There’s a lot of information out there about using Zoom, and it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. You may have heard, for instance, that a meeting host can hear you when you’re muted. We are here to …
Five ideas for teaching at a distance in a different way
At Université Paris-Saclay, we have tried several new tools and methods, testing them with our students and sharing them among ourselves. Here are five tips that have improved (in part at least) our daily lives as lockdown lecturers.
…Microsoft Word to soon bring predictive text for users on Windows
A new update for Microsoft Word arriving next month is bringing a feature that has been long due. Predictive typing or the ‘Text Prediction’ feature will automatically suggest new words as you are typing a sentence. While it may be …
Reflections on Teaching through the Screen
Critical pedagogy aims to deeply question our epistemological assumptions—about teaching, about education, about power, about expertise—and while this can be exhilarating, it is almost never a picnic.
https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/reflections-on-teaching-through-the-screen/
…Microsoft Officially Announces Office 2021
Microsoft has tried its hardest to convince people that working on the cloud is the future, but some users like the idea of owning a product instead of leasing it out for a monthly fee. If the words “subscription model” …
Add Voice Notes to Your Email With Mote
Mote lets you add voice comments to Google Classroom, Slides, and Docs. As of yesterday it lets you add voice comments to Gmail messages. Mote recordings in Gmail can be played by anyone who receives your email. Recipients don’t need …
Another Good Tool to Enhance Teachers Remote Collaborative Team Work
Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro’s intuitive canvas offers a wide variety of features to help you …
Take your classroom debates online with the new Moodle Debate plugin
A newly released Moodle plugin, “Debate”, allows learners to take sides in a discussion and actively express their opinions.
https://moodle.com/news/online-classroom-debate-moodle-plugin/
…How reinforcement learning chooses the ads you see
Reinforcement learning is the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and video games. Reinforcement learning models seek to maximize rewards. In the case of online ads, the RL model will try to find the ad …
Digital Tools to Leverage the Power of Peer Assessment
Teachers spend countless hours correcting student work because feedback is critical to students’ learning process. Regrettably, an important portion of such feedback is not understood or deemed irrelevant by students, or worse yet, left unread. How can we get students …
COVID-19 has transformed education – here are the 5 innovations we should keep
COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine. Here are five changes made to higher education that it would be valuable to continue with after COVID-19.
Is It Still Teaching When the Professor Is Dead?
Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia University in Montreal., was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-02-09-is-it-still-teaching-when-the-professor-is-dead
…Three Easy Ways for Students to Make Short Audio Recordings – No Email Required
See how to use the following free tools to create short audio recordings: Vocaroo, Online Voice Recorder, and Twisted Wave.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/02/three-easy-ways-for-students-to-make.html
…The future of online learning: the long-term trends accelerated by Covid-19
With the technology now available, it’s clear that simply broadcasting pre-recorded lectures is no longer an option for forward-thinking universities.
…Let’s talk about feedback!
Feedback is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. Nevertheless, feedback offered throughout the duration of the course (formative feedback), is a crucial element in the learning process. Together with the feedback given at the end of the course (summative feedback), …