I’m biased, I’m not patient, and I live in an industry with an innovation and adoption cycle that has never been sustained for so long in human history. The Innovation Adoption Lifecycle has been the mantra for technology my entire life. The only problem with this is that as soon as the Early Majority is …
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PowerPoint Slide Reading Order
The reading order of slide content is important for anyone using a screen reader. It allows them to hear the content in the order it was meant to be read. Sometimes you may need to add content to a slide that may affect the slide reading order. Content is read in the order it is …
Acrobat Accessibility Webinars
Creating PDF documents in a way that make them accessible is important to ensure all students are able to consume course content no matter their ability. Adobe has scheduled multiple webinars focusing on how to remediate PDF accessibility issues. Register for each of the events listed below on the Adobe Acrobat DC Upcoming Events site. …
Reincarnation: Breathe Life into A Dead Online Course Using Video
Engaging students in online courses happens by design, not by chance. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model asserts that social presence is not only important (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000), but that “there are things the instructor can do to help design for and elicit social presence through teaching presence” (Lowenthal & Mulder, 2017). Using …
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Design Tips to Engage Today’s Learners
Tools in teaching have come a long way, from the Abacus to smart phone calculators. Although they teach the same concept, the tool used has changed dramatically during the Information Age of the past few decades. As tools or devices have changed so have the way a student processes information and learns. In the past, …
Teach Technology, Teach Democracy
There is more to the digital divide than simple ideas of those with technology and those without (DiMaggio, P. & Hargittai, E., 2001; Warschauer, 2003), or conceptions of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001). If those of us in education do not teach how technology is used to communicate information, we inadvertently become assistants …
Who Are You Calling a Narcissist?
As I was designing my course last summer, I could not help but to wish that all of my students learned like me because it would make my life easier when prepping my course. I reflected on all of my scholarly success, how hard I worked to get where I am, and how these students …
