by Laurie Hurson and Krystyna Michael As an instructor, your decisions about technology shape both the material and conceptual aspects of your course. Digital tools can guide how communities develop within your classroom, as well as between your classroom and the world beyond it. When choosing a platform or...
At the 2019 CUNY IT Conference EdTech team members Carlos Guevara, Wilfredo Rodriguez, Catherine Man, Danny Wu and Eric Ritholz (pictured left) received the CUNY Excellence in Technology: Innovation Award. The award for Innovation recognizes a project that is particularly original and/or results in a new way to conduct...
For the PDF version, click on this link: EdTech Innovations Spring 2020 Articles Open Pedagogy at CUNY Backward Course Design Safeguarding Online Assessments Add/Remove students from your Blackboard course News and Events Online Learning Initiative Bronx EdTech Showcase 2020 Roadmap to Teaching Innovation Innovation Celebration OLC Innovate Panopto Lecture...
EdTech is bringing 30-minute live sessions to Facebook! Join us for these short sessions covering topics in course design and Blackboard tips. Whether you are exploring more ways to engage students, or preparing for your next online course, you can Facebook chat with us during these sessions and...
by Catherine Man Here’s an idea to switch up the planning for your online course: Backwards Design. This is an approach to instructional design explained in detail by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe in their book, Understanding by Design (UbD). It’s a concept that seems counterintuitive at first because...
by David Dos Santos (This article specifically addresses the situation of enrolling a student in a Blackboard course section who has registered late and does not appear in the course roster when the semester begins. Enrolling course observers in the Blackboard course will be covered in another article.) Generally...
By Danny Wu “Hey, we’re meeting at the library at three o’clock to take the exam together, there’s four of us”, replied a student on the phone. Minutes later the student and classmates enter a study room at their college’s library to begin taking an online exam together to...
Link to “How to Be a Better Online Teacher Advice Guide” by Flower Darby. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2019. “What you will find here is advice on how to make your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the in-person version, including: -10 essential principles and practices of...
by Eric Ritholz Several years ago I started promoting the use of the Cornell Method to students as well as professionals because of its many redeeming qualities. It looks simple, and yet it brings lateral thinking, visual, and kinesthetic factors into the process. If you are not familiar go...
Instructors who are teaching courses on Blackboard in the Fall 2019 semester will notice some important changes to the structure of the course template, reflected in the revised navigation menu. At first this change may appear cosmetic, but actually the changes are in response to the structure of Blackboard...