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…
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,…
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…
Introducing Canvas Commons
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…
Quizzes Can Be Used for Learning!
One of the most interesting (and easy) strategies for helping students learn that I’ve encountered recently centers around quizzing. Yes, quizzing, the thing students dread to take and teachers dread…
Choose an image to represent your Canvas course
The Canvas dashboard currently looks like this to students: As of last weekend, those plain color blocks can now be replaced by images and even GIFs! To find out how,…
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Fall 2014 Faculty Showcase Series
In November and December of 2014, we invited Emerson faculty with exemplary use of technology in their instruction to share their methods and impact with other members of the community….
File naming standards: eliminate future headaches
There are a lot of reasons that file naming standards should be your best friends. They are rad, responsible, and reliable. Just like the three R’s of old. But most…
Faculty Showcase: Student Work
Recently, Walker 416 was filled to capacity with faculty, staff, and pizza; all gathered together for the latest in ITG’s Faculty Showcases. The topic this semester was “student interaction”, and…
2013 Faculty Technology Survey Results!
In the spring of 2013, ITG asked the faculty what they thought about educational technology at Emerson. A good mix of full time (46%) and part-time (54%) faculty from all…