by Christine Monnier | Mar 11, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
But there is this pandemic thing. What do we do if the college has to close because of the COVID-19? We know quite a few campuses have already closed and others are taking measures in case they have to. In this post, I do not want to discuss what our institutional...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 9, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
I am one of those people who like to maker her work simpler and more streamlined, hence my elation at the discovery of the date management tool in Blackboard, which I posted about in an earlier post. The second key tool I use to streamline my workflow in Blackboard is...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 5, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Since someone made the mistake of giving me a soap box, I might as well use it! *Climbs on soapbox, grabs bullhorn* Well, not really. That’s it. That’s the post. 🙂 So, data is the talk of the town, especially in the context of the p-word that shall not be...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a designer. This is not my field. I’m just a community college prof trying to use best practice to the best of my abilities. In this post, I want to showcase some of the tools that I use the most commonly with respect to design....
by Christine Monnier | Feb 27, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Death by the powerpoint. We’ve all experienced it, more often than we’d like. You know what it is: that lengthy presentation with a speaker reading slides tightly packed with text, font size -16. It’s deadly. We usually remember nothing from such...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 22, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video
Why did no one tell me about this??? And by this, I mean H5P, the tech tool to create interactive content. H5P is available in Blackboard, with a ton of options. Because it is such a multifaceted tool though, you should create yourself an account over at h5p.org so...
