The Engaging Learners with Powerful Technology Tools Series
The Engaging Learners Series, co-sponsored by the Art and Science Technology Committee and the Faculty Development Committee, ran over a three month period during the Spring 2012 semester. The purpose...
View ArticleSupporting Collaboration in Your Face-to-Face Class
Many tools essential to fostering student collaboration in the online and hybrid environments are also useful for supporting collaboration in the face-to-face environment. Most of the tools mentioned...
View ArticleChecklist for Building Interaction in Your Online & Hybrid Courses
There are many different types of interpersonal interactions that can occur in an online or hybrid course. For example, As the instructor, you may periodically send announcements or email messages to...
View ArticleEnergizing Online Discussions
Face to face discussion gives students opportunities to engage with course content and each other in deep and meaningful ways. Sometimes, though, it is a challenge to create energetic discussions in an...
View ArticleTime-Saving Tips for Reviewing Discussion Posts
Blackboard’s Discussion Board tool is flexible and lends itself to many applications for your classes. If you are looking for some ideas for how to build discussion and interactivity in your course,...
View ArticleTED-Ed: Lessons Worth Spreading
If you are one of the lucky ones, you have personally attended one of the conferences hosted by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), an organization that’s dedicated to spreading ideas. More...
View ArticleSMART Tips for Online Discussions
Sparking a good discussion in the face-to-face classroom can be an engaging and intellectually rewarding experience for both students and faculty. When it comes to teaching online, many faculty members...
View Article7 Effective Practices for Online Educators
If you are currently teaching an online or hybrid class or if you want to transition your course online, consider these seven tips that can help increase learning effectiveness in the online...
View ArticleFun New Blackboard Features for Spring 2013
Starting in the Spring semester, there will be a few new features in Blackboard that the Instructional Design team is excited about, and we think that you and your students are going to like them too!...
View ArticleLa Salle Nursing Professor Leverages Blackboard for Advanced Pathophysiology...
To the casual classroom observer, Associate Professor Joan Parker Frizzell PhD CRNP ANP-BC speaks more than one seemingly foreign language while she is teaching in front of her Advanced Pathophysiology...
View ArticleNew Blackboard Features for Summer 2013
Blackboard has released a few new features in time for the Summer semester. These updates will make it easier for you to grade students’ work, use the discussion boards, monitor your students’...
View ArticleImproving Digital Communication Between Faculty and Students: Takeaways from...
Last week’s Explorer Café, entitled Did You Read My Email? Managing Expectations in a Digital Environment, focused on how faculty and students prefer to communicate outside of class time. Inspired by a...
View ArticleA Snow Day Solution: Student-Led Learning
It’s hardly news to anyone in the Philadelphia area that it has been an especially snowy and icy winter. Even though we are now well into March, it is still possible that another snow day could be in...
View ArticleEngaging Students in Online Class Meetings
This week, the Instructional Design team offered three different training sessions on our new web conferencing tool, GoToTraining. One concern that I often hear when we talk about online class meetings...
View ArticleUsing GoToTraining to Provide Career Support to Alumni
The Alumni Relations office runs an ongoing series of webinars conducted by La Salle alumni on career-related topics. We previously used Wimba for webinars. Our most recent webinar on June 3, Take...
View ArticleCanvas Makes It Easy to Manage Meetings with Students!
The Instructional Design team recently received the following message from faculty member Jacqueline Pastis in the Religion department. Jacqueline was one of the first faculty members that we have...
View ArticleLa Salle Faculty Share Creative Approaches to Assessment
I had the privilege of attending Wednesday’s Faculty Coffee Circle on creative ways to assess student learning, which was organized by Tara Carr-Lemke, Director of The Explorer Connection, and...
View ArticleTechnology As a Lens for Reflective Practice
Have you ever found yourself on auto-pilot when grading stacks of student papers or hastily replying to discussion board posts on Canvas? No matter what the task is, stepping back and looking at what...
View ArticleGoToTraining Issues and Recommendations
Due to some current issues with a recent update to GoToTraining, I would like to share a few recommendations that will minimize any problems for you and your students as you wrap up your Spring classes...
View ArticleDo You Really Understand What a Bond Is?: An Activity for Starting the Semester
The following blog post is written by Joshua Buch, Professor of Finance. We would love to hear from more faculty and instructors on the Educational Technology blog! Email the Instructional Design team...
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