The Teaching Innovation Blog

For the inaugural blog in my Canvas Magic series, I introduce faculty to simple ways to restore deleted Canvas content. Recently, I received a call from a stressed faculty member. She was reviewing her course’s content and accidentally deleted all its exams—the same exams she was planning to import into her next iteration of the… Read more: Canvas Magic: Restoring Deleted Content

As OneDrive storage is decreased, this blog advocates for creating, storing, and sharing course videos with Panopto. Beginning this summer, the University’s OneDrive storage will be significantly decreased. Specifically, storage quotas in existing student, faculty, and staff OneDrive accounts will gradually be reduced to 3GB. As quotas are reduced, Ball State faculty may consider moving… Read more: Creating, Storing, and Sharing Your Videos with Panopto 

Learn how Caleb used his experience as an instructional consultant to make sense of his first time back in the classroom after a years-long break. This academic year, I taught for the first time since 2021. In my time away from teaching, many shifts in education have occurred. In this blog, I share insights and… Read more: Observations After My Teaching Gap Years  

Just like a “burger” can mean different things across cultures, so too can education, requiring educators to consider diverse learning backgrounds and adapt their classrooms accordingly. I tell this story to highlight how we all approach our lives with the experience that we have had thus far, and this experience is deeply rooted in our… Read more: Education is Like a Burger, Culturally Bound 

To help instructors utilize Panopto in their own courses, this article details how I integrated Panopto into my online COMM 210 course this spring. What is Panopto?  Available to Ball State faculty and employees, Panopto is a video platform for creating, managing, and sharing video content.   If you are interested in using Panopto as a… Read more: How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course