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innovating…together. Call us: (805) 437-3788Toggle navigation Teaching and Learning Innovations at CI Exploring, learning, and innovating...together. Home TLi Knowledge Base TLi @ CSUCI What We’re Up To We’re always thinking, tinkering, learning, and innovating. Dive in. May 2, 2024 02 May Isaac Ortiz Posted in Opportunities No comments Teaching with a Character! This is the ninth and final post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. *Disclaimer: This is NOT an advertisement for Adobe Character Animator. I just find this particular software tool to be a really engaging way to create ​​fun and interesting characters to improve student engagement in online classes. It’s also available to […] April 23, 2024 23 Apr Megan Eberhardt-Alstot Posted in Opportunities No comments Small Teaching: Transparent Content This is the eighth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. In my last blog, I discussed the small teaching move, Winkelmes et al. (2016) Transparent Assignment Design (TAD). As part of the Transparency In Learning and Teaching (TILT) Project, Winkelmes et al., (2016) studied the impact of a very small and very […] April 16, 2024 16 Apr Georgia Van Tyne Posted in Opportunities No comments Three Digital Strategies to Orient Students to Your Course This is the seventh post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. In your teaching career, think about how many times you have had to remind a student about something included in the syllabus gently. Sometimes, it can be stressful to realize someone has made it deep into a semester without being aware of […] April 10, 2024 10 Apr Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez Posted in Opportunities No comments Four Ways to Enhance the Accessibility of Your CI Docs This is the sixth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. For my second post of the series, I have explicitly focused on one powerful extension within CI Docs and four ways it enhances accessibility and inclusion. As much as I hope you are already aware and using Grackle Docs, I will present […] April 2, 2024 02 Apr Megan Eberhardt-Alstot Posted in Opportunities No comments Small Teaching: Transparent Assignment Design This is the fifth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. I had the chance to visit my undergraduate university campus this past weekend. It was so beautiful, and the vibrant student life lifted my spirits. But twenty-four years ago, as a first-generation undergraduate, my anxiety over the unknown kept me from soaking […] March 26, 2024 26 Mar Georgia Van Tyne Posted in Opportunities One comment Quick Strategies to Digitally Pulse Check Your Students This is the fourth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. Planning an online asynchronous course is no easy task– it requires thoughtful preparation, a generous chunk of time, and the bandwidth to learn new digital tools. But the course planning doesn’t end when the semester begins. As students progress through the course, […] March 7, 2024 07 Mar Megan Eberhardt-Alstot Posted in Opportunities No comments A QuARRy of Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) What is a Quarry? Typically, this refers to an open-pit mine from which rocks, sand, stone, or minerals are excavated because of their utility as building materials. Some materials are highly valued since they serve a purpose while also having aesthetic appeal. Marble supports some of the world’s most impressive structures, including the Taj Mahal, […] March 12, 2024 12 Mar Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez Posted in Opportunities No comments 5 Ways to Improve the Accessibility of Your CI Learn Courses This is the third post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. Before I begin, I want to acknowledge that accessibility is complex, with many guidelines and requirements, and I would never expect you to know everything. As with many other areas, accessibility can be nuanced, and there rarely, if ever, is […] March 5, 2024 05 Mar Lorna Gonzalez Posted in Opportunities No comments Six Canvas Commons Finds (Send to your Sandbox, Now!) This is the second post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. Canvas Commons is a hub where Canvas users have shared access to courses, content, activities, and pages that can be imported into other Canvas courses to use and adapt. While the quality of available content is variable, there are some […] February 27, 2024 27 Feb Michael McGarry Posted in Opportunities No comments Creating a Course Brand Kit with Adobe Express This is the first post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. *Disclaimer: This is NOT an advertisement for Adobe Express. I find this particular suite of tools to be a really approachable way to create some graphics that will give an online course a visual boost. Adobe Express is available to […] Posts navigation Older posts Search for: Recent Posts Teaching with a Character! Small Teaching: Transparent Content Three Digital Strategies to Orient Students to Your Course Four Ways to Enhance the Accessibility of Your CI Docs Small Teaching: Transparent Assignment Design Subscribe to Blog via Email Email Address Subscribe Featured Faculty Bloggers Mary Adler Megan Alstot Stacey Anderson Maria Ballesteros-Sola Heather Castillo Talya Drescher Lorna Gonzalez Jaime Hannans Jacob Jenkins Rachael Jordan Sean Q. 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