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…
2013 Student Technology Survey Results!
In the spring, ITG asked students their views about educational technology at Emerson. As with the 2013 faculty survey, we were eagerly awaiting answers to the question “What do you…
The Power of File Restriction in Canvas
Don’t want students uploading a .docx instead of a .pdf? Or a .pages file at any point in time? Well you can, because Canvas allows File Restrictions! While editing your…
WordPress Habits of Mind
Photo: WordPress Stickers Everywhere / teamstickergiant / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ We are big fans of WordPress here at ITG. It’s highly customizable with thousands of free themes and plugins. However, such flexibility…
Best Practices in WordPress Accessibility Design
Web accessibility word cloud / itjil / CC BY 2.0 Why Designing for accessibility means that you end up with a site that is clear and helpful to everyone. More…