Do you have students who don’t check their college email accounts in a timely manner? Would you like an easy way to reach every student in your course? Then Remind might be the tool for you! Remind allows you to instantly reach your students, anytime/anywhere. Your students subscribe to your faculty Remind account and choose …
With Chrome’s market dominance, many of us use the Chrome browser on a daily basis. To improve your productivity and efficiency within your classroom environment, Cathy and I suggest exploring a few of the many Chrome extensions. We recommend starting with the following innovative extensions: Momentum – Momentum is a free extension that can help …
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“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~Maya Angelou~ Since the shift toward remote learning, Markus and I have been asked numerous times about ideas and tools to bring more collaboration, critical thinking (creativity), and engagement to courses. This month we are sharing Canva, a technology tool that allows …
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When teaching with technology, Markus and I always promote having a Game Plan B and sometimes even a Game Plan C. This same mindset can apply to having a contingency plan for taking lecture courses online. This plan might be the result of weather or as we are seeing right now the Coronavirus (COVID-19). If …
Over the years, several of the TeachingAndLearningToolbox blogs have highlighted some great Google tools for use in the classroom or to improve productivity. Google Keep is another wonderful tool you can add to your Google Suite toolbox. Google Keep is a free, simple and effective productivity and collaboration tool for both students and instructors. If …
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In January, we focused on using Slack to create and monitor classroom “teams” https://teachingandlearningtoolbox.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/slack/, but Microsoft Teams is another technology option. If your institution subscribes to Office 365, you already have access to Microsoft Teams at no additional cost. Furthermore, Microsoft Teams recently celebrated their first anniversary and they reported some very impressive statistics: 200,000 …
Let’s get ready for the new academic year! This is a great time to reflect and utilize technology that can help organize yourself and your classroom for the upcoming year. Where should you start? Cathy and I think that this is the perfect time to share how we stay organized and to recap some of …
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Welcome to a new academic year! This is a great time to reflect and utilize technology that can help organize yourself and your classroom for the upcoming year. Where should you start? Cathy and I think that this is the perfect time to share how we stay organized and to recap some of our …
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Have you ever attended a conference and noted several great take-aways; however, once you get back to your normal routine, you find yourself not implementing anything? Markus and I had this same experience at one time. In order to solve the problem, we started focusing on just one or two of the best take-aways we …
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