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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
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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
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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
A Curated List of Ed Tech Articles
A Curated List of Ed Tech Articles Whether you are on your NID and preparing for the spring semester or you are currently tackling your debut semester teaching remotely online, this list has something useful for you. In this short … Continue reading
Langara’s Learning Tools and Technologies
We know you are becoming Brightspace experts, but have you tried out any of Langara’s other learning tools and technologies? Try this quiz to see how much you know about our tools and support. Langara’s Ed Tech department provides expertise, … Continue reading
Meet the people supporting you as Educational Technology’s Instructional Assistants!
Daniel Andrade Fonseca My specialties are web development and project management; I offer technical support to instructors in Brightspace and other Langara tools, like Zoom and Kaltura. My interest in technology started early. I’ve loved video games since I was a kid … Continue reading
