Online Course Peer Review

I’m teaching two late-start courses this semester and decided to test out the ToonDoo/iMeem introduction idea on them.  I made the creative introduction idea optional, as I didn’t want to have to provide step-by-step instructions to those students who were freaked out by the idea of trying something new.  The results:  76% of my students [...]

It’s no secret that Barry loves fun web tools.  If you haven’t already checked out this blog of his recently, you should:  http://desire2blog.blogspot.com/  He shows examples of how to make online class introductions more fun.  I decided to give it a shot using ToonDoo.  It’s easy to use.  Click on the cartoon in order to see [...]

While at the RSP/ITeach conference this weekend, I attended a session by Jeannette Brewer of Desire2Learn.  She provided some fun tidbits of information that most of there had not been aware of.  Here’s one of them:
By inserting {firstname} into any HTML spot in your courses (news, content, release conditions, etc), D2L automatically places your students’ first [...]