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In this follow-up to our Canvas Updates and Tools for Fall 2024 Part 1, we’d like to introduce two brand-new Canvas features that we believe many of you will enjoy exploring: Screen Capture in SpeedGrader and Lucid. SpeedGrader’s New Screen Capture Over the summer, Canvas quietly enhanced the feedback options available in SpeedGrader by adding a new feature called Screen Capture. Located below the Assignment Comments box in the grading pane, this feature allows you to record video feedback (or
A little unfinished business first-- Need to fill out your 2021 challenge form? Here it is! Need to fill out your 2021 SPRINT form? We've got you-- here it is! If you've already filled it out, no need to do it a second time. New year, new Read Great Things Challenge categories! 2022 marks the fifth year of our reading challenge and we're excited to have you in our community of readers. What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge
Despite the fact that sometimes it still feels like April and that yesterday was August 1, the big ol' year that has been 2020 is almost over. What does that mean? Well, it's time to make your "what I read" list and check it twice to make sure you finished your Read Great Things 2020 Challenge categories and see how many books you read to see if you finished the Above Average Reading Challenge. Prizes will be available for winners in December, and we'll have a virtual celebration in January both
A Supreme court justice in a mysterious coma puts his clever clerk in charge and in [repeated] danger in this exciting political thriller that deals with secret government dealings, bioethics, justice, regular ethics, corporate mergers, a chess move as metaphor, and complex family relationships. Title: While Justice Sleeps Author: Stacey Abrams (yes, that Stacey Abrams) Genre: Contemporary fiction, political thriller, who-dunnit Read Great Things 2021 Categories: A book about family; Choose your
A wide-ranging exploration of architecture and innovation, featuring floating foundations, incorporating nature into school design, how temperature can impact our perception of happiness at work, the balance between community and privacy (and choice), and the challenges of living on Mars, among other topics. Title: The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness Author: Emily Anthes Genre: Nonfiction; Popular Science; Psychology of Daily Life
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Have you ever desperately needed the 3-D printed hands of Abraham Lincoln or a mammoth skeleton, but just couldn't find the right file? Good news, everyone-- the Smithsonian has released over 2.8 million images (high resolution, 2- and 3-D) from across its 19 museums and institutions into the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, meaning they are available for anyone to "copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking
Earlier this semester, Instructional Technologies teamed up with Erin Mahoney-Ross, a Canvas expert from Instructure, to deliver a series of webinars on selected Canvas topics. The topics were carefully curated to help broaden faculty’s awareness of Canvas’s tools and capabilities, as well as help provide a better understanding of the student experience on Canvas. If you missed the live webinars, we’ve prepared “on-demand” webinar recordings that are available to you at any time. Grab your
Reader, I confess: I've never read Jane Eyre. I had a profoundly bad experience with another Brontë sister in high school that has biased me against the other Brontës. Fair? Nope, but sometimes reading isn't fair when there are lots of other choices out there. However, I did recently read Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye about a orphan-turned-governess (with some life experience in between) who keeps coming across the opportunity to murder folks. She picks up a copy of Jane Eyre and is compelled to
Emotionally intuitive PIs help an overworked small town investigate the sudden disappearance of two young girls from a parking lot. Fast-paced plot with unexpected twists and turns. This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian. Title: Two Girls Down Author: Louisa Luna Genre: Mystery, Thriller, PI Crime Novel #ReadGreatThings2020 Category: A book that is part of a series [ The Janes-- the second book in the Alex Vega series--is also available at the Orange