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For those of you using Gmail, the extensions below are definitely worth trying out. They will help you enhance your productivity and transform your emailing experience. The apps allow you to add notes and sticky post-it notes to your emails …

Applying principles of mass customization in L&D design and leveraging digital learning transfer technology can greatly accelerate the impact rate of mission-critical training.

https://www.chieflearningofficer.com/2020/09/14/personalizing-performance-not-learning-lessons-from-mass-customization/…

Zoom has a bunch of features you can use to better manage the online teaching experience, and we just rolled out four brand-new ones! Here’s how our features will help you teach — and students learn — over Zoom.

https://blog.zoom.us/4-new-zoom-features-educators-can-use-to-enhance-virtual-teaching-learning/…

Since June I have been pretty deep in H5P support for a BCcampus project (yes. the kitchen). But I had a deep run with H5P on a project earlier in the year, likely pushing the limits of what the Branching …

In my journey learning 9 languages over the years, I tried all sorts of different methods to make my learning more effective. Here are some of the notable approaches, along with why they work (or don’t work). It will be …

While 40 percent of IT higher education IT leaders and instructional technologists said in June 2020 that their college or university was planning for “mostly in-person” classes for the fall, that share plummeted to less than 5 percent by August.…

In the context of distance learning, handing in assignments in electronic format has quickly become essential. Although all office software suites (Microsoft 365, iWork, G Suite, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, among others) allow documents to be highlighted and annotated efficiently, the …

A screen reader is a tool or plug-in that uses assistive technology to make it possible for users with low or no vision to access and read web content. This is usually done through different techniques including text to speech …

We’ve been using Zoom at scale since March, and have learned how to use it well for everything from 1:1 meetings up to classes of 500+ students.  Here are some ideas to improve the Zoom experience.

https://darcynorman.net/2020/09/16/zoom-features-wishlist/…

The University of Kentucky has expanded the use of technology in classrooms to accommodate whatever format is appropriate for the course content and faculty and student preference. As the home page for the institution stated, “Work Anywhere. Learn Anywhere. Teach …

Finding a flawless ed-tech tool is not the best way to start putting your course in an online format.  Instead, decide what you want to prioritize this fall semester and then find the tools with the functionality necessary to make …

If taking turns with a desktop or laptop isn’t a viable option, the following are a few suggestions and workarounds that won’t break the bank.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/09/20/virtual-school-how-save-money-computer-remote-learning/5831198002/…

Microsoft Stream—the intelligent video app in Microsoft 365—is being reimagined and rebuilt to integrate seamlessly with applications across the suite, so you can create, share, discover, and manage video as easily as any Office document.  

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/new-stream…

When photo owners include a photograph’s Web Statement of Rights (also known as Copyright Info URL)  in an image’s embedded metadata, Google will display a “Licensable” badge on the image in Google Images search results and the image will appear …