Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Importing questions within random sections into the Library -D2L-
I’ve recently got this request. As there is no way to do that in D2L, at least for now, I am sharing with you my solution. Let me know if you have a better idea or something similar happened to you.
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Turn any TV or projector into a giant interactive whiteboard
Here is a cool device that instantly turns any TV or projector into a giant interactive whiteboard. Learn about the project here !
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The Course Trailer Experience
This past summer, I made a course trailer for a class called KNES213: Introduction to Research in Kinesiology for Dr. Larry Katz. I want to share my experience taking on this project because I learned a lot from it and hopefully my experience can inform yours should you choose to create a course trailer of your…
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Live Streaming the “Fruit Fly Life Cycle” to the Classroom
Hi!, my name is Laura and I’m a Learning Technologies Coach for Science. Let me tell you about a cool project I’ve been working on during this Fall semester. The project was meant for first year biology students and consisted on implementing a real time observation activity of the Fruit Flies’ life cycle. Fruit flies….those…
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Twelve Apps of Christmas
For those who are interested in new and different e-learning apps, you might want to check out 12 Apps of Christmas. This is an initiative put on by BC Campus to have post-secondary educators try out different apps and discuss them. They have a contest going to keep the comments going, on-topic and engaging. So…
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Audio production tricks for smartphones from the CBC
Image source: Pixabay Wondering how the pros make their podcasts sound so good? Here’s some tricks to start with.
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Who am I?
Hello there! My name is Judy Tran and I am the Learning Technologies Coach for the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning . I’d like to tell you a bit about myself and my work here at the University of Calgary. Who am I? I am a third-year undergraduate student in the Faculty of Kinesiology. I…
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Our ‘D2L Basics’ Workshop at the Faculty of Arts
This post is about how my fellow LT coach at the Faculty of Arts – Hany Ibrahim and I organized and presented a workshop on D2L Basics. I will take you through the different stages of preparation and then the workshop itself. What to cover? First, after answering numerous professors’ questions on how to build…
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Podcasting 101
Podcasting Suggestions Generally, when building a stereo rig the prevailing ideology is to build from the source out. So, in an analogue world you’d get the best turntable and stylus first and then worry about better speakers. The rationale being If the needle can’t read the record well the quality of the speakers are irrelevant…
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Trailers? Trailers!
One of the things a lot of the technology coaches have been working on through the summer is helping faculties and their members produce trailers for their courses and programs. A trailer? Why would you do that? The simple truth is that students, either current or prospective, often don’t have time to read through the…
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