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YouTube tricks
YouTube Tricks Go to Full-screen version of a YouTube Video As you know, if you want to show a YouTube video full-screen, you click on the full-screen icon found in the lower right-hand corner of a YouTube video. But … Continue reading
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Print-friendly Web Pages
Print-Friendly Web Pages If you ever need to provide a handout to students of a web page, but you don’t want the page to have extraneous things in it such as images and “side boxes” of text, go to Print … Continue reading
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Using Low-Stakes Writing Assignments to Achieve Learning Goals
Introduction The article “Using Low-Stakes Writing Assignments to Achieve Learning Goals” describes how a professor uses low-stakes writing assignments to assess his students’ understanding his learning goals for a class. In this post, I’ve provided the main points of the … Continue reading
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Small Changes in Teaching
James Lang is the author of the book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Teaching. He also authored the articles below in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Small Changes in Teaching: The Minutes before Class Small Changes in … Continue reading
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Plagiarism checker
If students need to check to see if their papers are going to check a plagiarism check, they can check it https://unplag.com/.
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Embedding Cropped YouTube Videos into Moodle
If you would like to embed just a portion of a YouTube video into Converge, watch the video below. The author of this video summarizes the steps: “When we select the embed code we untick all of the option boxes … Continue reading
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Are Students Ready for College?
The article “Ready for College?” in the January, 2016 issue of The Teaching Professor discusses a survey given to 700 students, mostly sophomores, in which they were asked how well they felt they were prepared for college. Eighty percent of … Continue reading
White Noise
Do you like white noise in the background to help you concentrate. Noisli and Simply Rain are two websites to try.
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Learning
Want to read the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Learning but you don’t have time? Read a book review of How Learning Works, which contains a nice description of each of the chapters. Edited with BlogPad Pro
How to play portions of a YouTube video
Need to show just a portion of a YouTube video into a website, Powerpoint, or provide a link to the video. Use this site.