by Christine Monnier | Apr 27, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Tech to Try
I have mentioned in previous posts the need to get creative with content, assignments, and feedback, especially with everything online in our near future. In this post, I’d like to suggest a tool that I know faculty already use: VoiceThread. It’s been...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 23, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Quick Tips
Shannon and I, that is. We decided to send out a few quick tips regarding moving from remote instruction to online teaching. Here goes: I would also like to provide a couple of resources for those of us looking for ideas and inspiration. The first one is The K....
by Christine Monnier | Apr 20, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
I read somewhere (and for the life of me I can’t remember where and I have too much to grade this week to look it up) that a good idea to help students learn is to generate a unifying theme for your students, a grand narrative of the course, so they can see that...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 15, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Tech to Try
So far, in my blog posts, I have showed you two ways to make your presentations interactive: Yuja, and H5P (with the Learning Tech folks’ caveat that we only have a few licenses). I have also shared some polling apps, my favorite being Socrative. I’d like...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 13, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
I got pet peeves. Sooooo many pet peeves. And the ubiquitous use of Zoom and other videoconferencing tools has added a few to the list! So, I got to thinking, someone should make some rule of Zoom Etiquettes (Zetiquette??). But who? WHO? Duh, ME, of course. So here...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 13, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
Back in the days of the Great MOOC Craze [periodic reminder that there are no good reasons to jump on every Gates-funded bandwagon], I took a MOOC titled Learning How to Learn. I can honestly say that it completely changed my perspective on how I do my job, teaching,...