Distance Teaching and Learning Summit for Online Leadership & Administration Plus Roundtable, Presented by UPCEA, July 25-27, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin.
Our presentation, “You Belong Here: Building an Equitable and Inclusive Online Learning Community,” delivered to over 50 attendees, addressed the rapid growth of global learning and threats to affirmative action.…
Profile Aaron Bannasch
Senior Instructional Technologist at Northwestern University School of Professional Studies. Supervises staff and contract technologists and a student employee.
While PowerPoint is a very effective tool for creating visual aids when used properly (or artistically, or satirically), it can be harmful when misused. Suggestions for appropriate use of PowerPoint have been documented in various blog posts on the Distance Learning website.…
The Distance Learning Studio has received some equipment upgrades in time for Summer course development. If you have yet to record a video in the studio or would like to see how the studio can enhance your course contact distanteeducation@northwestern.edu and find out!…
Use Panopto when You Want to Know More About How Students Watch Videos
If you use video in your Canvas course, you might use Panopto to create or host your videos. Panopto videos are capable of showing detailed student interaction data.…
When teaching an asynchronous, online course it can be difficult to find a time for a guest speaker to appear in your course. A guest speaker can instead record a presentation or speech on their own and send a recording for use in your online course, or you can host an web conference to help facilitate a recording and capture a conversation between you and your guest.…
Canvas provides many ways to change due dates of assignments. When copying a course from one quarter to the next you can use the Shift Dates feature during a Course Import. If you keep the same due date pattern each quarter, then simply setting a new start and end date for the duration of the course will distribute the dates evenly.…
Instructional Technologists William Guth and Aaron Bannasch hosted the November Online Learning Webinar to demonstrate Ways to Use Panopto in Online Courses for Recording and Sharing Videos. Recently announced by Northwestern IT on the Digital Learning website, Panopto is a cloud-based video lecture capture tool for training, teaching, and presenting that allows for easy recording and webcasting as well as the management of video content.…
Since Northwestern IT recently announced the launch of Panopto, the Office of Distance Learning has been working to evaluate uses of this Learning Technology. There are many simple ways to use Panopto in Online Courses and a few will be shared in this blog post.…
About the course revision process
The MUSEUM 370 – Museum Origins and Issues course is one of three courses in the Museum Studies Online Certificate Program and the first to undergo a revision process. The revision of MUSEUM 370 included conversion of lecture content into combination of rich content pages, audio podcasts, and weekly overview videos hosted by the course instructor.…
Sheena Lyonnais wrote on the Adobe Creative Cloud blog that “in a world where everything is identified by icons and avatars, it is no wonder the study of semiotics is beginning to make its way into the discourse of user experience design.” (Lyonnais, 2016).…