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  • September 16, 2021February 2, 2023
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Fall 2021 Faculty Development Offerings from ITG

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ITG is excited to announce our Fall Faculty Development series. We will continue to offer live Zoom workshops to faculty and have developed a new 4-week course on Universal Design for Learning. Read on for more details. Live Sessions Most weeks of the semester, we […]

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  • September 10, 2021February 2, 2023
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Word.emerson’s new home

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Over the summer, Word.emerson.edu, our WordPress multisite installation for teaching and learning moved from its home on Emerson’s servers to a new home with Reclaim Hosting. Ideally, the transfer hasn’t been noticeable for you or your students. We have gotten some reports of growing pains […]

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  • August 12, 2021February 2, 2023
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Faculty Virtual Course Design Spa

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Save the dates! The Course Design Spa is back, virtual, and even bigger than ever!  The Course Design Spa is your one-stop shop for everything you need to get your semester off to a great start. And because we know that August is a busy […]

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

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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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  • August 3, 2021February 2, 2023
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Should you create assignments for readings in your Canvas course?

  • Canvas

Last April, I co-wrote a blog post with Jodi Burrel titled Tidying Up Canvas to Help Students Stay Organized. It was a follow up to a workshop we developed together about course design strategies based on student feedback. The main purpose of these design tips […]

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  • June 8, 2021February 2, 2023
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13 Things You Can do in Canvas to Make Your Life Easier

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As an instructional technologist, one comment I often hear from faculty is “I never knew you could do this in Canvas, I wish I knew about this earlier.” Here’s our list of Canvas hidden gems that will make your life easier as an instructor. Tik Toks courtesy of Lauren Burlison aka @canvaslmsqueen!

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  • June 1, 2021February 2, 2023
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Zoom New Feature Roundup

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Wondering if you’re up to speed on all the latest Zoom features? Here’s our roundup of the best new features that have been added to Zoom since Spring 2020! If you need to, be sure to update your Zoom app to the most recent version before trying these out.

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  • May 25, 2021February 2, 2023
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day

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Every year, the third Thursday of May marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day to teach and focus on digital access and inclusion. This year, GAAD fell on May 20th, this past Thursday. More than ever, we are and should continue increasing accessibility. Accessibility […]

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  • April 6, 2021February 2, 2023
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Tidying Up Canvas to Help Students Stay Organized

  • Canvas

In the Spring of 2021, ITG teamed up with the WARC to give a workshop titled “Tidying Up Canvas to Help Students Stay Organized.” In this blog post, we’ll review our top tips for time management and organization in Canvas that we shared in that session, and our path for getting there.

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  • March 30, 2021April 1, 2021
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Theodore “Regge” Life on teaching during the pandemic: the ups, the downs, and takeaways for a post-Covid future

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Last week, we sat down with Theodore “Regge” Life, Senior Distinguished Director-in-Residence, VMA to discuss his experiences with teaching during the pandemic over the last year.

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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
  • WordPress
  • Zoom

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