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This is a project from Summer 2016. For my current Canvas ruminations, see Teaching with Canvas: confessions of an LMS minimalist.

I created this Canvas course to share growth mindset resources and also to provide examples of live web content that bring the dynamic power of the Internet into your Canvas pages. This is a public course, so these pages are accessible to everyone: no log-in required. :-)

Tinkering with this course is one of my summer projects, and your suggestions are very welcome! Please contact me with your ideas or questions at laura-gibbs@ou.edu or at Twitter; I'm @OnlineCrsLady.

Below is a list of some of the tools I am experimenting with, and I am using growth mindset materials to illustrate the use of each tool. So, hopefully these pages can be useful to you if you are interested in learning more about growth mindset OR if you are interested in dynamic content in Canvas... OR both!

DIIGO. Because Diigo has good support for RSS, you can use an RSS tool like Inoreader to display live Diigo content in Canvas. As you bookmark new items with Diigo, they appear here in Canvas automatically.

FLICKR. The Flickr slideshow updates automatically whenever you add new images and/or rearrange the album.

JAVASCRIPT. These pages show how you to create and display random and calendar-based javascripts in Canvas. Canvas doesn't accept javascript directly, but there's an easy workaround you can use if you have access to https webspace (as all OU faculty do now, thanks to OU Create). You can see the Mindset Cat Calendar to the right here.

PINTEREST. You can also use an https solution to display Pinterest widgets here in Canvas. As you add new pins, the widget updates automatically.

RSS. You can use Inoreader to take RSS and display it as regular web content (HTML) here in a Canvas page. As new items appear in the RSS feed, you can see them rendered here in the Canvas page.

STORIFY. You can embed Storify presentations in story form, as slideshows, or using the grid display. If you add new items to the Storify, they appear here in Canvas automatically.

TWITTER. If you use real Twitter widgets (as opposed to the Canvas Twitter App), you can bring all the power of Twitter (images, videos, lists, etc.) here into Canvas. As new items appear in the Twitter feed, they show up here too!

YOUTUBE. You can embed YouTube Playlists in Canvas, and the playlist will update automatically as you add and/or rearrange the videos.

And more. For more types of live content you can integrate with Canvas, see the Course Pages Index.

My Growth Mindset Twitter stream:

Growth Mindset videos at YouTube:

Learning about Growth Mindset at Storify:

Mindset Cat Calendar