Ryan Runager
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Interested in Becoming a Tech Producer?
Job Description The role of a tech producer is to be the facilitator of the online classroom on behalf of the faculty member. Under the supervision of the Instruction Content Developer in the Office of Digital Learning, Tech Producers will assist in a range of technical and pedagogical tasks including Zoom support for teaching faculty and …
4 Creative Uses for Polling in the Classroom
If the pandemic has shown us anything about education, it is that learning can often become a passive experience. This is true for both face-to-face and online instruction. Students will get into a “TV watching” mode and not actively engage in discussion. Now, this is not intentional and it is not something to assign blame. …
Everyone Did the Reading: Collaborative Annotation in the Classroom
Often when students are assigned a reading, they gloss. They will see a name, a term, a concept… and skip it. Not because they aren’t engaged. Not because they don’t want to learn. But because it is one of seven articles to have read by the end of the week. Put simply, collaborative annotation is …
Better Digital Whiteboards for Classroom Collaboration
In March of 2020, the world of higher education shifted from teaching classes on campus to Emergency Remote Teaching — How do we take exactly what we do in the classroom and teach effectively online? Online education has often been looked down upon because of the assumption that it does not generate the same interactive …
Contemporary Cultural Item with Jesus and John Wayne
Associate Professor of American Religious History, Alison Greene, teaches a course called “History of Christianity in America.” In her course, she assigns a cultural analysis project through the lens of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristen Kobes Du Mez. In this text, Du Mez provides …
Practical Papers for Practical Theology
In her course, “Introduction to Practical Theology,” Susan Reynolds invites her students to explore what it means to “do theology in context.” She says, “As they negotiate the fluid, shifting boundary between theology and practice, they encounter a wide and interdisciplinary variety of texts.” In place of the weekly “one-pager” response or reflection of the …
Workshopping Inclusion: Canvas and Accessibility
TRANSCRIPTION: SARAH: Welcome, friends, thank you for being a part of our faculty workshop series. This workshop is dedicated to the idea of Canvas accessibility, but we’ll also talk a lot about the concept of accessibility and where we think it might come into play in your pedagogy. RYAN: So we have three major takeaways …
Skill Building for Social Change
Are you interested in political organizing? How do your studies at Candler prepare you for a life of activism and public engagement? These are main objectives of Kyle Lambelet’s “Political Theology and Community Organizing” course: to develop a working theological vocabulary in the realms of political and justice organizing and to utilize this language as …
Called by Name: Using NameCoach in the Classroom
Why should you use NameCoach? Because, names matter. They mean something. They hold our identity and are how we are addressed by the world – or at least we strive to think so. Here, at Candler School of Theology, we believe in the importance and beauty of our names. This is why we have integrated …
How to Download Respondus Lockdown Browser
Before the exam Prepare your computer before the exam: Reminder: Respondus Lockdown Browser does not work on Chromebooks Test with the sample quiz in your site If you are installing the Respondus Lockdown Browser for the first time, download it for Mac orWindows. For a step-by-step guide of how to download: How to Download Respondus …