by Christine Monnier | Sep 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y’all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to “decode” the current discourse in a...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 17, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine note that has nothing to do with the LT office: did you guys read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education? That’s what has made AI-generated text relatively easy to spot in student work. But, to me, so far, it was more like that saying from...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 11, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Training
Let’s talk about a topic that I consider super important: our own digital practices with regards to privacy and data protection. This is, of course, related to my previous post on LLMs. The usual disclaimer: What I discuss in this post is my perspective only, It...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 9, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Events, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
Come read with me the recently published The Opposite of Cheating – Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The seminar will consist of four one-hour sessions on Zoom, starting in October, on Thursdays (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, and 10/23), from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 4, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
We need your help. As you know, we still have about 40% of faculty who have yet to migrate to Ultra. We are still trying to avoid a stampede at the end of the semester and the beginning of Spring 2026. And yet, at the Open Labs, we are starting to see adjuncts who are...
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...
