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I thought I’d miss everything I love most about my work, but what happened was not what I’d expected.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-what-teaching-cegep-online-has-taught-me/wcm/0aa6b731-ecd8-45c4-93c2-35f9b68e8cc0/…

I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It’s really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim’s class “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical …

Microsoft has developed a deepfakes detection tool to help news publishers and political campaigns, as well as technology to help content creators “mark” their images and videos in a way that will show if the content has been manipulated post-creation.…

Narakeet is a service called Video Puppet that turns PowerPoint presentations into narrated videos.  The new features include greater control over the voice-over. You can now have multiple voice-over voices in your video and you can now control pauses in …

In an online course, many students may experience a sense of anonymity. How do you encourage them to participate, to interact?

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/articles/creating-a-sense-of-presence-in-synchronous-online-courses…

AppSheet is a platform that allows you to easily create various types of mobile apps without the need for any coding knowledge. As a teacher, you can use this service to design apps to help you enhance your teaching and …

What will distinguish an online MIT education from OpenCourseWare or an MIT MOOC micro-master’s degree in a way that will justify a substantial price premium.

https://eliterate.us/online-learning-student-experience-is-the-new-climbing-wall/…

TeacherMade is a new tool that lets you tick both of those boxes. With TeacherMade you can quickly and easily convert some of your favorite “old standby” activities into online activities to share with your students.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/teachermade-quickly-create-share.html

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CTLs report a shift in faculty attitude; faculty pay more attention to their recommendations now than in the past. While they used to ignore the CTLs’ emails and invitations, now they appreciate them.

https://www.tonybates.ca/2020/08/31/the-role-of-centres-for-teaching-and-learning-during-covid-19-and-beyond/

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Preparing for the fall 2020 semester and looking for resources to support online learning, teachers have been reaching out on various online teacher communities. One topic that kept popping up was icebreakers and especially what icebreakers worked well in an …

Here are my observations on this year’s list(s) together with some infographics that visualise the state of play as well as some thoughts on what this means for the “new normal” for personal learning, workplace learning and education.

https://www.toptools4learning.com/analysis-2020/…

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-09-01-howard-gardner-on-his-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-and-lessons-for-covid-19-era…

Lens users now are able to scan documents or images that includes text and with a single click have the text copied to their computer. You only need to make sure that you are signed in to your Google account …

Profweb Editorial team alumnus and retired teacher Norm Spatz was called back to the classroom during the Winter 2020 semester. Like many other teachers, his class was thrown a curveball by the worldwide health emergency. When the semester resumed, Norm …