by Nancy Munce | Mar 28, 2023 | Learning Series
Adding Visual Appeal to Your Online Courses “There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” – Milton Glaser “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”...
by Nancy Munce | Dec 1, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Day 2 Session 2: Collaborative Learning Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. In this second day of workshops for Summer Institute 2022, participants had...
by Nancy Munce | Nov 8, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....
by Nancy Munce | Jun 15, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 1: Explicit Teaching Explicit Teaching is “Instruction that does not leave anything to chance and does not make assumptions about skills and knowledge that children will acquire on their own.” -Torgesen, 2004 In the kick-off...