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  • October 13, 2021February 2, 2023
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Building an Escape Room With Google Forms

  • Digital Humanities
A person with a backpack stands at the divergence of two paths in a forest.

The adventure continues! Back in August, I wrote a post comparing course design to Dungeons & Dragons and promised to share some tools and ideas for gamified activities you can try yourself. This is the first: an escape-the-room/choose-your-own-adventure-style puzzle you can create using Google Forms. […]

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  • August 10, 2021February 2, 2023
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How to Run Your Course Like a Game of Dungeons & Dragons

  • Digital Humanities
A gameboard on which a group of small adventurer figures confronts a large red troll figure.

What does Dungeons & Dragons have in common with course design? More than you’d think. Role-playing games like D&D involve a group of distractible adventurers telling a story together with the help of a “game moderator” (GM) who establishes the world, gives the party their […]

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  • February 17, 2021August 5, 2021
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Three Strategies for Building Online Community

  • Canvas
An illustration of an apartment complex, each window with a figure dancing, signing, or playing music to each other.

Welcome to the new home of ITG’s Instructional Technology Blog! We’ll be posting advice, tips, and strategies for making the most of your digital tools. Check back often for ways to breathe new life into your Canvas courses, spice up your Zoom sessions, craft engaging Panopto videos, and more!

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  • October 7, 2019February 17, 2021
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How to Help Students Become Digital Storytellers

  • Learning Sciences
A camcorder rests on a stump with a statue displayed on its screen. Prayer beads wrap around the stump and camcorder.

We Emersonians know that you don’t need to be a grizzled rogue with a lute to be a storyteller. Nor do you need to read or listen passively as stories are told. It is now possible for anyone⁠—including students⁠—to engage in creative, academic, and journalistic […]

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  • June 11, 2019February 17, 2021
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In a Nutshell: Canvas Announcements

  • Canvas
The Announcements tool in Canvas, with the + Announcement button marked at top-right.

“In a Nutshell” condenses frequently requested instructions into practical, bite-sized chunks. Learn a new tool in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee! What’s the quickest way to send a message to your entire class (and be reasonably sure they see it)? […]

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  • March 8, 2019
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Emerson.build: Rule Your Domain!

  • Emerson.build

Emerson.build has been building a larger following! If you haven’t heard of it, Emerson.build is a pilot of Reclaim Hosting’s “Domain of One’s Own” program. It allows any Emersonian to register a free web domain, install content management systems (CMS) in it like WordPress or […]

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  • November 29, 2018
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In a Nutshell: How to Use the New Canvas Scheduler

  • Canvas

Official guides for tools like Canvas and Panopto are dense out of necessity—the authors need to cover EVERYTHING about each topic. In this series, “In a Nutshell,” I’ll condense frequently requested instructions into practical, bite-sized chunks. Learn a new tool in the time it takes […]

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  • September 7, 2018
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Introducing Deep Embeds: An Easier Way to Show Videos in Canvas

  • Canvas

You’ve probably heard that Panopto, Emerson’s video-hosting platform, underwent a major update this summer. Now you can simply embed Panopto videos in Canvas, and students will automatically be able to view them! Here’s more about what this change means for your teaching. What you don’t […]

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  • February 9, 2018
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How to Embed Videos in Omeka Items

  • Emerson.build

Are you a librarian, archivist, or scholar interested in creating your own digital collection? Omeka, one of the tools you can install on your Emerson.build domain, might be for you! Omeka is a content management system similar in some ways to WordPress or Drupal, but […]

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  • October 31, 2017
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Reading and Remixing: Teaching the Self-Generating Poem

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One iteration of Montfort's "Taroko Gorge"

One memorable afternoon in my Digital Literature class from a couple of years ago, I introduced my students to Nick Montfort’s digital poem “Taroko Gorge.” The students watched, enchanted, as the poem’s text cascaded down the forest green page. The gentle pacing created by the […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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What We’re Reading

Check out ITG’s Diigo Group to see what we’ve been reading lately.

Categories

  • Accessibility
  • Canvas
  • Digital Humanities
  • Emerson.build
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  • Explore
  • Faculty Showcase
  • Google
  • Guest Blog Post
  • Learning Sciences
  • Panopto
  • Uncategorized
  • WordPress
  • Zoom

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