The theme of the 2017-18 Innovative Teaching Showcase was "Engaging Social Justice." Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing social justice in the practice of teaching. See also: Teaching Handbook: Social Justice Toolkit "When you make the decision to...
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...
The theme of the 2022-23 Innovative Teaching Showcase is “Difficult Conversations.” Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing difficult conversations in the practice of teaching. When I do introduce [a difficult topic], my students love it because [it]...
If you're hoping to elevate your video call experience by using your iPhone as a webcam, there is currently no native plug-and-play method. Luckily, AJ Barse with Digital Alchemy has put together a few ways to accomplish this:...
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course made by ATUS and CII, which is the primary site for accessing professional development offerings each term: ATUS-CII Teaching, Learning, & Technology ProDev See...
This course is a starting guide for anyone who might be new to Canvas, WWU, and the Bellingham community. Hosted by your friendly (Bellingham) neighborhood Canvas Admin, Chris Powell (ATUS), along with AJ Barse (ATUS instructional designer) and Deran Browne (ATUS...
Members of the Western community can learn how to use Panopto--Western's video management system--to easily create, upload, host, and share videos with your students in Canvas or with any audience. This following post includes relevant documentation and videos to get...
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...
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course for a collection of videos and help docs organized in an each-to-learn collection: WWU Canvas Orientation for Faculty In addition, WWU's students can enroll in this...
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...
Click here to watch a video from the Instructional Design Video Library: MacOS: Allowing Screen Recording (System Preferences). An overview of how to change your Security & Privacy settings in the MacOS to allow applications, such as Zoom, access to your screen so...
Updated Feb. 5, 2025 Good course design that is accessible creates a learning environment that is usable in an equitable way for all students, including students with disabilities. It's also a federal regulation! On April 24, 2024, the Department of Justice published...
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...
by Deborah Hanuscin, Professor, SMATE and Elementary Education, WWU As an undergraduate, I never went to office hours– not even once! As a first-generation college student, I had no idea what office hours were for. Thinking back now, while I feel a bit embarrassed...
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...
Learn how to Zoom meeting recordings from your Zoom account on the cloud to your WWU Panopto account. See also: Moving Zoom Recordings to Canvas Automatically Via Panopto. Explore more videos from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library and Flexible Modality Toolkit.
Incorporating the suggested etiquette for online learning can help everyone be more successful in online courses, in Zoom or Teams video conferencing, or with online collaborative work. DOs & DON’Ts for Online Learning - Suggestions for online learners, compiled...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to share a video that you have uploaded to your OneDrive via a link, both with individual people or with your Canvas course, and how to adjust the link in Canvas to make it...
OneNote is a great tool for encouraging students to work together in breakout rooms on a single document that is easy to access after coming together as a class. For more information on this strategy see Utilizing Breakout Rooms and Online Tools for Student...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to share a video from Microsoft Stream in OneNote, with a direct link that automatically embeds the video in OneNote. See also: Share a Video (Microsoft Stream) Image Attribution:...
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Discussion looks very different online than it may look in your traditional classroom setting. However, that doesn't mean that the...
View the following videos to learn how to set up online office hours via Canvas, Zoom, and Calendly. First, learn how to create and share online office hours for your classes using the Calendar feature in Canvas. See also: How to Setup Online Office Hours (ATUS...
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...