This is now my third week of blogging in this space. No progress in the OU Canvas Community, but this has been a good space just to save and clarify my ongoing thoughts about Canvas, and it has also proved useful for sharing with people at other schools. So, this is the new index post, and you will find links below to all the blog posts so far, and I’ve bolded the posts that were new this past week:
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, unlike D2L, has some open options, which is my main interest in our switch from D2L to Canvas.
Practical Canvas Advice
- Think Before You Link: Creating a Canvas URL. To create continuity from semester to semester, create a URL for each course you teach.
My Canvas Announcements Blog
- Maati Baani in my Canvas Homepage. Sharing videos with students via my Canvas announcements blog.
- New Countdown Widget on Homepage. I created a new “__ days left in the semester” widget for my Canvas announcements blog.
- The Power of Random Cats. Promoting growth mindset with random cats in my Canvas announcements blog.
Posts about Students
- Student Tech Support for Canvas. Specific Canvas features that I emphasize, with further student feedback.
- Student Voices about Canvas. The results of my Fall 2016 mid-semester student survey.
- Time Management Brainstorms. Follow-up to an ILED studio session on helping students with time management.
Posts about Teachers
- Moving from Marketing to Conversation. In addition to student voices about Canvas, we need faculty voices too.
- 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.
Philosophy of Teaching
- Engagement, Creativity, and Non-Conformity. Promoting creative, constructive nonconformity in both teaching and learning.
- Writing yesterday. Writing today. Thoughts after the presidential election.
And here’s one of the cats from this week’s posts. Blogging is a great tool for colearning. 🙂
Observe others: the task is possible!
Crossposted at OU Canvas Community.
