by Mendi Benigni | Sep 29, 2020 | communication, content, Distance Ed, OAKS, OAKS Tips
Your OAKS Course Home doesn’t have to look the way it does now. You can change it to add a widget that can help your students stay on track. Adding the Content Navigator to the OAKS Course Home The Content Navigator is a tool that indicates, to the student, how...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 11, 2020 | Collaboration, discussion
In our OAKS (D2L/Brightspace) classes there are often two types of communication: detailed and thoughtful discussions and class questions and answers. While the Discussion tool is great for the first type of communication, it’s less effective for the Q&A...
by Mendi Benigni | Mar 14, 2019 | Assessment, Collaboration, Mobile
Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal. This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team. These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on...
by Jessica Smith | Sep 5, 2017 | Best Practices, Small Teaching Tip, Teaching Advice
In higher education, teaching is often perceived simply as the transmission of knowledge and that can contribute to our focus on content delivery at the expense of other elements of effective teaching. Educational philosopher John Dewey argued that effective teachers...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 17, 2012 | Conferencing, Distance Ed, Google, Google Apps, Video
Google+ offers two new ways to interact with your friend, colleagues, or anyone in your circles: Google+ Hangout which is a video chat application and Google+ Hangout with Extras which allows for the video and text-based chat as well as document and screen sharing...