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…
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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!…
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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…
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Incorporate Video Feedback in Teaching
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…
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Reading and Remixing: Teaching the Self-Generating Poem
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…
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Faculty Spotlight: Jon Honea
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?…
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Teaching Video Composition: The 30-Second Ad
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…
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YouTube’s Closed Captions and How You Can Make Them Better!
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…
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Customizing your word.emerson site with CSS
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,…
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Reaching all types of learners with UDL
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…
