by Christine Monnier | Mar 11, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Video, Yuja
But there is this pandemic thing. What do we do if the college has to close because of the COVID-19? We know quite a few campuses have already closed and others are taking measures in case they have to. In this post, I do not want to discuss what our institutional...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 9, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Showcase, Tech to Try
I am one of those people who like to maker her work simpler and more streamlined, hence my elation at the discovery of the date management tool in Blackboard, which I posted about in an earlier post. The second key tool I use to streamline my workflow in Blackboard is...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 5, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Since someone made the mistake of giving me a soap box, I might as well use it! *Climbs on soapbox, grabs bullhorn* Well, not really. That’s it. That’s the post. 🙂 So, data is the talk of the town, especially in the context of the p-word that shall not be...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Showcase, Tech to Try
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, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity
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, Tech to Try, 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...