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Author: Christopher Connors

  • October 31, 2023October 26, 2023
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Do you DIG it?

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We’ve all been there, and it usually happens at the worst possible time. You’re already running late, and the cell connection on your phone isn’t loading the map app. Or, you’ve been waiting for that new episode to come out on your favorite streaming platform, […]

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  • October 12, 2021February 2, 2023
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Thinking About “Productive Failure” in Your Teaching

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Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery, hmm… but weakness, folly, failure also. Yes: failure, most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is.  Jedi Master Yoda   In early October of 2021, I finally got around to visiting Martha’s Vineyard so I could see […]

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  • April 12, 2019
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“Pedagogy” in Higher Education

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Everyone seems to have a hill they will die on. A (sometimes) irrational fixation on something that will cause eye-rolling and heavy sighing among others when one starts to sound off and draw out the artillery to defend such hill. For me, that hill is […]

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  • December 11, 2017
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Don’t Generalize Generations

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In this day and age, it seems you can’t read the Internet without coming across some kind of attention-grabbing headline about how Millennials are destroying an industry, or changing how employers are hiring, or how they present some other obstacle to keeping the world the […]

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  • January 12, 2017
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Quizzes Can Be Used for Learning!

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One of the most interesting (and easy) strategies for helping students learn that I’ve encountered recently centers around quizzing. Yes, quizzing, the thing students dread to take and teachers dread to correct. However, much of the negative feelings around quizzes and tests is caused by […]

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  • March 10, 2014
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Faculty Showcase: Student Work

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Recently, Walker 416 was filled to capacity with faculty, staff, and pizza; all gathered together for the latest in ITG’s Faculty Showcases. The topic this semester was “student interaction”, and we at ITG were lucky to get three outstanding professors to present: Kevin Miller of […]

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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
  • Events
  • Explore
  • Faculty Showcase
  • Google
  • Guest Blog Post
  • Learning Sciences
  • Panopto
  • Uncategorized
  • WordPress
  • Zoom

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