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

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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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  • 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, 2017March 28, 2023
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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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  • 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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  • October 11, 2017
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Faculty Spotlight: Jon Honea

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In this first of a series of interviews with Emerson faculty, we talk with Jon Honea about how he uses technology to enhance his teaching… What courses do you teach? Ecology and Conservation, Science and Politics of Water, Energy, and Sustainability, Science in Translation: Environmental […]

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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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  • June 26, 2017
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YouTube’s Closed Captions and How You Can Make Them Better!

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You can flag YouTube videos for captioning? Yep, and the law is on your side! YouTube has more than one billion auto-captioned videos. They’ve been developing tools to engage the community in an effort to make those captions more accurate. Some channels let users contribute […]

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  • June 16, 2017
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Customizing your word.emerson site with CSS

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When using a WordPress blog (either on word.emerson.edu or emerson.build) for a course, the theme you choose will provide certain options for customization. To make style changes beyond those options, you will need to dip into the site’s CSS. Note: If you choose to use […]

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  • February 10, 2017February 9, 2021
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Reaching all types of learners with UDL

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You may have heard the term UDL buzzing around lately in your education circles. It stands for Universal Design for Learning and is a guiding tenet for us here in ITG. The term Universal Design originated in the world of architecture. It emphasizes designing to […]

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  • January 13, 2017
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Introducing Canvas Commons

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Find more information in the Commons guides ITG and the Iwasaki Library have started you off with some Emerson content in Commons: if you search for Emerson College, the first results are from us. We’ve shared an Emerson College syllabus template, a student research page for […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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