Greetings, folks! In my culminating post for CET, I’m excited to present to you a short feature documentary we just finished this week featuring the brilliant muralist, Jeff Zimmermann. As a self-taught painter with only a Painting 101 course to his credit, Jeff’s murals are an indelible part of the …
One of the worst pieces of advice I was given as a new teacher, oh so many years ago, was to not let students see you smile until the second month. Unfortunately, my personality doesn’t quite work with that hard-and-fast rule at all. It takes a certain kind of person …
I guess this is hump week, meaning I am halfway to developing my course. I spent the past week creating quizzes, assignment sheets, rubrics, and handouts. These are not any different than they would be for a face-to-face course. The only difference is I am developing them now instead of …
Howdy! My name is Faiz Razi, and I’m the SITE Technological Coordinator and Forum Moderator. I’ve been teaching Math, English and Science for the past 18 years. I am an accomplished composer and artist, an organizer with over 600 events on the books, a black belt and an unabashed cultural …
Typography is one of the simplest ways to bring attention to certain information in your work and should be considered when either presenting text on the web or on paper. My earliest introduction was in the second grade during “Handwriting Class”, and I have since learned that one could easily …
Remember when you were a kid and stories were broken down with lots of beautiful pictures and words? That was just a given for children’s books. However, applying these same ideas for adult instruction is just as effective. Image Source here I am excited to be here on Tuesdays to …
Last year, I led a training about Widgets and Homepages in D2L. One of our rock star faculty, Jennifer Mata, attended and then did some fantastic things with the homepage of her course: Would you like your course homepage to look as stellar as Dr. Mata’s? If so, the two …
by Kate Sonka I recently returned from a month spent in Lithuania working with Lithuanian K-12 English as a foreign language teachers. Let me begin by saying that I never really was sure what the students would be like before I left, so it was my best guess that …
I have carried a notebook or sketchbook for as long as I can remember. The only thing that has really changed between my early years and now is how I have used the notebook. As a young person, they included my ideas about art, drawings, goals, philosophies, things I experienced …
If you’re ever talking to Calley or me about using Digication for Integrative Knowledge e-Portfolios (IKEs), you’ll probably hear us mention Jeffrey Yan, the designer and creator of Digication. When he came to DePaul a few months ago for a training, he shared an idea that I would have definitely …