Month: December 2012
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D2L 10.1 – How to access your content tools
When I opened up the freshly upgraded D2L today, I was both excited and nervous. I knew there were some great improvements coming (outlined here by Arwen: https://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/2012/11/14/d2lv101review/ ), but I also knew some of the changes would affect the look and feel of content areas. I spend a lot of my time in content…
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Why Open Educational Resources Matter
Definition The concept of open education encapsulates a simple but powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that the open web provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.[1] Free Educational Resources Open Educational Resources (OER) are basically freely available and Internet-based, educational content and curriculum which…
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Images too large? Don’t have Photoshop? What can you do?
ADDING IMAGES TO D2L When helping faculty with their D2L courses I see a common problem almost daily: uploading images to D2L that are full resolution and too large for the screen. Sure, once uploaded to D2L they can be sized on screen visually, but image size itself stays the same – – so over…
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Pushpins in D2L
I recently attended the D2L Regional Users Forum at the BCIT downtown campus in Vancouver and spent a couple of my sessions with a D2L trainer learning about some of the tips and tricks with D2L and came across a little tidbit that may be a bit of a time-saver. In the mini-bar of the…
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Lecture Casting: Echo360 Presentation
On Thursday last week I attended a presentation from the folks at Echo360 about their range of lecture capture solutions. The presentation was hosted down at Camosun College in Victoria. We were delighted to be invited to attend by our colleagues at the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning at Camosun. From what I…