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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
