Interested in using WordPress to create your own class site, personal site, or portfolio site? Visit https://wp.wwu.edu to get started on creating your personalized website. Simply select which type of WordPress website you're interested in creating and enter your...
The Digital Media Center is an space on campus with the facilities and equipment for the professional production of media content. Students and faculty can reserve a TV studio with a green screen, camera and lighting equipment, and a control room, as well as a Virtual...
Watch this video for a walkthrough of the process of setting up an appointment online to record with the Digital Media Center at Western Washington University. Image Attribution: waiting-410328_1920 by JESHOOTS-com is in the Public Domain, CC0
WWU's Digital Media Center is available for scheduling in-person recording on campus; however, the DMC also supports recording high quality video from your home office (with a strong internet signal). This tutorial walks through the process of setting up your...
Traditional assessment strategies such as exams and quizzes are not always the most impactful way to measure student learning. Equitable assessment strategies provide students with opportunities to express their learning and growth in more than one way. This...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Zoom has a few different feedback options, that allow you to get immediate feedback from students, that are called "reactions" and...
In this article for the Educause Review, Putting Your Best Self Forward: 6 Keys For Filming Quality Videos, Jered Borup goes over tips and tricks for producing quality videos for your students. These include what to do and what not to do with your setup (camera,...
By Jennifer Riepl, Education Leadership & Inclusive Teaching Overview Working with Indigenous youth has opened my eyes to the many disparities in education, from elementary through university. As a math and history teacher, I’ve used many different textbooks and...
When remote teaching became part of our everyday language, our ATUS and CIIA staff compiled many resource pages to help support teaching and learning. These sites continue to evolve and provide essential resources for the many modalities in which we teach and learn......
by Deborah Hanuscin, Professor, SMATE and Elementary Education, WWU Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is designed to give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. The UDL framework offers flexibility in ways students access material...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to share a video you have uploaded to your Western G Suite account (GoogleDrive) with a link, including an overview of the link sharing options and how to adjust the link in Canvas to...
Representing graded components of your class properly in the Canvas learning management system is essential for sharing accurate grades with students and for ensuring transparency between your expectations and theirs. Guiding Questions Can students easily find the...
The Heuristic for Inclusive Instructional Design (HIID) was created by staff at the Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment and Outreach & Continuing Education as a questioning tool that could be layered with other instructional design methods to help...
by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Assistant Professor, English, WWU Common challenges in teaching larger courses (GUR) In teaching my recent GUR (around 60 students), I felt I struggled to gain the student trust, commitment, attendance, and involvement that I was used to in my...
The theme of the 2016-17 Innovative Teaching Showcase was "Critical Thinking." Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing critical thinking in the practice of teaching. See also: Teaching Handbook: Critical Thinking Toolkit “Within the current cultural...
The theme of the 2018-19 Innovative Teaching Showcase was "Open Educational Practices." Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing OER in the practice of teaching. See also: Teaching Handbook: OER Toolkit "By replacing a static textbook — or other stable...
Monday Morning Mentor delivers a 20-minute online program each week, addressing some of today’s most important academic issues and teaching strategies. For weekly 20-minute videos and resources, members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join...
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course by the WWU Student Technology Center, focused on teaching faculty, students, and staff about tech literacies, application support, and technology skills. STC Online...
The Teaching & Learning Cooperative (TLCo-op) has facilitated workshops to help faculty develop courses for blended/hybrid and online courses every year since 2012. These workshops, sponsored by the Provost, focus on sound design practices and project development....
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course to view recordings, slides, and resources from recent professional development offerings related to teaching, learning, and technology strategies. This is the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMPt_k7TBepdRPXY38rk2sXTYcb1jwYhF&v=t0fmzvVqFzM&feature=emb_imp_woyt Learn more about how to elevate your synchronous video stream or asynchronous recording using your Logitech camera by watching this video by AJ Barse, or...
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Group assignments offer one way for students to engage with course content and demonstrate their learning. Collaboration offers an opportunity to students to refine their ideas and receive...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Microsoft Stream is a video creating and sharing app that is free through the Office 365 suite. You can upload videos and share...
One of the concerns faculty have about teaching is the worry that what is being taught isn't effectively being learned or that student needs are not being met. It can be frustrating, but a simple solution could be to do a mid-point survey to find out what students...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, digital teaching resources including textbooks, journal articles, podcasts, video, and...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. In this new digital world, something that might be worth considering is using an open, digital textbook. One of the benefits to...
Panopto is the primary media management tool for video at WWU. Panopto is an easy-to-use, centralized media/video management application that is integrated directly in Canvas to provide video recording, editing, uploads, streaming playback, automated video captioning,...