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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, …
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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, …
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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 if you've never taken an online course, yourself, …
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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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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. …
This year at our Teaching Toolbox, I'll be leading a breakout session on using Wikipedia in the classroom, and hosting a lunch discussion on writing across the curriculum. Breakout Session: Wikipedia in the Classroom The goal with the Wikipedia in the Classroom session is both to debunk some myths about Wikipedia and introduce some more …
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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This evening in EN340 is the first class of full-on literary analysis, and we are reading several of Anne Bradstreet's poems. I love starting with Bradstreet in this class because we're discussing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing as a political and self-conscious act that is in some ways always about its status as "women's writing." So …
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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 …
Tonya Howe 