Category: Tech For Teaching

April 16, 2020

Universal Design for Learning for Remote Teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recommendations to maximize the ability for students with disabilities to fully and meaningfully participate in all aspects of the virtual learning environment and may also benefit other student populations.

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March 28, 2020

Managing Communication in Remote Synchronous Classes

Reading Time: 4 minutes Teaching tips that respond to common scenarios that can arise in the remote synchronous classroom, including chat talk, interruptions, oversharing, silence, and unwelcome participants.

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March 27, 2020

Creating a Positive Learning Environment in Zoom

Reading Time: 3 minutes Both you and the students may be new to Zoom and everyone wants it to be a positive learning environment. That means you will have...

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February 19, 2020

Quizizz

Reading Time: < 1 minute For self-paced learning resources or friendly peer-to-peer quizzes, try out Quizizz. Educators and students can make true or false and multiple choice quizzes and flashcards,...

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February 19, 2020

PowerPoint Jeopardy!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bring in a new take on a classic trivia game by using a Jeopardy PowerPoint deck to gamify a review or test prep period. Download...

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February 14, 2020

Necesito OER

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post was written by Dr. Rita Palacios, faculty at Conestoga College about experiences in writing and creating Open Education Resources (OER) for courses. In...

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February 3, 2020

Concept and Mind Mapping

Reading Time: 5 minutes Concept and mind mapping are graphical ways to represent knowledge, concepts and ideas. The maps are hierarchical in nature that expands on a core concept...

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January 3, 2020

Padlet

Reading Time: 3 minutes Long beloved by educators, Padlet has been on the ed tech scene for years. This easy to use creative tool lets users brainstorm, organize, categorize,...

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January 2, 2020

OneNote Notebooks

Reading Time: 4 minutes OneNote notebooks are a new way to organize information and resources from Microsoft. Rather than collecting information in folders and files, compile them all together...

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November 29, 2019

Marking Made Eas(ier)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Below is a post that I did as part of eCampus Ontario’s 9x9x25 challenge in the Fall of 2018.   Since then, Conestoga has started a...

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