work-life balance

  • 9x9x25 Challenge

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    Todd ConawayYavapai CollegeAlisa CooperMaricopa Community Collegeshttp://9x9x25.wordpress.comI’ll start by saying this is an interesting concept. It’s not surprising that at institutions that are focused on teaching and learning, that many faculty are not going to take the time to write about what they’re doing. The concept is to have faculty write 25 sentences about teaching &

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  • Gamify Canvas: How to Engage Gen Z with Gamification Strategies in Online Classroom Design

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    I’ll fully admit, because of a canceled session, I came into this session late. I’m interested in making Canvas more game-oriented to increase engagement in some professional development programs that we offer. But with that in mind, I’m having a hard time catching up to where this presentation is going. The first (and seemingly only) option

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  • Education in Abundance: Network Learning and Literacies

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    Bonnie StewartUniversity of Prince Edward IslandLink to the presentation slidesSo last night’s so opening keynote was all about “personalized learning.” All well and good, but many of the examples were in math. That makes sense, right? Give students a series of problems to work on in order to gauge where they are in terms of

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  • Cool Tools: Work Smarter, Not Harder

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    Janet Hurn & Julie StraubMiami Universityhttp://jjtechnologies.weebly.comThis session hit VERY close to home, because the presenters are former coworkers. Productivity Tools ScreenLeap – Easily integrates within Google Apps for Education, but can be used without. Allows you to screen shares within the browser.Evernote – End of discussion.Note Anywhere – Chrome extension. Put notes dynamically on a

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  • Pre-Conference Workshop: Instructional Fun Tools That Tantilize

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    I don’t even remember what the title of this workshop is, but when you bring out a BB-8 within the first 5 minutes, you have my attention! Audrey and Brandon are friends, so I might be a little biased, but I’m looking forward to taking away some new tools. Unfortunately, they started off with a

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  • Earth to Evinsmj?

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    According to the WordPress app on my iPad, it’s been about 260 days since my last post. I have no excuses, other than…. Well, I just don’t have one. What I can say is that it’s that time of the year. For the next 5 days or so, I’ll be blogging about the ITC e-Learning

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