Emerson.build: Rule Your Domain!
Emerson.build has been building a larger following! If you haven’t heard of it, Emerson.build is a pilot of Reclaim Hosting’s “Domain of One’s Own” program. It allows any Emersonian to…
Making your videos useful for all your students
Nice Public Service Announcement from the University of Cincinnati: You can always add automatic speech recognition captions to your Panopto videos and then edit the captions for accuracy. The same…
In a Nutshell: How to Use the New Canvas Scheduler
Official guides for tools like Canvas and Panopto are dense out of necessity—the authors need to cover EVERYTHING about each topic. In this series, “In a Nutshell,” I’ll condense frequently…
Introducing Deep Embeds: An Easier Way to Show Videos in Canvas
You’ve probably heard that Panopto, Emerson’s video-hosting platform, underwent a major update this summer. Now you can simply embed Panopto videos in Canvas, and students will automatically be able to…
Identify Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
Online educational tools provide engaging environments for students with various needs. However, exploring new tools can be time-consuming for students without any advice on how to select the appropriate learning…
Digital Journalism Innovation with Emerson.build
On March 21st, the Iwasaki Library and Instructional Technology Group held its 3rd annual Innovation@Emerson Faculty Showcase. The event featured a variety of professional development initiatives that Emerson offers and…
Invisible Boston: An Emerson.Build Project
On March 21st, the Iwasaki Library and Instructional Technology Group held its 3rd annual Innovation@Emerson Faculty Showcase. The event featured a variety of professional development initiatives that Emerson offers and…
Ways of Implementing UDL principles in Canvas
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…
How to Embed Videos in Omeka Items
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!…
Don’t Generalize Generations
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…