Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do gaming, storytelling, and music have in common? Can they be used in innovative ways in our teaching practices? Join Rob and Jared as they begin a new series where they will explore how these seemingly uncommon applications in education could be used in innovative/common ways. Have questions about some of the topics we’ve discussed recently? Drop all your burning questions in our form for an upcoming Q&A episode! View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Canvas Update: New Microsoft Teams and Meetings LTI
Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft has released their new Canvas LTI after shutting down the previous Teams / Teams Meetings LTIs. Now, you can find multiple Microsoft products all through the same LTI – Microsoft Education. There’s already a handful of Microsoft products included in this LTI, and this is also where they will be adding future experiences/apps. How can I find it? Microsoft Education is already enabled in your course and navigation, but it will likely be near the bottom. To change where it is in your course’s navigation, go to the navigation tab in your course settings and drag and drop it to wherever you want it! While changing…
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Transform Your Teaching: Metaphors that Stick with Dr. Barbara Oakley
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow can teachers use brain science to design more effective lessons? What do metaphors, working memory, and even a “quadrapus brain” have to do with student learning? In this extended episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Barbara Oakley, author of Uncommon Sense Teaching, about how metaphor and clear direct instruction help both “race cars” and “hikers” learn more deeply. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Highlights from OpenAI on Campus: 5 Takeaways
Reading Time: 3 minutesOpenAI was on campus earlier this week to run some training sessions for both staff and faculty about how to effectively use ChatGPT in your workflow. Sessions covered everything from prompt engineering to effectively using the various tools accessible through our Cedarville workspace. We’ve got a quick recap of the biggest takeaways from the sessions, so let’s dive right in. Set up your personalization/memories settings This is super simple to set up! When logged in to ChatGPT, click on your name in the bottom left corner, then click “Personalization.” From there, you can enable customization, set the style and tone ChatGPT uses when responding, add custom instructions…
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Transform Your Teaching: Farewell Mr. L – A True Servant Teacher
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow does someone remain a faithful educator over the course of their teaching career? What does it look like to invest in students beyond the classroom? How can you effectively pass the baton from one generation of teachers to the next? In this episode, Rob, Jared, and Wes Baker chat with our good friend “Mr. L” (Jim Leightenheimer, Former Associate Professor of Communication at Cedarville University 1982 to 2025) about his time at Cedarville and hear from former students about Mr. L’s influence on their lives and careers. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Flipped Learning, Student Engagement and GAI with Dr. Wes Baker
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow has flipped learning developed over time? What are the best strategies for pushing students towards higher levels of learning? Is there any place for AI in flipped learning? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Wes Baker (former Professor of Communication Arts at Cedarville University from 1977 to 2017). View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Canvas Update: Smart Search
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInstructure has started incorporating AI directly into Canvas with a few features available now and more on the way. Currently, Canvas has added discussion summaries as well as a smart search option in courses. Smart Search allows instructors and students to quickly search course content. Smart Search operates based on its understood context – it isn’t restricted to keyword-based searches like we’re used to with Google or other search engines. This does mean that things you may be used to (like including a search term in quotation marks for an exact search) do not work in Smart Search, but Canvas is working on an updated search…