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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes One way students personalize physical textbooks and review course content is by annotating and writing in the margins. Learning technologies like Perusall expand on this idea by allowing students to… Read More »Increasing Student Engagement with Social Annotation
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Note: This post is part of our recently initiated Digital Detox series, which is designed to be in conversation with the Digital Detox resources at Middlebury College and Thompson Rivers… Read More »Digital Detox 3: Harm reduction and abstinence with Canvas analytics
Estimated reading time 3 minutes 45 seconds. In the weeks since the outcome of the US presidential election, there has been a lot of rhetoric around healing and coming together. We are, as a society… Read More »Restorative gestures in higher education
Read time: 4min 50seconds So the digital detoxes have kicked off at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Middlebury and they have my wheels turning. If you missed it, I proposed a digital detox here at… Read More »Digital Detox 2: How To and Recap
I was excited that I had the opportunity to present an interactive workshop called Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom on Tuesday the 19th of 2021. Since it was interactive workshop recording would have… Read More »Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom
How to streamline your course menu for students benefit By Chris Casey, University Coordinator of Digital Education together with Jessica Riviere, Instructional Consultant On November 18th, Chris Casey and Jessica Riviere presented very briefly on… Read More »Hiding Menu Items
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Discussion board activities offer an opportunity for students to share their knowledge, debate, and otherwise interact with each other. Have your students been complaining about discussion board assignments, calling them… Read More »Tired of “post once, respond twice”? Rethinking discussion board activities
Teaching after a national crisis brings challenges of context, resources, emotions, and, at the start of a semester, rapport. This list of resources was generated for and at our January 7th Hub Coffee Hour, Teaching… Read More »Resources for Teaching after the Capitol Insurrection
The new year is traditionally a time of renewal and rejuvenation with resolutions abound, complete with goals and intentions. A few years ago I was struck by the digital detox initiatives out of Middlebury College… Read More »Digital Detox 2021 – The Digital Learning Community in a Pandemic
One of the most important things to consider when teaching online, is about finding ways to provide appropriate and effective feedback to students. Giving students feedback is even more important for online classes simply because… Read More »Time-Saving Strategies for Providing Feedback in Online Classes