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I’ve Been FRAMED by a Canvas Developer…

I feel unwittingly framed by Canvas developers! Here’s my insight into avoiding Pitfall #2: Letting a course management system drive thinking. The problem: Developers of platforms like Canvas create an environment for specific users. They build features based on potential use cases … Continue reading

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Becoming “The Guide on the Side”: Centering Students in Hybrid Courses

As long as I’ve been a Spanish teacher (sixteen years now!) we as a profession have been talking about and moving toward student-centered, content-based, and task- or project-based teaching; language instructors have long since stopped seeing themselves as the proverbial … Continue reading

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Figuring it out as I go… hybridizing WR 324

WR 324 is an intermediate fiction writing class. The prerequisite is 224, Introductory Fiction Writing.  324 is a Bacc Core (though not a WIC) class, so it attracts a mix of students.  Most of them enjoyed the intro class and … Continue reading

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Canvas: It’s not all that smart on its own.

Course management tools are useful–we can, I’m sure, all think of ways that they make a professor’s life easier.  No need to have course packets of readings ready to be copied a month before the term starts, no need to … Continue reading

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