The Curricular Technology team will hold virtual office hours throughout February. Visit our appointment calendar and select the time you wish to “stop by.” Include any specific technologies or problems in the description so that we can prepare for our meeting. Our team continues to be available for individual appointments to answer questions, troubleshoot, select…
Author: Jessica McCullough
Connecticut OER Grants Available
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the Open Educational Resources water? Curious to know what’s out there in your discipline and want to be compensated for reviewing OER material? Or maybe you recently decided to use OER in an upcoming course. The Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council announced the second round of…
New Zoom Feature: Co-host and Breakout Rooms
As of last week, Zoom introduced a new feature we know some of you will be very excited about. Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host! This means that any named co-host in a Zoom Meeting can start Breakout Rooms, assign attendees to them, and visit them. Note that hosts…
Seeking Workshop Topics!
We want to hear from you as we plan out the workshop schedule for the extended winter break! What topics would you like us to include? What tools do you want to learn to use? What challenges are you facing in your classes that technology can help mitigate? Complete our form and let us know!…
Trimming Your Kaltura Videos
Did you know you can trim the beginning or end from a video in Kaltura? You can also remove a section within the video (chop and splice). This proves especially useful if you use Zoom’s “Record to Cloud” option to record class meetings and share the recordings with students in Moodle. Perhaps you want to…
Technology Tools for Remote Teaching & Learning
The time/space matrix shown above can help organize the tools we support and that might be useful to you as you plan to teach in different modalities. We are creating a calendar of workshops this summer that focus on tools in the lower quadrants of the model: remote/synchronous and remote/asynchronous. Whatever you’re interested in learning…
Summer Instructional Technology Workshops
In an effort to support faculty preparing to teach this fall – whatever it brings – we will be offering workshops throughout the summer. All workshops will be online, so you can join from anywhere you like! We brainstormed topics, particularly more interesting tools to support student learning and engagement than we were able to…
Introducing Kaltura MediaSpace
Connecticut College has been using Kaltura as its video-hosting solution for Moodle since 2013. Our Kaltura subscription was upgraded last summer and we now have a MediaSpace website that can host videos outside of Moodle. This Connecticut College branded site has no advertisements and allows for greater control of sharing content. MediaSpace Uses at Connecticut…
Move to Online Teaching & Learning
We took a break from writing on the blog during the transition from in-person to online teaching and learning. Not all faculty receive our posts, and we what we had to share was important enough to send to all faculty. We were also very busy! We created and updated documentation while developing an online guide…
This Is Big: Smithsonian Makes Millions of Digital Items Available with CC0 License
Almost 3 million digital items – images, video, data, 3D items – from the Smithsonian’s collections are now available with a CC0 license. This license allows anyone to use, remix, transform, and share these assets without asking permission from the Smithsonian. According to the FAQ, the Smithsonian will release over 3 million items throughout 2020,…