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Exposure to numerous ideas and the ability to evaluate contrasting points of view is a hallmark of an educated person. In today’s world, ideas zoom around at the lightning pace of electrons, yet many educational models still attempt to produce critical thinkers at the speed of watched pots slow to boil. The reality is that Continue Reading »

Office 2013 is the newest version of Microsoft’s suite of productivity software including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. Since the podium computers in each classroom will be upgraded to Office 2013 this summer, this blog post explores some of the changes and features from Office 2010 to Office 2013. Don’t worry, most of the features Continue Reading »

Are you using video in your courses, but aren’t sure if students are actively engaged with the content? Then you may want to check out “From Passive Viewing to Active Learning: Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos.” In this short post, Emily Moore provides an easy-to-use guide for preventing passive Continue Reading »

This post was co-authored by Jessica Morris, Lynnette Clement, Nick Gogno, Peggy McCoey, and Regina Hierholzer. On Tuesday, May 21, over 60 members of the La Salle University community participated in the second annual Faculty Development Summer Institute.  The Institute is a daylong event that highlights tools and techniques for engaging students with technology. This Continue Reading »

Do you find that you need to annotate documents for your students, draw diagrams, or walk through problem solutions? There are quite a few apps that allow you to turn your iPad into a dynamic whiteboard, so you can record short demonstration videos for your students or walk through problems or documents live in class. Continue Reading »

We’ve recently been posting a lot about rubrics, including why you might want to use them in Blackboard and how to build your own rubrics. If you wanted to get started with rubrics right away, you may want to explore some of the ready-to-use rubrics from Blackboard. These rubrics have been collated from their Exemplary Continue Reading »

Randy Fingerhut, Associate Professor of Psychology, teaches in La Salle University’s doctoral program in Clinical Psychology and supervises students who are being trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.   Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT for short, is a specific type of psychotherapy that addresses negative patterns of thoughts and behaviors that contribute to depression and anxiety. Over Continue Reading »

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’ performance, and communicate key dates. You will be able to access each of these features by May 17, 2013. Click on the tabs Continue Reading »

This post is co-authored by Jessica and Sherri. In a previous post, Jessica introduced the benefits of rubrics as grading tools and provided tutorials on building electronic rubrics in Blackboard. However, it is difficult to build a good rubric that meets your needs while also saving you time.  A complicated rubric can make your grading Continue Reading »

This week, Turnitin is hosting a week of plagiarism education and awareness events. You can find the full list of events here: Plagiarism Education Week. Two webinars that sound particularly interesting include: Responses to Plagiarism Wednesday, April 24 at 1pm Description from Turnitin.com: In this webcast, author Lynn Lampert will provide useful tools to combat Continue Reading »