July 10, 2017
A New And Flawed Ally Boosts Blackboard’s Accessibility
Blackboard is clearly deciding to emphasize its focus on accessibility. One of its newest products, called the Blackboard Ally, promises to look into…
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July 3, 2017
Course Design,Lesson Design,Accessibility
Why Universally Designed Courses Should Be Fun Like Playgrounds
I recently read an article for my Universal Design for Learning graduate course on a fun, universally-designed playground and it has completely…
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March 12, 2017
Privacy and Tools When Choosing an LMS
For my graduate course on Instructional Design, I participated in an online chat with high education technology integration specialists. About 15 of…
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February 27, 2017
I Raced Justin Bieber With Javacode
You are at a Justin Bieber concert, and you hear this lyric 'Lace my shoes off, start racing.' Suddenly, Bieber stops and says, 'Who wants to race…
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February 25, 2017
How To Use RID To Quickly Develop Blended Courses
Rapid Instructional Design (RID) is a method of design courses that offers a lot of flexibility when designing content/activities for a course. The…
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January 5, 2017
A Review of My 2016 Goals
The life of a teacher has many starts and stops but the end of the year is a great point to revisit my goals. Here is my account of achieved and…
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October 17, 2016
Course Design,Lesson Design,Google FormsWeekly Challenges
Challenge #3 Design A Online Formative Assessment
The next challenge is ready! I am sorry for the delay, I was working on a side-project, helping elementary schools design a standards based report…
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September 13, 2016
Course Design,Weekly Challenges
Pick Your Next Learning Objective — Challenge #2
This week's challenge is meant to help you focus your next lesson. Last week's challenge was for you to choose your learning management system (LMS)…
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