Creating an inclusive Classroom for Neurodivergent learners
I presented at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese in Boston, MA on March 16, 2023 on the topic of how to create an inclusive classroom for language learners. In this blog post, I will share some of the resources that I mentioned during my presentation. I’m hoping to continue exchanging ideas with others […]
Teaching with Tech Tips: Making Slides Quickly!
Now that I’ve been back in the classroom for a little while, I’m starting to collect various tips and tricks for preparing my course materials. I teach Japanese to high schoolers in the upper mid-west, so I don’t really have my pick of ready-made curricular materials. I generally make my own versions of activities even […]
CALICO 2019 Redux or Why I Go To CALICO
I just got back from CALICO 2019, this year held in beautiful Montréal. It’s always a good experience, and this year was even better than before in a lot of ways.
Expanding faculty support with Academic Technology Student Assistants
I was in a conference session recently when the topic of using student workers to provide instructional support of faculty was raised as a tangent to how to engage faculty in technology training and instructional design. I was surprised to hear that many in the room felt that it was inappropriate to have students supporting […]
Themes from AZCALL & My Current Research
Recently, I attended a small conference called AZCALL 2018 hosted by the CALL Club of Arizona State University. This one-day conference was planned by the graduate students in the CALL Club at ASU for the first time, anticipating about 60 people to attend. To their surprise, actual registrations doubled that number! The best part of […]
CALICO 2018 Notes & Reflections
I’m attending CALICO 2018, held at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. I’ve decided to blog after the first day of sessions because I expect that I will be far too overwhelmed after day two to make any sense of it all! It’s been several years since I’ve made it to a CALICO conference, but […]
ELI 2018 Reflections – Ethnographic Study of Instructional Innovation
This year I had the opportunity to once again attend ELI 2018. This conference is a really nice mix of instructional technologists, instructional designers, faculty, librarians and educational technology leaders. I love how I always walk away with many things to consider. Many sessions reports (though not all) are delivered from the perspective of larger […]
Installing & Typing Ancient Greek (2017)
I used to maintain a whole site dedicated to the instructions for enabling English-based computers to type in the many languages that we teach at Carleton. That site still exists, but is horribly out of date. It’s just gotten so much easier to enable foreign language inputs on computers, and it seems that more and […]
What’s New in Moodle! – 2017
As we do every year here at Carleton, we have upgraded to a new version of Moodle for the 2017-18 academic year. We are now using Moodle 3.3, which comes with a few new features and improvements to existing tools. This post is a summary of those new features, but watch for future posts that […]
Journals or Lab Notebooks in Moodle
This post is really similar to my previous post on Small Group Discussions, but focused more on individual students and their learning progress throughout the course. The advantage of using this technique benefits both the instructor and the student. And if the instructor actively participates in the forum with comments and feedback, it can also help […]
