Tuesday Tips, May 18, 2021

 TECH TIP: Annotation Submissions now in Canvas

A recent update to Canvas is that students can now annotate a document that you upload right in Canvas (before this students would have to use an external tool like Kami to do this) and submit it back to you.  To create the Assignment, under Submission Type in your Assignment settings, you can now select Student Annotation and then upload the document they will be annotating:

Students then do the annotations in the document viewer and submit that back to you in Canvas.

BOOK TIP:  We Begin At the End by Chris Whitaker

  I just finished this book and I can't stop thinking about it.  It is the story of Duchess, Walk, Star, Robin and Vincent and how all their lives changed a night 30 years ago when a young girl was killed and Vincent went to jail for her death.  Part detective novel, part coming of age book, it is a wonderful book about family, hope, and being an outlaw.  

Tuesday Tips: May 11, 2021

 TECH TIP:  VideoAnt:  Create online discussions around a video

  Video Ant was developed by the University of Minnesota as a way to create interactive, online discussions based on a video (from Youtube or one of your own).  At VideoAnt, you upload your video, add in any annotations (aka "ants") that you'd like and then share the video with your students.  Depending on your permissions, students can add in their own annotations or comments to the video, thus making it a bit more interactive than just answering questions.  Here is a quick overview video on VideoAnt:

BOOK TIP:  Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld

  A couple years ago, my husband and I went to see Jerry Seinfeld in person and my cheeks hurt from laughing so much.  This new book by Seinfeld is a compilation of his years of joke writing.  Comedians will write their material, then share it with other comedians and ask, "Is this anything?" Seinfeld cleaned out 45 years of folders of notes and jokes and put them in this book.  I did this as an audio (which I highly recommend), with Seinfeld himself narrating, and laughed at out loud throughout.  If you need a laugh, this is the book for you.