WHAT’S INSIDE THIS ISSUE? Accreditation Forum: Distance Learning & RSI New Accessibility Tool in Canvas! Alternative Formats Easier Access to Canvas Support Discussion Alternative: Perusall + OpenStax Texts Blog Spotlight: Pope Tech – Expand your Accessibility Arsenal Appointments for Instructional Design Help In Case You Missed It 1. ACCREDITATION FORUM: DISTANCE LEARNING & RSI Join…Continue Reading News Bytes Weekly | Issue 5
WHAT’S INSIDE THIS ISSUE? Find out Fridays! OER Workshop 10/14 DEI Workgroup Opportunity FCLT News Bytes Blog Blog Spotlight: Want Students to Watch Your Videos? Appointments for Instructional Design Help In Case You Missed It …Continue Reading News Bytes Weekly | Issue 4
WHAT’S INSIDE THIS ISSUE? Find out Fridays! FCLT & LIEAL Workshops DEI Workgroup Opportunity Student Chromebook Users Appointments for Instructional Design Help Tech for Student Support In Case You Missed It 1. FIND OUT FRIDAYS! By Katie Datko The FCLT and the Library Initiative for Equitable and Affordable Learning (LIEAL) will have a series of…Continue Reading News Bytes Weekly | Issue 3
It can be a challenge to think of specific things we can do using educational technology to ensure success for our impacted students as well as Gen Z. High-Impact Practices (HIPS) are tried and true means for engagement that can push the needle forward for student achievement. Here are just a few resources that can…Continue Reading Equity Resources: Teaching from the ‘HIPS’ (High Impact Practices)
This week’s blog post talks about the value of creating moments of collaboration between students through short, formative activities. Get some ideas for simple ways to add interactivity that can get students engaged with one another and with your course content!…Continue Reading Creating Collaborative Moments that Engage Students
New Blog Series I’m excited to introduce to you a new FCLT News Bytes series on authentic assessments! Each post in this series will delve into a different type of authentic assessment. Katie’s post last week, Teaching & Learning Experts @ the FCLT, touched on authentic assessments as a strategy for reducing cheating, but authentic…Continue Reading Authentic Assessments: Blogs
Finals are just around the corner and the Winter Break and New Year are on the horizon. As you wrap up the term, you may want to consider offering students an opportunity to provide feedback about specific or general aspects of their course experience this term. This feedback is not a part of an official…Continue Reading Wrapping up Fall 2021 and Looking Ahead to 2022
Accessibility is important to us here at Mt. SAC. Our local technology and support units are always looking to implement useful methods, or simple-to-use tools and that help with the task of ensuring our content is accessible to our audience. This week we rolled out the latest installment on the list of accessibility tools available…Continue Reading Pope Tech: Expand Your Accessibility Arsenal
At InstructureCon 2021 , I attended Kona Jones’s session, How to Get Students to Watch Your Videos. I’m a big fan of Kona’s. She is Director of the Teaching & Learning Center at Richland Community College in Decatur, IL, adjunct professor of Statistics and formerly of Developmental Psychology, and a Canvas Community Coach. I’ve attended her…Continue Reading Want Students To Watch Your Videos?
InstructureCon 2021 I attended the InstructureCon online conference yesterday, Thursday, Oct. 7. To be honest, I wasn’t that excited about it this year for some reason; however, their badging system got me really into it, and I’m so glad I attended. I heard inspiring keynotes from Dr. Knatokie Ford and Will.I.Am; learned some really helpful…Continue Reading Canvas Studio Updates at InstructureCon 2021