So a faculty member asked me a few days ago how she can put things in canvas that will make it more fun for students. ANGEL had graded crosswords, and a couple of other tools that could be added in.
Apps
This weeks post is focused around this article we found the other week and a general discussion around the skills we need as instructors to be effective in our use of technology. Without looking at the article first, we decided to discuss and come with our own list…
Canvas Apps are great. Here’s a quick overview:
Canvas — On the iOS App Store
This is the canvas app that first came out for iOS and Android. Students could view content, participate in discussions and submit work in a limited fashion. This app…
More and more these days, people are using “The Cloud” for work and school.
The idea that we need files to download and work with is becoming less and less of a necessity.
Generally, when you enroll in college, you see different courses in the catalog.
“What’s this? Online. That makes sense. It’s an online course.”
Over the years, I have been quite vocal in my opposition to high stakes testing as a means to assess learning. The example I always gave was this:
“What if a student’s mom died the night before the big test? How do you think they would do? Does this mean they…
Me: “So why do you want to use ______?”
Instructor: “Because it’ll be cool”
Me: “So why do you want to buy ______?”
“Because we have the…
This last academic year, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a Faculty Learning Community at work, in which we looked at digital vs. print reading and what we could do as educators to support readers of all kinds on campus. The following is something I wrote to support our…
After attending #opened15 last week, there were lots of sessions talking about open textbooks. Some folks are for, and some against, with Amanda Coolidge weighing in this morning on the real purpose of these projects: to save students money…
We all want to give our students flexibility, that’s why we offer online, hybrid, flipped and other models of delivery these days, but the question becomes ‘How flexible is too flexible’?