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These are some of the tools Blackboard, a Learning Management System, has to offer to instructors and students. Blackboard was not the LMS my university used when I taught Spanish for undergraduate students. It was a different and rather intimidating … Continue reading →

An alternative to multiplying versions of a document and filing those versions is using Google Docs. I find this tool very appropriate to send feedback to students, because it allows people to have a conversation over a document. Adding comments … Continue reading →

This was my first attempt to use a survey program. I deliberately created a questionnaire with only one kind of questions. Here’s the survey: TIME MANAGEMENT Time management is often a concern among graduate students and instructors because they have … Continue reading →