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Trying to balance the ed with the tech

December 23, 2010
by Clint
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Is Desire2Learn search really this ineffective?

I was reading Jacob Nielson’s new research on how College students use the web and this little tidbit popped out at me. Students are strongly search dominant and turn to search at the smallest provocation in terms of difficult navigation. … Continue reading

March 3, 2009
by Clint
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Personalize D2L content using variables

Online Course Peer Review at Lake Superior College just posted a nice D2L tip on how to personalize content in a D2L course. By inserting {firstname} into any HTML spot in your courses (news, content, release conditions, etc), D2L automatically places … Continue reading

November 17, 2008
by Clint
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Embed a YouTube video in Desire2Learn

Well, I put this video together and demonstrated this technique at a video workshop for our faculty last week, only to have it fail miserably in Internet Explorer 7. Of course. Go figure. I have embedded dozens of YouTube videos … Continue reading