Teaching and Learning Centre Blog

Students — Google Apps Accounts — UPEI.ca

With your Google Apps account at UPEI.ca you have the ability to easily share, collaborate, and participate with everyone else in the UPEI community. Combining the following four apps can lead to a lot of awesomeness.

Putting the Load on: What is Cognitive Load?

So here’s one for you. You’re in you’re living room and you need a pair of…

UDL Week 4: UDL Toolkit

Yesterday was our UDL workshop, and we think it was pretty swell. This was the first step in many conversations to be had about inclusion and diversity at UPEI.

We want to take this opportunity to share a couple of UDL resources on our blog. As we build our…

UPEI Moodle Update — May 16th!

We’re working with ITSS to roll out a small update for Moodle in the next few weeks. The update should…

August is Moodle Bootcamp month! Register now!

Moodle is UPEI’s Learning Management System or LMS, which means that it’s a big collection of tools that we use to help support classes, whether they’re face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online. There’s a lot that can be done in Moodle, but it can be…

Truth, Lies and Multitasking: What you may not have realized

What would the tally be if you were to count the ways we all tend to sabotage our ability to learn or to be productive. Wouldn’t be too much, eh? We juggle multiple tasks by the hour and all with the skill of a busker in the…

Want to Learn Better? Sleep on it. Literally.

I am tired. So tired. How about you? Probably the same I would imagine. Like me, maybe it is a baby or infant that keeps you up. Or shift work. To make things worse, we go and do things that interfere with our regular sleep cycle, like stare at a…