Are you using the smart parts of your phone, or just the phone part? Beyond the typical texting, talking, and picture sharing features, today's phones offer many smart tools to help us with teaching and learning. The ten ideas shared below are only the beginning of uses we can make sure our students know about. …
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What does persistence and resilience look like at Ferris?
Local area schools are at a record 20+ snow days and many parts of Michigan were declared a "State of Emergency" in the last month. Nothing like a good "Snownado" or "Thundersnow" followed by a full-on blizzard to start your week off! Rather than share ideas on improving how we teach or strategies to incorporate …
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Acrobat Accessibility Tool
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC comes equipped with an Accessibility tool to assist with remediating accessibility issues. To access the tool and add it to your tool pane: Open Tools Scroll to Protect & Standardize Find Accessibility and select Add Add the Accessibility tool to your toolbar The tool is now easily accessed in the right …
Teach like a dog: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
5:51am Manton Consolidated Schools will be closed due to the impending storm...My first thought (like many humans), an hour extra sleep! I'll work from home rather than risk the 55 mile drive to work.6:45am Gypsy, my dog, expressed different thoughts. "Mom, mom, time to get up for our walk! We are going, right? …
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Microsoft Check Accessibility Tool
Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have a tool available to help identify and remediate accessibility issues. The tool is available at File > Info > Check for Issues > Check Accessibility. The Accessibility Checker will appear in the right-hand sidebar. When you highlight the error two things happen: Additional information about the error, warning, or …
Writing for Online Courses – How is it Different?
You are the expert in your chosen area, and love to teach others. How do you share the knowledge with others to enable synthesis and use, or sharing with others? How do you do this in the online environment? Whether you’re transitioning a face-to-face course to an online course or creating a completely new online …
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Innovation Version 42.8
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 …
