to Ultra. As Michelle Whitman noted at kick-off, don’t wait until Winter break to get going. It would be really great to avoid a stampede at the end of Fall or the beginning of Spring, as that would...
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...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 24, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
A while back, I wrote a post about what, exactly, the plan was for our transition to Ultra. It all started with a pilot only a year ago. Then a lot of training from the Learning Technologies department. And, for some of us, a progressive transition to Ultra. The key...
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...
