Image Credit: Toolbox by Florian Richter on Flickr, used under a CC-BY 2.0 license. As I mentioned on my List of 10 on hashtags, I’m working on a series of assignments and classroom activities that will support the “Digital Assignments…
Category: Teaching with Digital Tools
Rethinking the Structure of My Online Assignments
Full of specific and practical suggestions, Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (Jossey-Bass, 2019), by Flower Darby with James M. Lang, is a book I wish I had had when I first started teaching online. I’ve read…
Do You Know Where To Find The Answers?
Students are accustomed to the campus classroom, where the teacher is available regularly to remind them how to find the resources that they need to complete activities in a course. Instructure’s Trenton Goble suggests the five questions on this infographic…
How to Restore Deleted Files in Canvas
My favorite hidden feature in Canvas is the ability to restore files and other resources that you have deleted. Warnings: The tool is not 100% effective, so be cautious when you remove information from your course. The tool only restores…
Ten Ways to Improve Educational Videos
The move to online courses has many of us working to create videos that replace the explanations of concepts and demonstrations of skills that we would customarily do in the campus classroom. The strategies below help make those videos more…
Using Google Forms to Jump Start Your Video
Now that everyone is teaching online, active learning strategies like minute papers and muddiest point are hard to manage spontaneously. In a campus classroom, you can ask everyone to share responses out loud or on a piece of paper. In…
Online Is Different from Face-to-Face
People, you can’t teach an online course the same way you do face-to-face. Synchronous class meetings =NOT best practice. Assigning more work=NOT best practice. Videos longer than 5-10 minutes=NOT best practice #CovidCampus #digped #teamrhetoric #WPAlife #onlinelearning pic.twitter.com/y4kXAmN74J — Sara Webb-Sunderhaus…
Explain What to Do in an Emergency
Providing students with instructions on what to do in an emergency is always a good idea. It’s even more important now as all classes are moving online and many students are relying on technology resources more than they are used…
Turn Your Handout into a Video
You can make a simple video that pairs key information from a short handout with images using the free web-based tool Lumen5. You can edit the video components (the text on screen, how it appears, and the image shown). As…
Ten Tips for Moving Your Class Online Quickly
You’re probably working away at moving your class online. Even with the extra week to prepare that some of us have been given, there are weeks of work ahead of us. We’ll all have to rethink activities, change things that…