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How we must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
‘Panic-gogy’: Teaching Online Classes During The Coronavirus Pandemic
‘Panic-gogy’: Teaching Online Classes During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Even though the focus can sometimes be on technology, tools, and logistics, Morris, from the University of Colorado, Denver, says that what is really required from professors at this time is compassion. …
Resources For Teaching Online Due To School Closures
A lot of people have been offering guides and more to help people teaching online. This is one of the best ones.
https://www.theedublogger.com/teaching-online-school-closures/…
Concordia Preparing to Move Classes Online
Our priority is to finish the semester according to the existing schedule. In order to ensure academic continuity, while maintaining a quality student experience, Concordia will cancel all classes scheduled from March 14 to March 22, inclusively. On Monday March …