by Christine Monnier | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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 Christine Monnier | Feb 27, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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 Christine Monnier | Feb 22, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video
Why did no one tell me about this??? And by this, I mean H5P, the tech tool to create interactive content. H5P is available in Blackboard, with a ton of options. Because it is such a multifaceted tool though, you should create yourself an account over at h5p.org so...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 19, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
This post is a two-fer. It is part book review and part tech tool. At this point, we all have to contend with the fact that our students do not use effective studying / learning strategies. More than that, they may use strategies that are detrimental to their...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 17, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
In this second part, I want to show you how useful mind maps can be in mapping actual content. I have already mentioned the benefits I see in mapping as opposed to traditional assignments and papers. Most often, I use mapping when students work with videos. This is...
