by Will | Mar 1, 2021 | Interwebs
Every now and again we come across articles with some very quick practicality for teaching online courses. And where we often focus on designing your course, instructor presence in an online course is probably one of the biggest contributors of student retention...
by Will | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Intelligent Agents in iCollege let instructors send automated reminders to their students about things like remembering to log in or submitting upcoming assignments. In this video, Michael Bradley, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Perimeter College walks us...
by Will | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Well, fancy meeting you here, friend! Was it the title that got you to click the link? Well, excellent! I’m glad we’re both interested in how it is that we transform our teaching to do what is best for our online students. Teaching online clearly...
by Will | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
We, at CETL, are always amazed by professors for the many things that you do. Be it the clarity of expression of ideas, or the inspiration that you provide for students outside of the major, or the ways that you help shape the life goals of so many students. On a very...
by Will | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to GSU’s John Weber from the Mathematics department and our very own Garrett Dehart (not pictured) for winning the NSF’s, We Are Mathematics Video Competition! The video promotes John’s project SMILES (with fellow PIs Dennis Pearl...
by Will | May 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Metacognition is one of my favorite unsung heroes in learning. Without reflecting back on how you achieved the results that you achieved and considering the means by which you learn, you will be less likely to achieve success in the future. However, most reading...
by Will | Mar 12, 2019 | Cool Tools
Think data visualization just isn’t clicking for your innovation-loving students? Try data sonification! TwoTone allows you to convert your datasets into sound. Now, this may sound like it’s just for the novelty of things, but it also serves an...
by Will | Feb 22, 2019 | Interwebs
Campus Technology published an article about some research conducted by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington that was just published in Science Advances (yes, I just gave you the link to both a summary...
by Will | Jul 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t heard about the Staff Innovators Program, I hate to say it, but you have sadly missed out. Like the wise Tony the Tiger once said: It’s Grrrrr-eat! In fact, take a second and read a bit about it here so you’re prepped to hear about my experience as...
by Will | May 5, 2017 | Cool Tools
It was only a matter of time. Years back, WordLens showed the world a camera app that could be pointed towards any text & instantly translate it. Google bought it & includes it now in their Translate app. Then PhotoMath & MathPix entered the scene &...
by Will | Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
So, you just had the most amazing assignments turned in from your students, and you’re proud of your effort and want to show them off – what do you do? In the far-removed past, you may hire a barker to scream about it around ye olde village, or perhaps...
by Will | Aug 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
In collaboration with the Honors College, CETL is very happy to announce Edge, a new online magazine highlighting innovative student work and the faculty that inspire that. We’re just wrapping up construction of the site for its initial launch in September, but...
by Will | Jun 3, 2016 | Cool Tools
Interested in using VoiceThread in your course? Not even sure what in the world VoiceThread is, or why it needs to be CamelCased? Check out these great workshops happening this summer! You’ll love them, and then your students will love them and all will be well...
by Will | Apr 19, 2016 | 06 - Instructional Materials
When you think about adapting your course for online delivery, one of the first things you probably think about doing (or dread, depending), is retooling your powerpoint presentations as narrated lectures. I say this because it’s the number one thing people talk...
by Will | Jan 26, 2016 | Events, Workshops
Once upon a time, there was a place called the Exchange. It was in what most people thought was the basement of Library South. I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking that – even I blame the basement-ness for the Vitamin D deficiency that I suffered last...