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Death to… Death by Powerpoint: Some Tools

Death to… Death by Powerpoint: Some Tools

by monnier | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Showcase, Tech to Try

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....
Death to… Death by Powerpoint!

Death to… Death by Powerpoint!

by monnier | Feb 27, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity

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...
Mind Mapping: The Answer to Everything! Part 1

Mind Mapping: The Answer to Everything! Part 1

by monnier | Feb 12, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Showcase, Tech to Try

No, seriously. Ok, here goes: And by thing I mean papers. There, I’ve said it. But seriously, I do. They do nothing for me that can’t be accomplished through better means. I mostly teach introduction to sociology here, so, my main goal is to make students...
Content Curation and Sharing Made Easy

Content Curation and Sharing Made Easy

by monnier | Feb 3, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Showcase, Tech to Try

Many of us have asked our students, at one point or another, to compile lists of sources on a variety of topics. Depending on the field or requirements, we may also have required a specific formatting (APA, MLA), a given number and type of sources, or any other...
Updating All Your Course Dates with the Date Management Tool in Blackboard

Updating All Your Course Dates with the Date Management Tool in Blackboard

by monnier | Jan 30, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Tech to Try

Colleagues, I have been so wrong for so many years in the way I handled some of my Blackboard components. Case in point: due dates. Every term, I have painstakingly gone through every items in my courses and updated them from previous terms. There is a much easier,...
The Productive Professor: The Tech Tools You Need to Get More Done When Working Remotely

The Productive Professor: The Tech Tools You Need to Get More Done When Working Remotely

by Christina Sabo | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured, Productivity, Quick Tips

Whether you’re plugging away at work over break, doing some late night grading, or teaching your online course from a distance, it can be hard to stay focused on work the same way you might in your office, whether due to the addition of distractions or the logistics...
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