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Podcast Playlist – Podcast recommendations from your Ed Tech team
Looking for inspiration? Podcasts are a convenient and approachable way to pick up some new tools for your teaching toolkit. In this new feature, we’ll share a few of our favorite episodes with a teaching and learning focus. Maybe It … Continue reading
Podcast Playlist
Podcast recommendations from your Ed Tech and TCDC team Looking for inspiration? Podcasts are a convenient and approachable way to pick up some new tools for your teaching toolkit. In this new feature, we’ll share a few of our favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Professional Development
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, podcasts
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A Curated List of Ed Tech Articles
A recently released study out of Stanford warns that synchronous Zoom lectures and meetings are making us tired. In this short article, Vignesh Ramachandran notes Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes. Asynchronous videos offer … Continue reading
Posted in Remote Teaching
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, asynchronous video, Video
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Improving Colour Accessibility for Students with Colour Deficiency
Improving Colour Accessibility for Students with Colour Deficiency Image CC by Johannes Ahlmann Did you know that approximately 1 in 12 men is colour blind? Colour blindness — or more accurately, poor or deficient colour vision — can affect a … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, accessibility, brightspace, colour
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Ed Tech Sandbox Sessions
Ed Tech Sandbox Sessions Are you facilitating an online course this semester or next and still feel a bit overwhelmed about using technology? Join the Ed Tech Sandbox Sessions to try out your tools and synchronous teaching in a safe … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, Educational Technology, sandbox
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Do you have a favorite mobile app for teaching and learning? Tell us about it.
The Educational Technology department wants to hear about the mobile apps that have made online teaching and learning better for you and your students. Tell us about your app and be entered to win a gift card.
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Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, apps, contest, mobile apps, Mobile Learning
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Increasing accessibility of course content: How to create closed-captioned videos
Increasing accessibility of course content: How to create closed-captioned videos What are closed captions? Closed captions are a transcription of dialogue that is added to a video or digital presentation and, when turned on, appears as text on the bottom … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, accessibility, brightspace, learning tools, Video
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End-of-Semester Sharing Session
On Friday, November 27th from 10:30 until 12:00, Ed Tech is hosting an End-of-Semester Sharing Session and we would love for you to participate. How can you participate? Share your tool or activity If you have adopted a tool or educational technology-based activity this semester … Continue reading
Posted in Tools and Apps
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter, learning tools, share
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New Ed Tech Online Course Assistance Program
New Ed Tech Online Course Assistance Program Have you heard about Ed Tech’s Online Course Assistants (OCA) pilot program? We have hired and trained three Co-op students who can provide online course support for your department or individual instructors. Our … Continue reading
