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News Bytes Weekly | Issue 8

What’s inside this issue? Find Out Fridays: Course Design 101 (Nov. 18) Regular & Substantive Interaction One-on-One Appointments Cool Learning Opportunities Blog Spotlight: Welcome Home – Course Card & Home Page Tips for Humanizing Appointments for Instructional Design and RSI Help for Distance Learning In Case You Missed It…Continue Reading News Bytes Weekly | Issue 8

Want Students To Watch Your Videos?

Kona Jones presenting virtually

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?

Welcome Home: Course Card & Home Page Tips for Humanizing

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Photo by LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash The Presentation This fall, I signed up for CVC and @ONE’s Fall into Humanized Online Teaching: A Pathway to Equity series. The series consists of bi-monthly sessions on Fridays from September to November. The remaining sessions may be taken a la carte with no deadline to register. What’s more, a la…Continue Reading Welcome Home: Course Card & Home Page Tips for Humanizing

Flip It, Flip It Good! Humanize with Flipgrid

Are you teaching an online asynchronous course? Do you want to add a video-based humanizing element to your course? Have you been wanting to try Flipgrid? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this post is for you! What is Flipgrid? In case you haven’t heard of Flipgrid, it is a video…Continue Reading Flip It, Flip It Good! Humanize with Flipgrid