by Christine Monnier | Feb 12, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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 Christine Monnier | Feb 10, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
That was some clickbait, wasn’t it? It will be worth it, I promise. Colleagues, here is a problem I have faced for a long time: I use a lot of video materials (hello, PBS Frontline!), but my students do not know how to watch videos. That’s right. They can...
by Christina Sabo | Jul 28, 2015 | Featured
Many, if not most, of today’s online students are active and enthusiastic consumers of a wide range of video-based media, from watching short clips on YouTube and Vimeo to streaming entire movies and TV shows on Netflix. This interest opens up a range of opportunities...
