The Learning & Applied Innovation Digital Garden – Page 3 – Planting Seeds to Grow Teaching and Learning at Colgate University

September 29, 2022

Think of UDL as a Learning Buffet

CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization, created the Universal Design for Learning framework in the 1980s. CAST’s mission is to transform education design and practice until learning has no limits. CAST.org I’ve been reading and learning about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for many years and have often found it difficult to explain UDL to others. I recently...

Learning/Resources

September 27, 2022

Schedule your email for a better time

An email is an immediate form of communication, but you do not have to send the emails you compose as soon as you write them. Scheduling your emails allows you to compose messages on your own time and at your own pace. We like this when we’re getting things done after work hours and want to save our reply for...

How-To/Learning

September 27, 2022

What is “Confidential Mode” in Gmail?

Working in “Confidential Mode” allows you to send emails with sensitive information with a higher level of protection. Emails sent in confidential mode can’t be forwarded, and you can choose whether to require a recipient to use a passcode to read it. To send an email in confidential mode, click the icon that looks like a lock at the text...

How-To/Learning

September 26, 2022

Choose your preferred document format using SensusAccess

SensusAccess is a self-service, web-based tool that automatically converts documents into a range of alternative formats including MP3 audio, searchable PDF, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, RTF and digital Braille. Anyone with a Colgate.edu email address can use SensusAccess to convert documents into these alternative, accessible formats. SensusAccess was implemented at Colgate in the summer of 2021. Since then, use has increased...

Resources

September 21, 2022

Resurrecting the Podcast as an Engaging Assignment Option

Lately in the DLMC we’ve been diving back into sound recording conversations. Working with faculty, fellow staff, and the Media Mentor student staff, capturing sound has been the focus of multiple folks, and not just for film! Podcasts have resurfaced as a teaching tool that provides a valuable set of skills for students and offers a different form of assessment...

Learning/Resources

September 19, 2022

[Re]thinking the “Digital Native”…again…

Today’s college students seemingly navigate the complexities of the web as if it were like the air they breathe. Toting powerful mobile phones, they consume (and create) digital content in every major media format, (text, image, sound, video), communicate on multiple platforms, search for and access any conceivable resource…and entertain themselves. In an always on, always connected environment, they seem...

Learning

September 14, 2022

Helping students who struggle with executive function

Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Just as an air traffic control system at a busy airport safely manages the arrivals and departures of many aircraft on multiple runways, the brain needs this skill set to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve...

Resources

September 2, 2022

The Power of Padlet

Padlet is a tool for creating virtual bulletin boards. It’s a simple tool that can enable collaboration toward many different kinds of instructional goals. Here are some of the ways in which I’ve used Padlet in the past year: Asynchronous Introductions I convened a group of twenty people who first met via Zoom. I set up a Padlet and asked...

Resources