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Communicating With Students Before Publishing Your Canvas Course

4/19/2021

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Want to help your students be prepared for the first day of class but don't want to publish your Canvas course? Use the Course distribution list for your course section in Gmail! All courses get them once they are active in SIS. When you send an email this way any student that is registered for your course at the time will receive your message*! Remember to Blind Carbon Copy your students so that if they reply all the other students will not receive the email. This is the same as checking the box to send an individual message to students in Canvas. 
*This function remains available for 90 days after the semester ends, but you need to add ".completed" to the address. Example: 
Current Student Gmail Group: 
CGC.2021.Spring.BPC.110.21561@cgc.edu

Completed Student Gmail Group (students have been graded in SIS): 
CGC.2021.Spring.BPC.110.21561.completed@cgc.edu


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Ways to encourage student engagement with course videos

4/7/2021

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Before I talk about some of the ways in which you can encourage student engagement with videos in your Canvas course, let’s talk just a bit about some video recording options as well.

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A SPECIAL TECH TUESDAY MESSAGEĀ FROM THE CTLA

3/30/2021

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LOL Follow-up [recorded 3/23/21]

3/26/2021

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The CTLA receives quite a few questions about digital annotation for online instruction, be it for synchronous sessions or for making videos. This week. Engineering Faculty Fanny Silvestri shared her expertise regarding a variety of tools that can be used for virtual whiteboards!
NOTE: We also took a quick look at a small document camera (about $80 on Amazon) that can be used for Live sessions and/or for recording videos.

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Be Ready When SYSTEMS COME BACK ONLINE

3/23/2021

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Heading Title Image: Be ready when systems come back online: Tips & Canvas Guides to assist with getting your course current

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LOL Session Follow-up [Recorded 3/9/21]

3/18/2021

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On March 9th, we shared ideas for supporting teaching & learning by using Digital Interactive Notebooks. We also provided links to FREE templates - downloadable as Google Slides or as Powerpoint - so that you don't have to build your own from scratch.


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Live Online...Live! Session follow-up [Recorded 1/13/2021]

1/19/2021

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Last week, we offered the "Survival Tips for Navigating Live Online" on Monday 1/11 for Faculty Convocation, and again on Wednesday 1/13 as part of CGCC's Week of Accountability offerings. Between the two sessions we had nearly 150 attendees!

If you missed both of the LOL sessions, you can still get the info by watching the video below.


RESOURCES:
  • Get your own copy of the slides from the "Survival Tips" session: https://bit.ly/LOL-convocationslides
  • Use the LOL Suggestion Box (https://bit.ly/LOLsuggestionbox) to share:
    • Topics you would like to see in future LOL sessions
    • Ideas you would be willing to share (we'd love to have anyone who is interested as a guest, or to have small groups with a common interest as a panel!)
    • Questions or comments you may have about LOL specifically, or about synchronous online teaching in general!
  • Remember, this Spring LOL will be on 2nd and 4th Tuesday afternoons from 2:30-3:30 PM! The session room will open 15 minutes prior to start time. No registration necessary - just use this link to join: https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive
We hope to see all of you at next week's LOL session!
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We won't be having aN LOL session today, but...

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We'll be back LIVE on Tuesday, January 26th | 2:30-3:30PM (session room opens 15 minutes prior to start time) for an "Organizing Your Lesson" session. This one will be great for ANY type of instruction... Keep an eye on your email for more details!
No registration necessary.
Use this link to join the Webex session:
https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive

The link to the webinar recording will be made available to you weekly - watch your email!
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LOL Weekly Session Follow-up: The Power of Padlet [Recorded 11/17/2020]

11/19/2020

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This week, The CTLA's own Kali Andrews, Instructional Designer, joined us to share one of her favorite tools -  Padlet! Kali shared the basics of setting up Padlet, strategies/activities, two ways to include your live Padlet discussion wall within Canvas, and her thoughts on free (Padlet Basic) vs. paid (Padlet pro).

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LOL Weekly Session Follow-up: Webex Teams vs Zoom (recorded 11/10/2020)

11/12/2020

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The Best $30 You'll Ever Spend...

11/10/2020

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You all know that I am the biggest advocate ever for free tools, but this week I want to share one of the most-used tools in my arsenal, which did in fact cost me about $30 - TechSmith's SnagIt.

A lot of software companies these days work on a subscription basis, but the $29.99 education price pays for a license, not a periodic subscription fee (you will need to provide proof that you are an educator in order to take advantage of the education pricing).
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I use SnagIt pretty much on a daily basis, for many tasks:
  • To create graphs for handouts
  • Capturing images, especially for guides and how-to documents
  • Editing, resizing, setting transparent backgrounds, image reflections, text overlays, etc.
  • Combining images for headers, slides, etc.
  • Screencasting (I use it regularly to provide students with video feedback)

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