Building an Escape Room With Google Forms
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…
Thinking About “Productive Failure” in Your Teaching
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…
Canvas Shared Content
Here’s a little-known Canvas feature: Shared Content. In fact, it’s so obscure that it didn’t make it onto ITG’s radar until recently. Ooh, shiny! But what exactly does it do?…
Fall 2021 Faculty Development Offerings from ITG
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…
Word.emerson’s new home
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…
Faculty Virtual Course Design Spa
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…
How to Run Your Course Like a Game of Dungeons & Dragons
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…
Should you create assignments for readings in your Canvas course?
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…
Zoom New Feature Roundup
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.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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…