March 19, 2024

Digital Stories in Modern Academics: The Post-Pandemic Value of Storytelling

Digital storytelling has been part of the lexicon of course assignments for several decades at this point. So, as I’ve been pondering the work of the Digital Learning and Media Center, the ever-present question has been, what’s the relevance of digital stories in modern, post-pandemic coursework? Further, should this be our bread-and-butter project type? Before answering these, it’s worth grappling...
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October 31, 2023

Give them their own copy of the document

Have you ever created a file in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, or Slides) and wanted to share it with someone, but wanted them to not modify the original and just make a copy of it for themselves? You could tell them to go to the menu and choose File, make a copy, … and hope for the best! Unfortunately, we can’t control whether they make a copy or not.

Here are two ways you can “force a copy”…
Categories Articles of Interest/Digital Life/How-To/Learning/Uncategorized
August 14, 2023

“White Snow, Yellow Snow” and Crumpled Paper. New Ideas for Class Discussion

I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday, and I heard a wonderful story about ways to invite introverted students to share their thinking in class. As an introvert myself, I appreciated these discussion strategies to make space for students who don’t feel comfortable speaking up in class. This piece focused on a 9th-grade classroom, but I think the...
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August 7, 2023

Use Hypothes.is to Collaboratively Annotate YouTube Videos

The social annotation tool Hypothes.is has recently enabled the ability to annotate YouTube videos. YouTube videos. Note that this feature only works for YouTube videos that have a transcript. The annotations will appear on the transcript that appears alongside the video. Follow these instructions to enable Hypothes.is in YouTube videos within your Moodle course. Some instructional uses of this new...
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