Author Archives: Donna Marques

I don’t know about many of you, but I felt a bit overwhelmed with the reading.  It offered so many choices on different software and programs to use; but like anything else,  trial & error! Regarding images and copyright:  woo!  … Continue reading →

Hello colleagues! I am so excited to start our new semester, especially since I found out that I will be spearheading the new online program in World Languages at my college!  Exciting, but a little scary at the same time!  I … Continue reading →

Week 1:  I set up my blog and I am ready to start the course! I could tell it was still warm back then because I placed a picture of the beach as my blog banner : ). Week 2: … Continue reading →

I’m really glad we got the chance to read about this topic.  I have been to other workshops on copyrighting and I always thought that if the source was confined to my Blackboard site, I was following the law.  This … Continue reading →

Lisa’s Slidecast: I love the visual map that Lisa created to get you thinking about “why” you want to use a blog?  What is the end result you are looking for? Anotherwords, what is your pedagogical goal? Commenting: I think … Continue reading →

Diigo! This is a great tool for annotating webpages.  This would work great for me both personally and professionally.  I have pages and pages full of bookmarks and I constantly refer back to them and can’t remember why I bookmarked … Continue reading →

So I’m a couple of weeks behind…  I posted to Pilar’s voicethread on time though!  I am finding that I like voicethread more and more!  I like how you can click on someone’s video right from the topics page and … Continue reading →

I’m so excited to blog about this topic!!  I had never really thought about the implications of “not” having a community in my online course.  I figured, “Just show up, figure out what you need to do, and get it done … Continue reading →

Internet skills quiz score= 11/12 NICE!!!!!  🙂 Take a look at this fun Spanish video for intro students:

The interactive syllabus! Since I was lucky enough to actually attend Lisa’s online Eluminate session back in 2010, I have actually already used many of these ideas on my f2f syllabus which is listed on Bb.    This is the way … Continue reading →