The Cowbell
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Digital Accessibility Tip: Creating Functional and Meaningful Links
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll discuss how to detect and remediate broken links and how to…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Debate on High Capacity Wells
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Rebecca Abler, Manitowoc Campus, Natural and Applied Sciences Department About the Professor Rebecca Abler is a Wisconsin native with a degree in Biology from UW-Oshkosh. She graduated with a PhD in 2004 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UW- Madison. She became a faculty member in 2005 in Manitowoc and is now a…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – PostSecret Writing Project
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Jonas Gardsby, Green Bay Campus, English Department and Writing & Applied Arts About the Professor Jonas Gardsby is in his third year as an Assistant Professor at UWGB. Previously, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English at the University of Colorado. He earned his PhD in early modern literature at…
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“The Great Re-Wiring of Childhood” Goes to College: A Reflection on Jonathan Haidt’s THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
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Article by Tara DaPra, Teaching Professor & 2024-25 Instructional Development Consultant Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, was supposed to be about how the rise of smartphones and social media were damaging democratic society. But when he wrote the chapter on…
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Regular and Substantive Interaction: Why It Matters
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What is Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)? Regular and substantive interaction or RSI is a requirement from the U.S. Department of Education designed to distinguish genuine distance education programs from more passive experiences, such as correspondence courses. The Department of Education describes RSI in its legal definition of “distance education,” but this explanation from Ohio…