EdTech Blog
8 Comparison Tables of Available Teaching Technologies
What tool should you use and when? Let us help you make a thoughtful decision about which tool works for you!
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Lessons from your colleagues: Fabian’s “Engage!” webinar
Worried about online student engagement? This is the session for you! Discussing strategies for both synchronous and asynchronous teaching, there is something to learn for everyone!
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Weekly Quercus Updates (July 2, 2020)
This week: Top Hat Integration, Upcoming Canvas Updates, New Webinars!
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Lessons from your colleagues: Using OneNote for Remote Teaching
In this session for the Webinar Series: Lessons from your colleagues, Scott Ramsay discussed the ways that he has been using Microsoft OneNote for lecture delivery in the remote learning environment and a bit about his teaching set up!
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Quercus and SCORMs – Lessons Learned from a Half-decade of Creating Engaging eLearning Experiences at UToronto
This session led by Prof. Graeme Norval and Dr. Jeffrey Castrucci walked us through the applications of SCORMs inside Quercus.
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PeerScholar: An Introduction to Peer Review (with a Student Perspective)
Considering activity and assessment options for your course? Find out what students think about PeerScholar and peer assessment as a learning tool!
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Weekly Quercus Updates (June 18, 2020)
This week: Avoid New Quizzes, submit your ideas, more system updates!
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Weekly Quercus Updates (June 11, 2020)
This week: BB Collaborate updates, Canvas updates, and a new MyMedia beta preview!
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Schedule a group/Departmental tutorial session!
The Education Technology Office is scheduling group/Departmental sessions to help support the adpation to online/remote learning.
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Implementing EdTech into your teaching
In learning theory, you hear a lot about taxonomies and models – Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956), Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning Experiences (1940), Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (1984) are all great ones to star
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Weekly Quercus Updates (April 2, 2020)
This week: Extend your course dates, how to sync Quercus to Crowdmark, and upcoming Quercus and Bb Collaborate release dates.
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Don’t forget to hit record!
If possible, it is recommended that you record any live course sessions, to allow access for those who were not able to attend, had technical difficulties, or perhaps were unable to access the tech required to attend. This is, of course, a personal decision – thank you for considering it. Additionally, if you have PDFs or other annotated files, these could be shared with your class as well (pre- allows them to follow along; post- allows them to review).
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