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I used Makeover Monday data for this project, specifically the “Price Parity” data from week 17 of this year. The data comes from the US Bureau of Statistics and shows overall rent, goods, and services prices across the 50 US states and DC from 2008-2019. It does not have good granularity; all the data is …
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Almost 10 years ago, I taught a course on Patricia Highsmith, and since then, there has been a bit of interest in this mini-documentary I created for my students and the end-of-term film festival we hosted around Highsmith adaptations. It's about 16 minutes in length, posted originally on Vimeo and now YouTube. The Associació Internacional …
For this geospatial analysis project, I wanted to learn more about women printers in the early eighteenth century—I was really interested in using a historical map, and this seemed like an interesting avenue. Where did women in the print trades work? How many were there? Were they located centrally, or marginally, geographically speaking? I did …
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I work in higher education, and a few days ago I saw the Chronicle of Higher Education interactive story “How Many Black Women Have Tenure on Your Campus?” Since I’ve done some data analysis with the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data Set, I thought I would reprise this idea focusing specifically on Assistant Professors on the …
If you teach writing or assign essays, you will likely be using Canvas' annotation features in SpeedGrader. I know I do! However, the vast majority of students have no idea how to find these marginal notes. Most of my colleagues didn't know students couldn't see it! When students go to view their feedback through Grades, …
One thing that you may note as a potential challenge is the lack of due dates for any link. Links cannot accommodate due dates or to-do dates. This is something I've adapted to in my own teaching practice today. Instead of using direct links to videos I want students to watch or websites to visit, …
Students like modules, if not just as the homepage (Fox 2021). Think of the module as a chunk of your class. This post will show you how to set up a clear module list, so that students can access the content easily without you having to link to a lot of individual pages and assignments. …
What do you want your students to see upon logging into your course? You need to think about this, and carefully. Do you want them to know what the readings and assignments are per the syllabus? Consider using a modules list for your home page. Do you want students to have clear access to, say, …
The Importance of Clarity in Your Canvas Course Students value clarity above many other things, especially when taking an online course. Your Canvas site is their portal to your course, and to the work they must complete to satisfy the objectives. It is important to think of your Canvas course from the student's perspective, and …
During our first class in MICA's Data Analytics and Visualization class, we learned a lot about different forms of visualization--this is my project for our photographic visualization week. The idea behind it is to inform a wide urban audience about the phenomenon of language death, which is unfortunately only increasing with each year that passes. …
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Tonya Howe 