Hispanic Heritage Month w/Jenni Balcom
10/11/22 • 45 min
In this episode, Marcus chats with Jenni Balcom, a fifth year teacher at Episcopal Collegiate School, an independent school in Little Rock, Arkansas. She teaches 6th to 10th grade students Spanish, and co-sponsors a Middle School Language Club. We discuss some ways in which Canvas LMS truly enhances her classes and specifically, the history and culture elements of her curriculum. Some of the most memorable moments of learning a new language, are in learning about Spanish speaking countries around the World, their history, their culture, their music, and more!
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In this episode, Marcus chats with Jenni Balcom, a fifth year teacher at Episcopal Collegiate School, an independent school in Little Rock, Arkansas. She teaches 6th to 10th grade students Spanish, and co-sponsors a Middle School Language Club. We discuss some ways in which Canvas LMS truly enhances her classes and specifically, the history and culture elements of her curriculum. Some of the most memorable moments of learning a new language, are in learning about Spanish speaking countries around the World, their history, their culture, their music, and more!
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California Dreamin' w/Aaron Ferguson and Sasa Stojic (Accessibility, Starter Courses, & Credit Recovery)
In this episode, Marcus talks to Aaron Ferguson the Coordinator of Distance Learning and Canvas administrator of Oxnard Online, and Saša Stojić, a dedicated Instructional Designer at Instructure. These two, and many others at Oxnard Union High School District, have teamed up to create and build some truly impactful new approaches to content restructuring, accessibility best practices, course building, and credit recovery!
7 Pillars of Accessibility:
- Current reach of the course: ThingLink Image
- One Sheet: 7 Pillars of Accessibility
- Canvas Community ID Blog: Accessibility in Online Course Design
- Screen Reader Demo Video
- #7PillarsA11y
- Sign-up to join the course:
- Join Code: L3DJF7
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The challenge was fierce, but the conversation and ideas were better! What a great episode!
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