{"id":84,"date":"2016-11-06T14:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-11-06T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:37:13","slug":"blog-index-november-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/index\/blog-index-november-6-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Index \/ November 6, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 \u2014 I&#8217;m really hoping we will see a lively <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/groups\/university-of-oklahoma\/activity\"><em><strong>OU Canvas Community<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in the Canvas Community space, and that has not happened&#8230; yet \u2014 but it has been a good space for &#8220;thinking out loud&#8221; 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&#8217;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&#8217;ve published in these past two weeks, sorted into general categories:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canvas and Openness<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/lms\/open-content-resources-not-courses\/\">Open Content<\/a>: Resources, not Courses: a warning about the dangers of putting content into LMS course spaces.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/lms\/canvas-for-open-syllabuses\/\">Canvas for Open Syllabuses<\/a>: I think promotion of open syllabuses should be a top priority at my school.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/open\/go-open-with-canvas\/\">Go Open with Canvas<\/a>:\u00a0Canvas, until D2L, has some open options, which is my main interest in our switch from D2L to Canvas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My Canvas Announcements Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/announcements\/maati-baani-in-my-canvas-homepage\/\">Maati Baani in my Canvas Homepage<\/a>:\u00a0Sharing videos with students via my Canvas announcements blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/time-management\/new-countdown-widget-on-homepage\/\">New Countdown Widget on Homepage<\/a>:\u00a0I created a new &#8220;__ days left in the semester&#8221; widget for my Canvas announcements blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/announcements\/10\/\">The Power of Random Cats<\/a>:\u00a0Promoting growth mindset with random cats in my Canvas announcements blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Posts about\u00a0Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/students\/student-voices-about-canvas\/\">Student Voices about Canvas<\/a>: results of my Fall 2016 midsemester student survey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/meta-learning\/time-management-brainstorms\/\">Time Management Brainstorms<\/a>:\u00a0Follow-up to an ILED studio session on helping students with time management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Posts about Teachers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/lms\/how-instructors-dont-use-the-lms\/\">How Instructors (Don\u2019t) Use the LMS<\/a>:\u00a0My thoughts on the new Blackboard study demonstrating limited (VERY) limited use of LMS features by instructors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/connecting\/connectedness\/\">Connectedness<\/a>:\u00a0A grateful response to Jesse Stommel&#8217;s blog post about Creative Online Educators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one of the cats from this week&#8217;s posts: this blog has been a good step forward for me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/growthmindsetmemes.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/english-standing-still-is-not-growth.html\"><em><strong>Standing still is not growth. Take a step forward<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/step.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/step.jpg\" alt=\"step\" width=\"434\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/step.jpg 434w, https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/step-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Crossposted at <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/groups\/university-of-oklahoma\/activity\"><strong>OU Canvas Community.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 \u2014 I&#8217;m really hoping we will see a lively OU Canvas Community in the Canvas Community space, and that has not happened&#8230; yet \u2014 but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/index\/blog-index-november-6-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Index \/ November 6, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}