by Christine Monnier | Feb 18, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
Yup, Blackboard brought back a thing that had been removed in Ultra. Care to guess what it is? (Some of you asked me about it a while back) Yup, it’s the conditional release (in original) or release condition (in Ultra) based on submission. For those of you...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 12, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development, Training
Y’all know mind maps are my thing but I have never formally offered workshops on this. This changes today! As you know, if you read Jenn Kelley’s emails (and of course you do!), I am offering a workshop on mind mapping on Wednesday, March 12, from 2 to 4,...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
What am I reading? This article from 404 Media (one of my favorite tech publication): A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 10, 2024 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Online Teaching, Professional Development, Training
I have been pestering y’all to move to Ultra and I will continue to do that until January 2026 when our conversion will be complete. So you have to look forward to a whole year of me being annoying about Ultra. However, one half of my faculty chair duties have...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 9, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Training
When the Learning Technologies office surveyed faculty about the type of training people wanted, quite a few of you answered that you’d like training offered during winter break (both before and after the Holidays), with a marked preference for Zoom sessions. So...
