Today I’m going to go over the basics of Zoom for those Marymount University faculty who are interested in or curious about using it for online teaching. I’m going to try not to talk too much, but I do want to walk you through the features, settings, and options before we try a group meeting. …
Timelines in the Classroom: Teaching Toolbox 2018
Do you have students work with timelines in class? Do you teach surveys, or long texts that have substantial narrative components unfolding over time? Have you used Northwestern University's Knight Lab's Timeline JS? I am developing an assignment that uses Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources. TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone …
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Demo Timeline: Evelina
Have you used Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources? I am testing what this might look like in an epistolary context, using Frances Burney's Evelina. By sharing the google sheet on which the timeline is based, students could be assigned letters or chapters to add--some things I've discovered so far are that you …
Teaching with technology materials
Materials for my two sessions are available in a google drive folder here. If you want easier access to the google doc on using google drive (very meta, I know!), I've made it public to anyone in the world to view; here's a link to it, and it's also embedded below. Now that I've put …
The Word You Don’t Know: Using Find/Replace
Improve Your Writing with Find/Replace from T. Howe on Vimeo.
Tonya Howe 