As educators this week began shifting their coursework online, thousands of them are likely using the Zoom teleconferencing app for class-wide lessons or discussions.
Advice from Dr. Tony Bates to those about to teach online because of the corona-virus
With the reports of more and more institutions closing campuses because of the corona-virus, and even those not closing advising their instructors to move their classes online, I am wondering what advice or help these instructors are getting from their …
Online Learning in a Hurry
Dave Cormier has created a series of videos (up to ten now) helping people get started with online learning in a hurry. It’s practical and realistic. For example: “My first oliah blog post had to do with prioritizing the establishment …
How Coronavirus Is Going To Change Education Forever
Education is one of the most important challenges, it will surely change after this episode (with all that this entails in terms of opportunity for those who know how to deal with it properly), and it will be essential for …
How I lead remote learning in Hong Kong during school closures
Since we use Microsoft tools, I quickly realized it would make sense for Teams and OneNote to play a leading role in online lessons for my students. We were learning as we went, much like many other educators like you …
Presentation of the Week: Looking after the Open University’s Moodle
How we must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
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How to Create Annotated Screen Capture Images
Nimbus Screenshot is a screen capture tool that includes tools for drawing straight lines, arrows, boxes, etc. It’s available to use as an extension in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. There is also a Nimbus Screenshot Chrome app for Chromebook users …
Zoom is Now Integrated inside Dawson’s Moodle
Now if you want to create a videoconference in Zoom for your students you can do this inside Moodle itself. Login to Moodle, select your course, click “Turn Edit On” and then “Add an Activity or Resource”. Zoom will be …
9 Tips For People Taking Online Classes
Whether you are a college or high school student, or an employee who would normally attend in-person workshops, it’s likely that you’ll be thrust into the world of remote learning immediately and with little preparation. I reached out to Karl …
How to Develop an Inclusive Online Course?
This great multimedia tutorial was created by our own Dawson’s Chantale Giguère and Laurent Duval.
E-Learning Response to Covid19
Are you creating an online course, event or conference? If you’re not a programmer, and if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, this guide will get you started.
Why Coronavirus Looks Like a ‘Black Swan’ Moment for Higher Ed
Colleges by the dozen are canceling in-person classes and scrambling to create remote-teaching alternatives. Is it crazy to think that a new virus could be more of a catalyst for online education and other ed-tech tools than decades of punditry …
Special Resources During the School’s Closure
IST compiled some useful resources for teachers during the college closure:
- Adobe is offering temporary at home access to Creative Cloud to all students and employees.
- Zoom has increased their support and online training.
- Microsoft has increased their support and
Teaching Students to Manage Projects with ProjectLibre
ProjectLibre is an open source software that is useful for creating project schedules. Michel Bélanger, a teacher at the Collège Montmorency, and many of his colleagues use ProjectLibre for several of their courses in the Civil Engineering Technology program.