Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat strategies are educators using to address the anxiety and stress of current high school students? What technology accessibility barriers are educators trying to overcome? Is there a reason to assign homework anymore? Rob and Jared chat with Hank Hacker (Economics teacher at Greeneview High School) and Garrett Rinehard (Chemistry teacher at Bellefontaine High School) about how these issues are affecting their students. Our listener survey is still open, so please let us know how we can make the podcast even better. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Serving Students for Growth
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIs the level of maturity changing in college students? How can educators serve students and assist as they become professionals? Rob and Jared lay the groundwork for this conversation as they chat with Cedarville University’s Dr. Thomas Hutchison (Professor of Educational Ministries and Applied Theology) and Dr. Chris Miller (Senior Professor of Biblical Studies) about developing maturity and resilience in college students. Our listener survey is still open, so please let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Creating an Accessible Learning Environment
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat accessibility standards need to be considered when designing a course? How do these considerations serve the needs of students? Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Amy Lomellini, Director of Accessibility at Anthology, about strategies for creating accessible courses for the sake of students. Our listener survey is still open, so please let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Canvas Update: Fixing SpeedGrader for Discussions
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Canvas recently added the discussion checkpoints feature, the way SpeedGrader operated for all discussions changed, too, removing the option to see a single student’s posts in one place and instead showing the entire discussion thread. On Wednesday, March 12, that will change as Canvas modifies the SpeedGrader interface once more to give instructors the choice of how to view their students’ discussion posts. If you want to view discussions how they were before – only showing one student’s responses at a time – you won’t have to do anything! Canvas is reverting to that being the default state for discussions in SpeedGrader. If you want to…
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Transform Your Teaching: Serving the New College Student
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn our previous series “Understanding the New College Student,” Rob and Jared spoke with experts to discover the characteristics and trials that define the new generation of college students. In this episode, they introduce a new series that will hopefully serve to answer the question of what’s being done to serve the new generation of students to prepare them for life after high school. Our listener survey is still open, so please let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!