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Since You’ve Been Gone

Since You’ve Been Gone 10+ Things That Are New In Canvas To help get you up to speed for Fall ... Quarter, here are the 10+ Things That Are New In Canvas Since You’ve Been Gone (cue Kelly Clarkson’s song). ... ideal for tablets. In addition to allowing you to grade and provide feedback on student work with a new ...
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TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

04/25/2018 - 12:00pm
datasets. In the past few years, there has been an explosion in the number of valid citizen science projects ... resistance to antibiotics. The platform currently supports over 80 active projects, in collaboration with ... hundreds of researchers across the disciplines, and has led to over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Zooniverse ...
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TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

04/25/2018 - 3:00pm
In the past few years, there has been an explosion in the number of valid citizen science projects ... resistance to antibiotics. The platform currently supports over 80 active projects, in collaboration with ... hundreds of researchers across the disciplines, and has led to over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Zooniverse ...
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5 Ways to Spruce Up Your Course Site

refreshed or instructions could be made clearer. Improve your course Perhaps as you’ve been updating and ... story, heard a podcast, or read an article related to your course recently? Have you wanted to share ... reflecting, you’ve realized you’d like to make some slightly bigger changes to your course. Maybe your ...
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The Block Museum, Graduate School team up to change face of museum fellowships

anthropology, has been named the inaugural Block Museum interdisciplinary fellow for 2017-18. Derderian brings ... have long been integral members of the museum staff, providing support for exhibition and collection ... candidates, was the subject of articles in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ...
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Learning from Digital Water Cooler Conversations

Screen-Shot-2017-05-09-at-10.58.27-AM-29qdgdh.png   IS THERE EVIDENCE OF LEARNING? Informal-Learning-Analysis-13zp4pt.jpg ... academic, typical of the conversations you might expect to hear in corridors or dining halls. ... Evidence-of-learning-25ouckb.png Full Article: Scott, K.S., Sorokti, K. H., & Merrell, J. D. (2016) Learning “beyond the ...
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Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know

Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know (Online)

03/30/2023 - 12:00pm
you may have questions about copyright. Can you use articles you’ve published during your time at ... Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know (Online) As you prepare your dissertation, ... Northwestern? What about images and texts by other creators? This workshop will help you understand copyright as ...
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Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know

Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know (Online)

04/26/2023 - 12:00pm
you may have questions about copyright. Can you use articles you’ve published during your time at ... Your Dissertation and Copyright: What You Need to Know (Online) As you prepare your dissertation, ... Northwestern? What about images and texts by other creators? This workshop will help you understand copyright as ...
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Northwestern Digital Learning Podcast: Episode 10, Singer Savvy

night.  Could you each give us a little bit of a demo? [11:09-12:08] Benedict demonstrates how he uses the ... had surgery and have been told to rest their voice by a doctor—it is a great way to make sure you ... well.  The other interest I've had is from speech language pathologists. When you're [feeling] ...
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Open Educational Resources for All

educator, you’ve probably heard of OER by now. OER stands for Open Educational Resources — resources that ... project. Making edits to OER What if you’ve found something that looks promising, but it could use some ... easy to download and convert the text into an editable document. If you’ve downloaded a PDF of the OER, ...
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Michel David-Well Scholarship Campus Deadline!!!

11/13/2017 - 12:00am
a monetary value of $80,000 and covers the cost of tuition and living expenses during a two-year master’s ... multiculturalism, tolerance and high achievement. Get Started Funding Opportunities Monday, 13 November 2017 ...
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Presentation Proposals Now Open

your submission could include: how you’ve created peer communities in the online space to share ... effective teaching techniques around the shift to remote instruction; how you’ve maintained a connection ... with your students and created engaging class sessions using Zoom; or how you’ve leveraged ed-tech ...
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Natural Language Processing, Part Two: Advanced Applications

article to the expected readership. At Northwestern this has been used to measure the increase in use of ... 2019 by  Philip Burns This is the second article of four about Natural Language Processing. The  first ... article  introduced basic concepts and fundamental methods. In the previous article in this series, we ...
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Discussion-Based Teaching: Eliciting Conversation & Navigating Controversy

11/13/2018 - 2:00pm
that you are tasked with leading a discussion about the issues raised in this article for a class. What ... would you have about discussing this material in a classroom setting? Article Link: ... Discussion-Based Teaching: Eliciting Conversation & Navigating Controversy How can you ...
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TriQuarterly Archive Available Online

been published in TriQuarterly, as well as, of course, Chicagoan Stuart Dybek. Naomi Shihab Nye, poet ... and novelist, recently told us, “ TriQuarterly has always been the most distinguished literary journal ... was an intensely active and fascinating world,” he said, referring to the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. “Then ...
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R: Refresher

07/17/2018 - 9:00am
R: Refresher Has it been a while since you used R? Maybe you used it for a project or course, but ... Import and use packages Read documentation and get more help Prerequisites: You’ve used R at least once. ... never really learned the basics? Are you familiar with data analysis and scripting and looking for ...
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Five Frequently Asked Canvas Questions

whether it be links to PDFs, articles, book chapters, or streaming media. If you have any questions about ... a flexible system, and with that flexibility comes some complexities for you as an instructor. Here are some ... you have any Canvas questions or would like to meet with a Canvas expert, let us know and we'd be ...
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[VIRTUAL} Get Social: Add Yellowdig to Your Course

04/14/2017 - 12:00pm
reside right in your Canvas course. Students can share links to articles, videos and more and then ... comment and debate about the shared content. Join us to learn if Yellowdig is right for you and how to set ... to Canvas Friday, 14 April 2017- 12:00pm to 1:00pm Source Link:  ...
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Involving Teaching Assistants in the Online Classroom

community-building Introduction Have you been thinking about involving a teaching assistant (TA) in your online ... help instructors manage a demanding online class. Take it from me–I’ve been a TA in an online course! ... benefit and ours. Start with the Pragmatics Once you’ve identified a TA for your online course, talk ...
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Learning Analytics

Learning Analytics: the Basics

more.  Perhaps you’ve heard the term “learning analytics.” You may have heard it used in the same phrase ... been gathered and run through analysis programs, the researchers create reports that can enable action ... did well in class X often do well in major Y, they’ve just helped to create a degree pathway. We’ll be ...
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I've Found the Haystack, Now What?: Getting Started with Learning Analytics

03/07/2017 - 12:00pm
I've Found the Haystack, Now What?: Getting Started with Learning Analytics Learning ... analytics has been broadly defined as using a variety of data about learners and learning environments to ... map: Google Maps Illinois US Tuesday, 7 March 2017- 12:00pm to 1:00pm Source Link:  ...
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Northwestern Digital Learning Podcast: Episode 9, Undergraduate Research

Garden with Dr. Pati Vitt. I've been there for the past three years and I've been working on the ... that has been introduced. I've been looking at the reproductive biology of the plant, trying to ... applying in terms of fields and backgrounds over the last decade that I've been associated with this ...
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Dr. James Hodge

Spotlight: Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop Projects

project has been going over the past nine months… Q: Since the summer workshop, how has your project ... the students’ feeling about doing this kind of work? The student reaction has been very positive. Many ... my chief goals in teaching this course has been to convince students that the analysis of form is ...
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[CHICAGO] Get Social: Add Yellowdig to Your Course

03/31/2017 - 12:00pm
reside right in your Canvas course. Students can share links to articles, videos and more and then ... comment and debate about the shared content. Join us to learn if Yellowdig is right for you and how to set ... US Friday, 31 March 2017- 12:00pm to 1:00pm Source Link:  ...
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Web-conferencing

Web Conferencing Options for the 2018-19 Academic Year

With the Fall 2018 quarter approaching you should begin checking if your web conferencing software is ... up to date and familiarizing yourself with any changes that may have occurred since you last taught ... an online course. If you regularly rely on BlueJeans you can continue to do so, although it always ...
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Preparation for Fall Final Exams and Grading

this article was originally shared in The Canvas Post. You can read the original version as well as ... Preparation for Fall Final Exams and Grading Resources and Reminders Well, we’ve just about made ... for the final two tasks to close it out: finals and grading. As a  recent article  in Inside Higher Ed ...
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Get Social: Add Yellowdig to Your Course

09/13/2017 - 10:00am
in your Canvas course. Students can share links to articles, videos and more and then comment and ... debate about the shared content. Join us to learn if Yellowdig is right for you and how to set it up in ... 2635 60208 Evanston, IL United States See map: Google Maps Illinois US Wednesday, 13 September 2017 ...
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The Lightboard

Lightboard Studio

could clearly read what I’m writing.” Lightboard use has gone beyond McCormick to many other ... campuses. In many cases the Lightboard has been used to augment existing one button studios and high ... production value video facilities. Faculty from across Northwestern have been using the Lightboard studio for ...
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Get Social: Add Yellowdig to Your Course

01/05/2017 - 3:30pm
in your Canvas course. Students can share links to articles, videos and more and then comment and ... debate about the shared content. Join us to learn if Yellowdig is right for you and how to set it up in ... 5 January 2017- 3:30pm to 4:30pm Source Link:  http://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/505264 ...
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Get Social: Add Yellowdig to Your Course

01/12/2017 - 10:30am
in your Canvas course. Students can share links to articles, videos and more and then comment and ... debate about the shared content. Join us to learn if Yellowdig is right for you and how to set it up in ... Google Maps Illinois US Thursday, 12 January 2017- 10:30am to 11:30am Source Link:  ...
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