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  • December 7, 2021December 7, 2021
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Why – and how – to teach students to reflect

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Written by Liz Chase and Natalie Hebshie Your students see that they’ve been assigned a “reflection” as part of your class. This usually prompts a range of reactions from my students: “Oh good, this will be easy.” “Ugh, I already did the assignment, why do […]

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  • October 12, 2021October 13, 2021
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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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  • February 17, 2021August 5, 2021
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Three Strategies for Building Online Community

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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

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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 27, 2019February 17, 2021
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Access to Learning Analytics inside Canvas

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This article provides instructors with tutorials for accessing course and student analytics in Canvas. Canvas Analytics provides an overview of students’ activity within your course. You can use this data in correlation with student performance to inform instructional decisions in your course. Course Analytics Overview […]

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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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  • February 21, 2018February 11, 2021
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Ways of Implementing UDL principles in Canvas

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As educators, we tend to replicate techniques we are comfortable using while assuming our students are OK with them. But in fact, our learners differ in ways that “they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them”, and learners differ in ways in which […]

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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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  • November 17, 2017February 11, 2021
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Incorporate Video Feedback in Teaching

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In traditional educational contexts, providing meaningful feedback to students can enhance their learning and improve their learning performance. In online teaching contexts or in response to assignments submitted for formal assessment, providing written feedback is considered to be the most commonly used format. Research shows […]

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  • August 10, 2017February 9, 2021
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Teaching Video Composition: The 30-Second Ad

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As hard as this may be to believe, the traditional written essay isn’t always the most engaging assignment for students. I’d also venture to say that after spending the better part of a semester grading written essays, even instructors tend to wish for a change […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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