Date posted: November 16, 2018
What is Backward Design? Now that students are registering for your Winter courses, you may be thinking about any course redesigns or remodels you want to implement. (Or, you may be thinking about building anew or even starting from scratch if you’ve just been assigned a course you’ve never taught.) One of the best ways ...more about Backward Course Design
Date posted: November 10, 2018
Virtual Reality Professionals Panel "Come and meet young professionals in the emerging tech field of virtual reality. The first hour is a traditional panel discussion and the second hour for virtual reality demos and networking. Our panelists are: Xuny Haley from CoMotion Labs at the UW Jack Pritz from Unity, Amanda Watson from Oculus Michael Gelon ...more about Innovation in Virtual Worlds
Date posted: October 30, 2018
When planning, designing, building, or remodeling a course, it is important to keep every aspect of the architecture in mind. Small changes anywhere can have big effects everywhere, so you want to make sure when you meddle with your course, you keep all the outcomes in mind. One way to remember all the moving parts ...more about uMeddle (Thoughts on Course Design)
Date posted: October 22, 2018
Use Canvas to overcome barriers to learning - Explore in depth tools in Canvas that enhances student learning. Fall quarter start date: Tuesday October 23 ends November 30Audience: Faculty or StaffRequired: Completion of Canvas 101PD Hours: On completion participants receive 22 hrs of professional development time.Review the SyllabusFacilitator: Mandie Nash, Interactive eLearning Instructional Designer The ...more about Register for Canvas 201: Take your Course to the next level!
Date posted: September 17, 2018
Over the summer, Bruce Wolcott received a 360 camera from the Communication Studies Department. Enjoy this 360 view slide show of the Interactive eLearning space in D140 and the location of our XR lab which will be ready for winter quarter.
Date posted: August 22, 2018
Two successful days of sharing and experiencing new educational technologies! We unveiled our Lightboard in Room Q. Here are the Highlights of the two days. Well planned activities by our Instructional designers Keith Rowley, Betsy Zahrt Geib, Brian Bergen-Aurand and Bruce Wolcott. A big thankyou to Teri Hull, Heather Rane, Larry Boykin and Gordon Hom ...more about Interactive eLearning Summer Teaching Institute 2018 Highlights
Date posted: August 2, 2018
Instructure has just released a New Gradebook! It is enabled at the course level, and is not enabled by default -- by default you'll keep using the regular old gradebook, so if you wish to take a look at it, you'll need to turn it on in at least one of your classes. See those ...more about Meet the New Canvas Gradebook
Date posted: July 31, 2018
Update from Bruce Wolcott Teaching Faculty | Instructional Designer | Communication Studies | Interactive eLearning Center The newly developing XR Lab, located within the Bellevue College Interactive eLearning Center, continues this exploration of virtual worlds technologies, by: Partnering with Bellevue College faculty to provide live VR learning experiences for students to augment current curricula in ...more about XR Lab and Virtual worlds technologies
Date posted: July 1, 2018
Save the Date! Do you teach a web-enhanced, hybrid, or an online class? Learn about creating an engaging and collaborative learning environment online using Canvas. Save These Dates! August 21st - August 22nd, 2018 Instructional Designers will conduct interactive workshops and presentations on the following possible topics: Canvas Basics: Aligning Your Syllabus, Rubrics, and Gradebook Importing ...more about eLearning Summer Teaching Institute 2018
Date posted: June 8, 2018
LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER | ROOM D140 | 425-564-4210 Email contact: elearning@bellevuecollege.edu Summer quarter start date: Monday July 9th, Registration is closed Participant: Faculty Facilitator: Bruce Wolcott, Interactive eLearning Instructional Designer Canvas 101 is perfect for new online instructors, and it is modular so instructors with varied backgrounds and experience can select the order of the ...more about Canvas 101: Teaching with Canvas
