Hypothesis is the social reading/collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Register for the following summer workshops to learn how you can use Hypothesis for class assignments. If you are new to Hypothesis, please email Ariela McCaffrey for an overview of adding the activity to your Moodle site….
Author: Jessica McCullough
RS&CT at Camp Teach & Learn
Here is where you can find us at Camp Teach & Learn this week: Embedding the Writing Center & Library into Your FYSWednesday 24 May 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ePortfolios for Increased FYS & Pathway EngagementWednesday 24 May 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM Engaging & Teaching with AI ToolsThursday 25 May 2:45 PM to…
Textbook Costs and Student Equity
On Tuesday, April 18 Information Services hosted a lunch presentation, Textbook Costs and Student Equity. We were thrilled to have over 20 faculty and staff attend. The purpose of the lunch was threefold. First, we presented the results of the Fall 2022 student textbook survey in which we partnered with ten other liberal arts colleges…
Last Night’s Faculty Showcase
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources. We heard about scholarly and creative work that lie outside the traditional journal and monograph publishing venues, innovative pedagogies that empower students to create and openly share information, and how technology can foster equity among students. Digital Scholarship …
Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources
Three years in the planning! Join us for a demonstration of how digital technologies and open pedagogical practices can enhance teaching and research. Engage with faculty and their work, and gain inspiration for your own digital scholarship and open education projects. Presenters include: Chris Steiner, Anna Vallye, Andrea Lanoux, and members of the French and…
Engage Students with Wikipedia Editing Projects
Looking for a new assignment idea that empowers your students to contribute to public scholarship while honing their research and writing skills? Join us to learn about leveraging open pedagogical practices through Wikipedia editing assignments. Professor Ariella Rotramel will share their scaffolding strategies and past experience using the support services offered through the Wiki Education…
Remote Teaching: Tools and Support for Conn College Faculty
There are many ways to provide content and continue engaging with your students even if you are not meeting in a classroom. See below for a few of our favorites: Record mini-lectures or a full lecture. This can be so easy and done on the fly! Technologies we recommend are Kaltura Capture, PowerPoint (Insert Audio or Record Presentation), QuickTime audio/screen…
Just Added: Wikipedia Workshops
We’ve received a lot of interest in Wikipedia editing assignments. Wiki Edu, a non-profit organization, makes it easy for instructors to create and integrate Wikipedia assignments into classes. They are hosting free webinars for faculty. The first date offered is February 7 but additional dates are available; view additional dates by clicking on the registration…
Open Access Week Day 5: Promoting Open Access to Conn College Research
Connecticut College’s institutional repository, Digital Commons, currently holds over 9,000 pieces of student and faculty research, reports, and archival documents, which have been downloaded nearly 2,000,000 times (we will likely hit that number right around Thanksgiving). Included in those totals are hundreds of articles by faculty, which have been accessed by about 130,000 researchers in…
International Open Access Week: New Guidelines for Federal Grants
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2022! To promote Open Access at Connecticut College, we are publishing one new post a day this week. The Open Access movement continues to grow. (Wait, back up! What is open access?) In addition to increased visibility and access, openness promotes research integrity, allows for wider and interdisciplinary collaboration,…