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FERPA & Social Media: Protecting Student Records

Online Educators December 8, 2020December 1, 2020 Valentine S. King

When I first began teaching online, I considered using a social media hashtag for class activities and related content. To make it a simple and cohesive conversation, I thought to use the course prefix and number, i.e. #THE4400. When discussing with a colleague, it was suggested this could potentially violate FERPA. Unsure about this, I […]

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Ultimate Guide to Connect Confidently with Social Media

Online Educators August 3, 2017June 30, 2021 Valentine S. King 3 Comments

Social media is one of many tools that faculty can use to enhance instruction and increase student engagement. By design, it is a collaborative area primed to promote active learning. Many students already “live” in these social media areas. They are familiar with the general technology and are comfortable with the style of communication exchange. […]

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TidyUp: Your New Canvas Best Friend

We’ve all been there: we’ve been teaching the same course for a while, completing course copy after course copy, and making changes every semester to continuously improve the student experience. Then one day, we go to the Files section of our Canvas course and see an overwhelming number of files. To make matters worse, we […]

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Hello, ChatGPT.

Okay, let’s talk Who or what are you?  ChatGPT is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. Using deep learning techniques, it is able to generate human-like text, making it a powerful tool for natural language processing tasks such as language translation, text summarization, and conversation simulation. With its ability to understand and respond to […]

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