Blog Index / November 6, 2016

I’ve been blogging in this new space for two weeks now, and I am really happy for how that is going. It has not accomplished its main goal yet — I’m really hoping we will see a lively OU Canvas Community in the Canvas Community space, and that has not happened… yet — but it has been a good space for “thinking out loud” about teaching, and it was especially useful as a space to have available during #OpenEd16 last week. My goal is to blog every day during the week, and then on the weekend I’ll do up an index post, trying to sort things out and keep track of how the posts are accumulating. So, this is my first index post, and below are the blog posts I’ve published in these past two weeks, sorted into general categories:

Canvas and Openness

  • Open Content: Resources, not Courses: a warning about the dangers of putting content into LMS course spaces.
  • Canvas for Open Syllabuses: I think promotion of open syllabuses should be a top priority at my school.
  • Go Open with Canvas: Canvas, until D2L, has some open options, which is my main interest in our switch from D2L to Canvas.

My Canvas Announcements Blog

Posts about Students

Posts about Teachers

  • How Instructors (Don’t) Use the LMS: My thoughts on the new Blackboard study demonstrating limited (VERY) limited use of LMS features by instructors.
  • Connectedness: A grateful response to Jesse Stommel’s blog post about Creative Online Educators.

And here’s one of the cats from this week’s posts: this blog has been a good step forward for me! 🙂

Standing still is not growth. Take a step forward.

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Crossposted at OU Canvas Community.

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