During Black History month, we honor the legacy of the Black feminist scholar, writer, and teacher bell hooks who passed away at her home in Kentucky on December 15, 2021. We share her belief that it is impossible to separate joy and learning. In this recent Chronicle of Higher Education…
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The Overview Page is an opportunity to make an impactful first impression on your incoming students. Furthermore, it could be a continued resource as the semester progresses. Here are 5 inspirational ways to set up your Overview Page. ONE: How to Get Started and Where to Find Various Course Components…
Leave a CommentIn this blog post, we promote Release Conditions as a strategy to ensure students actually read the syllabus or other important course content. When you set a release condition in Brightspace, the course material is locked until a student completes the defined requirements. Examples: You could hide a content item…
Leave a CommentUse student feedback to inform instruction and promote learning! This article has ideas for different types of student feedback that you can evaluate for your own courses. If you find one you like, you can copy the instructions and questions and use them in your courses. After that, explore different…
Leave a CommentHave you ever felt like Ben Stein in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Standing awkwardly in front of your silent class and staring at blank faces (or blank Zoom screens)? How can it be that no one besides you has any idea why the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was so terrible?…
2 CommentsIt’s hard teaching over Zoom— let’s start by acknowledging that inevitable truth. But it’s definitely possible to design and facilitate engaging virtual classes. I’ve experienced it personally, finding myself transformed in Zoom workshops despite the tangle of wires that both separate and connect us. Those experiences have helped me realize that Zoom teaching, despite its challenges, offers new ways of engaging meaningfully with material and connecting with each…
1 CommentThe Problem When we added Brightspace to our digital learning environment this fall, we added an integration to Panopto. One of the complexities of getting systems to work well together is that sometimes they don’t play well together due to unique system requirements. We found one of these requirements in…
Leave a CommentMeet the Brightspace Faculty Champions! Brightspace is generating a lot of interest with almost 60 faculty volunteering to pilot courses in Brightspace this fall. Due to the nature of our phased implementation, LIT could support approximately 20 (we wish everyone could support everyone!). Pilot faculty were selected from volunteers with…
Leave a CommentLIT and WIT Online look forward to cross-disciplinary conversations and sharing in the workshops to start the fall 2020 term: Tues 9/8 at 11am Best Practices: Managing Your Online Course Tues 9/8 at 12pm Best Practices for Using Zoom for Remote Teaching Tues 9/8 at 4pm Boost Study Time through Anytime Anywhere…
Leave a CommentJoin us virtually for a half day teaching and learning event on September 4th from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Wentworth faculty and staff will present best practices, share examples, tools and strategies that can be implemented for the upcoming Fall semester. Please note that event information and details will…
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