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 | Feb 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
What am I reading? This article from 404 Media (one of my favorite tech publication): A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 9, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Training
When the Learning Technologies office surveyed faculty about the type of training people wanted, quite a few of you answered that you’d like training offered during winter break (both before and after the Holidays), with a marked preference for Zoom sessions. So...
