Whatcha’ Watchin’? – Excellent Streaming Video Resources
Since students love watching videos, a new blog series titled “Watcha’ Watchin’?” will focus on three excellent streaming media resources…
YouTube Videos for Face-to-Face and Hybrid Classes – CTLE Summer 2018 Grant
Guest post by Kim Smith, Chemistry Faculty Hello Faculty – Making YouTube videos for your classes could not be easier…
Designing Better Digital Learning Experiences
Recently I attended the Instructional Technology Council’s eLearning Conference in Tucson. The final keynote was given by Maria Andersen, “the…
Online Student Conference Scheduling for Faculty
Teaching online has its challenges for both students and instructors. For instructors, we struggle with not being able to just…
Storytelling in Instructional Media
Recently, while helping a GCC Reading faculty member, I stumbled on this wonderful YouTube channel called Help U Conquer, which…
Webinar: Copyright Made Simple for Digital Educators
If you missed the Copyright Made Simple for Digital Educators webinar yesterday, good news: it was recorded. The recorded video with…
Canvas Mobile Annotations
On September 28, 2016, Instructure released the Student Annotations feature of the Canvas Mobile App for iOS and Android. This…
Improving Retention in Online Courses Takes Work, But Do Retention Techniques Really Help?
I’ve been teaching online now for 18 years. Makes me sound old, especially since so many instructors are brand new…
Students Not Doing the Reading in Your Online Class? Track Engagement Using Canvas & Softchalk
I get tons of email every day, and it can be quite overwhelming at times. But there’s nothing better than…
Canvas Mobile Friendliness
Canvas Mobile Awareness Thanks to Tom Gibbons, Instructional Designer for eLearning at South Seattle College, for this video demonstrating the…
Mobile Minions: the Valentine Edition
If you haven’t done this already, now is a great time to experience a Canvas course through the eyes of…
Best Practices for Teaching Online
It is no secret that the online learning environment provides both opportunities and challenges. Whether you are new to teaching…
New Turnitin Integration in Canvas: Setting Up an Assignment Step by Step
Due to a change in the way that Turnitin and Canvas work together, the old method of sending an assignment…
Help Students Prepare for Online Learning by Requiring the eCourses Student Orientation
Online courses have been quite popular at the college level, and that is true here at GCC as well. Our…
“Old” Canvas Guides Are Staying So We Can Embed in Our Courses
Instructure to maintain both sets of Guides indefinitely so we can embed Guides content into Canvas Courses.
