Author Archives: Ines
Simplify Your Bb Course List
If your list of courses is long and overwhelming, there are solutions! You can either: re-sort the list so that your current course spaces show at the top, or hide older courses from the list (and restore them again, if … Continue reading
Collecting Student Work with the Bb Assignment Tool
For many instructors, the Blackboard (Bb) Assignment Tool is a helpful time saver. A few of the advantages are: there are no papers to haul around—they live in Bb feedback and grades can be distributed within Bb the rubric tool … Continue reading
Student Engagement Tip: Sequence Matters
The recency and primacy effects—long documented phenomena related to the importance of sequence on information recall—evidence that, in short, “Following a single exposure to learning, recall is better for items at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) […] than for … Continue reading
The Humanities and Google Earth
In short, one of the principles of Universal Design for Learning is that if you offer students multiple options for exploring content and expressing what they’ve learned, their experience is richer and more meaningful—and this gives their learning “sticking power.” … Continue reading
5 Tips for the First Day of Class
Tip #1: Learn names. Jonathan Leonard (CDAE) makes the effort to learn every student’s name, even in classes with over 150 students! What’s his strategy? On the class roster page he displays the students’ photos and, while studying each face, … Continue reading
ACCESS Office Open House
Disability Awareness Month: ACCESS Office Open House Friday, October 28, 2:00-4:00 pm A-170 Living Learning Center ACCESS will host an open house (drop-in) for faculty and staff. The director, specialists and other ACCESS support staff will be available to have … Continue reading
A Moment on MERLOT 2008
My conference event this year found me in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the “City of Lakes”, for the MERLOT International Conference (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Serving as a multimedia developer for the Center for Teaching & Learning I … Continue reading
Lights, Camera, Learn! Workshop resources
We hope you have enjoyed participating in our workshop today. iMovie is one of our favorite software packages to learn. Below we have included a list of for the workshop for Educational Value as well as general How To’s. Feel … Continue reading
Compose & Edit Audio Files for the Web
November 2nd, 2007 Here is a collection of resources both used in today’s class as well as additional resources Flickr: Search on “Vermont” under creative commons license Flickr search results In addition to the resources we have discussed today in … Continue reading