East Asian history courses at Muhlenberg
Portal for courses on Chinese, Korean and Japanese history
Last Thursday, 24 March ’22, was the 2022 #PressEd conference, “A WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter.” With some encouragement of Alan (aka Cogdog), I submitted a proposal and the next thing I knew, Natalie and Pat Continue Reading …
Table of contents: Introduction Students’s blog set-up Instructor’s set-up Exporting the “blog stream” In Canvas How to use in teaching Want to do even more with Inoreader? Introduction I like using blogs for student work, and generally students get to Continue Reading …
Why use social annotation? Set-up Using groups First assignment: annotate the syllabus Later in the semester Why use social annotation? I’m naturally curious about other people’s reading habits, and I love to know what students think about the course materials. Continue Reading …
Why offer choices? When teaching and learning online When teaching and learning in a physical classroom Why offer choices? Today’s blog post isn’t about a specific digital tool I use, but a mindset I leverage. I’m a big fan of Continue Reading …
Table of contents Twitter and teaching How to make Twitter work inside your blog Setting up the plugin Adding the Twitter content you want to your site Twitter and teaching Twitter is a great place for discovering new content, if Continue Reading …
Table of contents Possible issues One possible solution: a plugin The final piece Re-using code/scripts on the same site You’ve played around with the rotate content tool, you’ve figured out it makes sense to allow an element of randomness in assigning Continue Reading …
Table of Contents Level 1: Inside Canvas Level 2: In the sidebar of your own blog/website Level 3: Creating my own randomly rotating content Good to know Thank you About this blog series Level 1: Inside Canvas Ok, hopefully I Continue Reading …
An explanation how randomly rotating content can help to take away “decision fatigue”, allowing you to focus more on teaching and feedback, instead of spending time pairing up students for review Continue Reading …
Today was the first day of cancelled classes so we can prepare for going into remote learning. In the morning I caught up on some of Zoom’s features using our ITDL training from earlier this month, and then I set Continue Reading …
