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 Christine Monnier | Feb 5, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
A tougher read from the usual pedagogy stuff I usually read. Derek Bruff organizes his book alongside strategies and principles derived from the scholarship of teaching and learning: (1) Times for telling: giving students a hard problem or challenging experience can...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Many of us have asked our students, at one point or another, to compile lists of sources on a variety of topics. Depending on the field or requirements, we may also have required a specific formatting (APA, MLA), a given number and type of sources, or any other...
by Christine Monnier | Jan 30, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Colleagues, I have been so wrong for so many years in the way I handled some of my Blackboard components. Case in point: due dates. Every term, I have painstakingly gone through every items in my courses and updated them from previous terms. There is a much easier,...
