Tip of the Week
Each week, ODEL provides interesting and helpful posts on educational technology and online education.
Spring 2025 Lamakū Training and Support
Week of 01/27/2025
During upcoming months, Lamakū trainings will focus on helping UH West Oʻahu and UH Mānoa faculty (Cohort 2) learn the ropes of course building in D2L Brightspace. The Spring 2025 Discovery Series features instructional designers demonstrating the use of ...
Introducing the Brightspace Editor
Week of 01/20/2025
Lamakū’s Brightspace Editor is found in course tools such as announcements, assignments, discussions and content pages. The editor has familiar text formatting capabilities for enhanced readability and accessibility. Beyond written content, you can bring in ...
Week of 01/13/2025
Feeling a January chill in your Zoom room? A structured icebreaker can help students get to know one another and you. Setting aside time for self-introductions and human connections is a good part of bringing students PEACE: Preparation, Expertise, Authenticity, ...
Enjoy bumper-to-bumper audiobooks
Week of 01/06/2025
Our island commutes can be slow-moving misery. To alleviate the pain, check out audio books. Start with a Hawaiʻi State Public Library card. Download the free Libby app to your cell phone and connect to our local library system with your card number. Need a dose of ...
Week of 12/16/2024
Last month in an opinion piece for Honolulu Civil Beat, Neal Milner, a former political science professor at UH Mānoa, wrote, “My point here is not to predict but to energize, to keep you from being crippled by your fears. To not be users, but rather doers.” In ...
Week of 12/09/2024
Google has added new building blocks to Docs, making it easier than ever to produce neatly formatted work products. Open a new Google Doc to reveal a click-bubble menu of popular templates including meeting notes and email drafts. These appear across the top of a ...
Find Lamakū resources on ODEL site
Week of 12/02/2024
ODEL is compiling relevant resources for transitioning to the Lamakū learning management system. These can be found on the ODEL micrositeʻs Faculty and Staff Resources page, under Lamakū. Please navigate to the website for linked resource materials and request ...
Week of 11/25/2024
Learning Lamakū will empower you to design course content effectively, and this undertaking will benefit students. Mahalo for your fledgling efforts to develop your skills and, eventually, your online courses. The UH Online Innovation Center (UHOIC) now offers ...
Week of 11/18/2024
In the months ahead, as you build your courses in Lamakū take the plain text approach to adding content to the Brightspace editor. Plain text is free of special formatting (italics, colors) found in a source document or presentation. By pasting content as plain ...
Week of 11/11/2024
UH-licensed Zoom accounts have an artificial intelligence tool, AI Companion, that can answer questions and summarize meeting information. During Zoom meetings, participants can direct questions to AI Companion and get answers based on the conversation transcript. ...