Camille Freeman

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How to Use FlipGrid in your Canvas course

What is Flipgrid?Flipgrid is a free video discussion tool that you can use in place of or in addition to traditional discussion boards. Instead of leaving written comments for each other, students post short video responses to the posted prompt and/or to each other. It sounds complicated. Good news. It’s incredibly easy to use. When you use […]

Iron Deficiency and Obesity in Menstruating Adolescents: A Webinar

I’m giving a free webinar on an obscure topic for no good reason . The topic? Iron deficiency and obesity in menstruating adolescents. I recently completed a project on this topic for my doctoral program, so I thought I might as well share what I learned with the small handful of other folks who might be interested. Want […]

Episode 13 | How to Stay on Top of Grading

Buried beneath a pile of assignments waiting for your feedback? You may find yourself distracting yourself by dusting your bookshelves or vacuuming the lint from your dryer vents*. In this podcast episode, I go over a straightforward way to anticipate how much time you have to spend on each assignment. Once you’ve figured this out, […]

Episode 12 | Ideas for “Getting to Know You” in Week 1

If you have an online course, you probably have some kind of “Getting to Know You” activity in week 1. If you’re feeling a little bit bored by yours, it may be time to spice it up – especially if the students are in a cohort program and you’re the only one who doesn’t already […]

Episode 11 | What To Do About Academic Integrity Violations

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Episode 10 | How to Handle Letter of Recommendation Requests

Image by DarkWorkX on PixabayI recently implemented a system for handling letter of recommendation requests, which I outline in this episode. It’s dramatically cut down the amount of time I spend on the administrative work associated with letter-writing. If you spend a few hours setting up a similar system, you’ll save yourself a lot of […]

Episode 9 | Mid-Term Survey Follow-Up and Learning New Things

Image by Pexels from PixabayIn today’s episode, I go over a question from Episode 6 | Should you Give a Mid-Term Survey about the logistics of how to distribute the survey. If it would be helpful, I can make a short screen-share video to go over how I do it. Just let me know using […]

Episode 8 | A Discussion about Online Discussion Boards

In today’s episode, I answer a question about how to best use discussion boards in online courses. As someone who’s taken quite a few online courses lately, I have strong feelings on this one :). This episode is slightly longer than usual to account for my small rant on the topic. The short version of […]

Episode 6 | Should you Give a Mid-Term Survey

Today’s podcast episode covers the question of whether you should administer a mid-term survey in your online course. As you can probably guess, I’m a big fan of the mid-term survey. I go over some of the reasons why in the episode. If you’re curious to see what my mid-term surveys look like, you’re welcome to […]

Episode 5 | Loving our Students

Image by Ben_Kerckx via PixabayMy apologies for the podcast silence over the past few weeks. I’ve been out of town! Here is an episode I had hoped to publish last week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, with a few thoughts on loving our students even when it’s not easy to do so. If you […]

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