Discovering (Google) Gemini Canvas
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been using AI over the last year to help refine emails for clarity or brainstorm lesson plans. Exploring AI tools is definitely a journey of discovery. It takes some time to test what works, but it’s incredibly rewarding when you find the ones that click. Recently, I started experimenting […]
Instructional Illusions
In classrooms worldwide, we often confuse busyness with learning, novelty with effectiveness, and engagement with deep understanding. In Instructional Illusions, Kirschner, Hendrick and Heal (2025) pull back the curtain on ten pervasive but misleading assumptions about teaching and learning—what look like good practices on the surface, but which cognitive science shows are often counterproductive. This […]
Making Your Canvas Course More Accessible with UDOIT
As instructors and instructional designers, we strive to remove barriers of learning. And one way of doing that is ensuring our content meets accessibility standards. But ensuring all our online content meets accessibility standards can feel daunting—especially if we are not sure where to start. Enter UDOIT—an accessibility checker built right into Canvas. And as […]
Engaging Students with Academic Reading
Reading is fundamental to the learning process. Yet, there is increasing concern that students are not engaging with assigned readings (McMurtrie, B. 2024; Stripling, J. 2024). When students don’t engage with assigned readings, they miss critical information, their classroom participation is limited, and their academic performance and peer learning suffer. Some barriers to reading are: […]
