What does a week of work look like in an online class? Read some book? Watch some lecture? Respond to a couple classmates in a discussion? Take some quiz? Yeah, that sounds close right? Quality Matters might tell us to
Teaching & Learning Centers
Last week I did a presentation for some faculty at San Juan Community College in Farmington, New Mexico about our 9x9x25 Challenge. It was part of their Technology Innovations conference that was followed the next day by a Canvas conference.
The Walmartification of Reading
My 17 year old daughter made this remark about her AP Senior Literature textbook the other day. “I hate this book.” That came from a kid who is and has always been an avid reader and who has a room
The View at #instcon was Awesome!
Last week I traveled to Utah for a first hand look at the Instructure Canvas conference. I had seen the tweets last year. I had heard the stories. Could it really be that different from any of the other big
A Brown Paper Bag for Branding
Here at the college we are moving from Blackboard to Canvas at a rather quick pace. Thank goodness the Canvas Guides are pretty awesome and organized. The Canvas Vimeo site has some great tutorials and they too are organized mostly
This Is About the LMS
After nine years of helping faculty learn how to use Blackboard, our college is moving to Canvas. Right now. I could say lots of funny things about this move. Like the several faculty who noted that they felt as if
Developing Presence as an Online Instructor
I suppose there is “presence” as in time and space and there is also the type of presence you have in the online environment. The former is more like, “Are you easily available to your students,” and are you present
Some Kind of Stressed Goddess
My first contribution to #noir106 on a lazy and rainy Friday in in SuperBowl saturated Arizona. I hardly ever got good at showing my work. Pretty lame. But I will here for a moment. I make gifs the old fashioned
Two Years of 9x9x25 = 323 Posts
Well, just by the number of participants this time around I vote we were successful and I have high hopes for next year. We changed things up a bit and I think that the commenting week went ok. I liked
What Todd Learned in His Classroom Management Class
Truth is, Todd never took a class called “Classroom Management.” He took a class called “Group Processes” that was all about how groups work and how we can make groups work better. For some reason, the state of Arizona allowed
All Bells & Whistles and No Place to Go
A while back I was invited to talk with the Maricopa Community College faculty at their “Canvas Conversations” daylong conference. It would be similar to Yavapai having a Blackboard Conversations day where faculty would share the good things they do
What Does “A Culture of Learning” Look Like?
I want you to describe for me the elements that are active in a college where there is a clear “culture of learning” among faculty. Ok, go ahead. (time passes and you think about the question above and even have