A Little Panic at WACUG

Ya gotta love technology - at least most of the time. I was presenting at WACUG - the first Washington Canvas User's Group conference, held this past week at Tacoma College. BTW, FABULOUS conference! Anyway... I created the FIVE files I needed for my presentation, had them on my laptop AND on my USB drive; …

The Beyonce Effect on Canvas

Canvas noticed some unusual traffic patterns on Sunday during the Superbowl...

Am I the Last One? The one-minute paper

I'm taking an online class in learning outcome creation, and assessment is a big portion of the class. One thing mentioned is "Classroom assessment techniques such as the one-minute paper, made famous by Angelo and Cross...". Now I'll admit, somewhere in the back of my mind this sounds very familiar, but it's obvious that I've …

Canvas t-shirts

Yes... Canvas looks to be a great LMS for our students... but they have fun with product too! Their t-shirts are becoming quite the collectible item, and I have it on good authority that one of our own Washington SBCTC employees has a complete collection!  Here's some recent examples:

Discussions Forums + Wordle = WOW!

While at a recent conference I overhead an idea:  take the text from a discussion forum and turn it into a word cloud. I asked Connie S. for permission to use one of her discussions from a recent Angel classroom.  The question posed by Connie was:  Is responding to individual differences considered the cornerstone of effective …

Canvas tease – rearranging assignments in gradebook

I can't help but let you all know about things like this. How do you rearrange assignments in the Canvas gradebook? First, here's how to do it in our current LMS, Angel: Manage tab, Gradebook, Categories, select category, show tasks, reorder assignments, click on assignment, use buttons to move up/down, Save. In Canvas: Grades, click-hold-and-drag assignment/column …

Art History – Kahn Academy

I'm quite intrigued with all the math videos in the Kahn Academy. I'm also in the midst of reading a history book titled A History of the World in 100 Objects (book, website). I cannot tell you how excited I was to find Kahn Academy videos for Art History - including some of the same …

Ten Free Throws in a Row?

I really like instructional videos like this: quick, to the point, interesting, and personalized. Ya gotta love the Kahn Academy. What are the odds of basketball player LeBron James hitting ten free throws in a row?

Got Bookmarks? Use iCrumz!

Do you save a lot of bookmarks on your Internet browser on your computer and find that they've disappeared when you use another computer?  Or you save your bookmarks in Internet Explorer and can't find them when you use Mozilla Firefox?  There's a simple solution to your problem.  It's called online bookmarking. Online bookmarking is …

Tablets in Education? Yes please!

[written by our Guest Blogger, Erin Baker!!] Ok. So even after my kindred spirit colleague, Kathy Brooks, suggested I start blogging about my adventures in teaching, I still wasn't sure what I would write about. Seriously? Why would anyone care about what I had to say? Now I've gotten over worrying and analyzing so much …