Think back to the time when you were learning to ride a bike. Did you learn from reading a book? Did watching someone ride a bike provide you with enough knowledge allow you to hop on and ride seamlessly into the sunset? Probably not. Chances are you sat on the seat, put your feet on… Read more »
Instructional Technology
Resources to Help Minimize Plagiarism in Your Course
This blog series discusses ways to prevent plagiarism and what to do when faced with a possible case of plagiarism. We complete this series by reviewing resources available to help prevent plagiarism in your course. One simple prevention tool is Turnitin.com, a text matching service that can be used in the Canvas Assignments tool. When… Read more »
Scheduling Appointments in Canvas (and without email!)
Did you know that the Canvas you use for your classes every day also allows you to schedule appointments with your students? Perhaps you hold scheduled help sessions, or have groups of students meet with you regarding a collaborative project. Whatever the case, Canvas actually allows you to add appointment times to the Canvas calendar, associate… Read more »
So… What’s Next?
“We have full access to VoiceThread, it’s free, and we can put it in Canvas?” “As faculty, we have IU Google accounts?” “When and how did we decide to move to this new technology?” All of these are real questions I have heard from IU faculty or staff, and possibly comments you have made yourself. It… Read more »
Customizing Canvas to Match Your Style
Canvas offers us help in the classroom with communicating with our students, helping our students communicate with each other, sharing resources, building learning opportunities, checking in on our students learning, and more. But do you ever get the feeling that it all feels a little plain? Or that the site just doesn’t reflect you as… Read more »
A Tale of Two Tools: Creating Instructional Videos Just Got Easy
IU offers you quite a few options for creating various types of instructional media, but which ones are the simplest to use? Setting up each piece of software, testing what it can do for you, trying to get over that learning curve, and uploading it to an accessible location on the “interwebs” can take precious time… Read more »