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by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Northwest has experienced some beautiful weather lately and the effects of spring fever are soon to appear in the classroom. It can be difficult to focus on work when sunshine and warmer temperatures are beckoning us outside! Perhaps…
Millennials Learners Where They Are. If you are ready to try a new engaging activity, we encourage you to schedule a consultation with Instructional Technologies for assistance and support. Originally posted 2/28/2015 in PLU’s Instructional Technologies blog *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Assess Your Course Design for Quality Practices Read Next Helping Students “Stay Connected” This Summer LATEST POSTS Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners March 31, 2020
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by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Have you ever attempted to drive to a new restaurant at night with only a vague idea of where it was located? Trying to reach a destination without some necessary information can invoke feelings of anxiety and frustration. Students may…
Are we there yet? Guiding students with course goals and objectives Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Have you ever attempted to drive to a new restaurant at night with only a vague idea of where it was located? Trying to reach a destination without some necessary information can invoke feelings of anxiety and frustration. Students may feel the same way about reaching the objectives of your courses if they are at all unsure of where
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By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer During summer 2018, three templates options — Standard, Minimal, and Legacy templates — were added to the Sakai Request Course form. Sakai templates contain general tools and pages that must be updated by the instructor before publishing the site to…
User Services/Instructional Technologies Individual Consultations Get support via phone, email, or one-on-one meetings Instructional support, course preparation: Dana Bodewes, bodewedl@plu.edu, 253-535-7572 Technical support: Sean Horner, hornersa@plu.edu, 253-536-5021 *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous New Sakai Templates – Released June 15 Read Next Teaching with Sakai at PLU LATEST POSTS Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners March 31, 2020 Rethinking
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by Misty Berlin Check out the schedule of Fall 2021 technology workshops along with full workshop descriptions and registration information. Workshops are offered on a diversity of topics, such as: Screencasting Google Sites Google Docs & Drive Instructional Videos with the Lightboard Adobe Acrobat…
receive an email confirmation and the workshop will be added to your Google Calendar. Customized Workshops If you have a particular need for specialized and customized technology workshops for your class or department, contact Misty Berlin (berlinm@plu.edu, 253-535-7260) and we’ll do our best to meet your specific needs. Instructional Technologies provides a Design Lab with computers and software for digital editing projects. The Digital Design Lab is located on the first floor of the Library near the
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by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Blogs have greatly contributed to the explosion of content created and shared on the internet. I, myself, couldn’t count the number of hours I’ve spent reading blogs about everything from recipes to research. There are many academic applications for blogs. Blogs allow…
assignments, I encourage you to read “Develop and Implement a Course Blog” or “Getting Started with Student Blogs: Tips for the Digital Immigrant”. If you would like to know more about managing and grading student blogs, check out some of the many fantastic posts by the ProfHacker team for the Chronicle of Higher Ed, such as “‘How are you going to grade this?’ Evaluating Classroom Blogs”. And of course, the Instructional Technologies team at PLU provides consultations and workshops for faculty interested
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By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Resources website has a new webpage dedicated to Teaching and Learning with Sakai . Here faculty can learn more about how Sakai is being used across campus. View Real PLU Sakai Sites Ever wondered…
Teaching with Sakai at PLU Posted by: bodewedl / August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Resources website has a new webpage dedicated to Teaching and Learning with Sakai. Here faculty can learn more about how Sakai is being used across campus. View Real PLU Sakai Sites Ever wondered how your colleagues are using Sakai in their courses? The Teaching and Learning with Sakai site allows PLU faculty and staff to enroll in Sakai
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The past few months have been a challenging time for education. PLU faculty had to quickly adapt their classrooms into an online environment and rethink how to deliver their pedagogy in entirely new ways. One of the biggest obstacles to online teaching and learning is…
text, files, GIFs, emojis, and code. Instructors can organize the Chatroom into various rooms based on topics. Rooms can be made available to the entire class or instructors can set up private rooms for group discussions. Instructors also have the option to enable direct messaging for student-to-instructor as well as student-to-student private communication. Campuswire Chatrooms For faculty looking for an alternative to Sakai Forums, the PLU Instructional Technologies team recommends Campuswire
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TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 10, 2015)—Being a Lute sure does come with perks: unlimited access to lectures, free previews to PLU productions and on-campus leadership opportunities, just to name a few. Here are a few student-specific perks you may not have heard about: Music Lessons Have…
two credits, and an instructor will get in touch. Students taking lessons must attend six concerts throughout the semester and must play for a panel of faculty members at the end of the semester.Camera Equipment For Lutes aspiring to be the next Spielberg, Instructional Technologies has the equipment you need: Just visit the Instructional Technologies counter on the first floor of the library to check out equipment such as cameras and tripods.Clubs and Involvement PLU has 70 different clubs, which
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by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer You may have noticed PLU promoting a new summer session campaign called “Stay Connected”. The campaign hopes to improve retention, decrease time to matriculation, and increase enrollments in summer session courses. A February 2015 survey of PLU students found: …
, check out the websites for PLU Teaching Online (PLUTO) and Summer Session. Originally published 4/1/2015 in PLU’s Instructional Technologies blog *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Maintaining Student Engagement Read Next Exploring “GradeMark” for Sakai Turnitin Assignments LATEST POSTS Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners March 31, 2020 Rethinking Assessment at a Distance March 18, 2020 Engaging Students During Remote Learning March 16, 2020 How to Create a
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By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Over the past two weeks, I have been preparing for a faculty workshop on using assessment tools in Sakai. While drafting a section on discussion forums, I scoured the internet looking for an exemplary discussion board rubric to share…
here to my generic online online discussion rubric for you to use or improve. I would love to hear your feedback on this topic in the comment section below. Do you agree or disagree with this philosophy of grading online discussions? How would you improve this discussion forum rubric for future releases? Originally posted 9/25/2013 in the PLU Instructional Technologies Blog *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Are we there yet? Guiding students with course goals and objectives Read Next
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