Link to the downloadable PDF Agenda. Do you teach a web-enhanced, hybrid, or an online class? Learn about creating an engaging and collaborative learning environment online using Canvas. Save These Dates! August 15-16 Instructional Designers will conduct interactive workshops and presentations on the following topics: Applying Accessibility principles to Word documents and Canvas Pages Canvas Tools – ...more about Announcing the eLearning Summer Institute on August 15-16
The Canvas Dashboard is the first page you see upon logging into Canvas. Each of your classes appears as a colored "tile," arranged alphabetically in a grid, with the item number and course name in small-ish text below the big block of color. Up until this point, the only way you could customize each tile ...more about New Canvas Feature: Dashboard Images for Courses
The 30-minute workshop Introduction to Closed Captioning that was presented in the Interactive eLearning Center earlier this quarter is now available at the eLearningMedia Bellevue College channel at YouTube. We will continue to present this workshop in the Interactive eLearning Center during spring quarter for those of you who are on campus and would like to ...more about Introduction to Closed Captioning
With accessibility issues taking center stage in our courses, faculty are looking for the simplest, fastest way to add closed captioning to self-produced instructional videos. YouTube can both host your instructional videos and provide rudimentary closed captions. The captions will need to be edited and that will be the topic of another post. There is a ...more about Creating a YouTube Channel
When I have a few spare moments I enjoy browsing the shelves in the Library Media Center (LMC) to find journals relevant to teaching and learning. The journals are on the first floor just to the left of the stairs as you enter the library. I discovered New Directions for Higher Education, a Jossey-Bass (Wiley ...more about On the Shelf in the Library Media Center: New Directions in Higher Education
Want to know how to use technology more effectively in the classroom and online? Check out Teacher Tech Tips and Teacher Tips through Bellevue College’s Lynda.com subscription. The host of Teacher Tech Tips, Oliver Schinkten, creates 2 to 10 minute videos showing a new tip each week. These short segments include such timely topics as ...more about Teacher Tech Tips at Lynda.com
Dear Faculty, Learn how you can make easy changes and additions to your Canvas courses in order to create an inclusive course environment for all students. The Accessibility 101: Principles of Inclusive Design (ONLINE) workshop is being offered with flexibility to complete assignments in six weeks. The purpose of this course is to introduce participants ...more about Workshop-Accessibility 101: Principles of Inclusive Design
If so, this is a great place to start! This checklist was developed by the Bellevue College eLearning Council for instructors and course designers who are teaching or building hybrid and online courses for the first time.
The Online DTA Project is a pilot collaboration where faculty members work with instructional designers to create a high quality course in Canvas that meets the Bellevue College Direct Transfer Agreement (DTA) requirements in addition to following best practices in design and Quality Matters (QM) guidelines. The presentation occurred May 19th and highlighted the successes of the faculty members from different divisions. Both faculty and instructional designers involved in the project explained the way the process worked and demonstrated the finished products.
Two day webinar On April 27-28, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PT, you are invited to join members of the eLearning Council community to attend, “Exploring the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment: Opportunities and Challenges,” a two-day, online focus session, organized by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) (http://www.educause.edu/eli). Join your campus colleagues for an important ...more about Exploring the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment
