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This interactive site serves as the faculty home for all educational and teaching technology needs. It is a hub of information and fosters a peer-to-peer sharing community for topics relating to latest enhancements in Canvas and Zoom, a constantly updated list of teaching tools, classroom pictures, guidance on recording videos for your class, signup for 1:1 consultation time and more. Faculty are invited to share their knowledge & best practices by creating or commenting on posts.
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Recent Posts
Getting Ready to Teach: Winter 2022
Posted 12/22/2021
Use the checklist below as a guide to help you get ready. For technical questions, email kis@kellogg.northwestern.edu; for teaching support questions, email teachingsupport@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Optional Meeting: 12/27...
Don’t Use Virtual Backgrounds: Advice from Tim Calkins
Posted 11/05/2021
Tim Calkins says: So let me offer one piece of advice: show your real background. …Instead of helping us strengthen our personal brand and...
EdTech Conversations, October 2021
Posted 11/01/2021
If you have gotten coffee from the Faculty summit in October, you may have seen me stationed nearby with a sign hosting walk-up consultation...Want a weekly digest of the posts created last week delivered to your inbox? Click the Subscribe button near the bottom of this page.
Faculty Posts
Digital Tools for Student Engagement – Perusall, Mural & Teammates
Posted 10/22/2021
I use three different tools to engage with my class, and for my students to engage with each other. One of them is integrated...
Want To Run Surveys In Your Classroom? PollEverywhere Might Be Worth A Look
Posted 07/12/2021
If you’ve enjoyed using Zoom surveys in your online classes, consider PollEverywhere for your live or hybrid classes. I’ve been using it for several...
Document Camera as an easy, effective “Whiteboard”
Posted 05/04/2021
How do you best replicate the classroom whiteboard when teaching in either hybrid or full zoom modality? This is a question many of us...
Don’t Use Virtual Backgrounds: Advice from Tim Calkins
Posted 11/05/2021
Tim Calkins says: So let me offer one piece of advice: show your real background. …Instead of helping us strengthen our personal brand and...