We are excited to announce that Zoom has made closed captioning available to all licensed Connecticut College users! This means that you can enable machine-generated captions or live transcripts for your Zoom meetings and online classes, and your participants can choose to make those features visible on their individual views. We highly encourage all meeting…
Category: Accessibility
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…
Announcing the 2019 OER Exploration Grant Recipients
Information Services is excited to announce the eleven faculty who have received the Open Educational Resources (OER) Exploration Grant for 2019. The grant includes a monetary award as well as staff assistance to explore and investigate open resources that can be used in courses in lieu of traditional textbooks. The grant aims to reduce educational…
Open Educational Resources: OER Explorers and Informational Libguide
The headlines are frightening: “Student Debt Nears One Trillion Dollars,” “College Costs Out of Control,” and “Betrayed by the Dream Factory.” These are not Hollywood blockbusters, but articles written in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Slate.com about the skyrocketing cost of a college education. A steep increase in textbook prices is a major factor…
Why I Allow Technology in My Classroom
This January, the Center for Teaching & Learning teamed up with the Instructional Technology team here at Connecticut College to put on a Talking Teaching event called “Digital Devices in the Classroom.” I was fortunate to attend the event; I had admittedly been thinking a lot about devices in the classroom this semester. Traditionally, I…
Student View: Apps for Accessibility and Productivity (3 of 3)
This post was written by Kristen Szuman, Instructional Technology Student Assistant. The third of three posts exploring productivity apps, this post will explore IFTTT, a chain-based events service; Vault, a password keeper; and Forest, a sustainable take on the classic timer app. IFTTT (IFTTT Inc, $Free) What Is It? IF This Then That (IFTTT) is…
Student View: Apps for Accessibility and Productivity (2 of 3)
This post was written by Kristen Szuman, Instructional Technology Student Assistant. The second of three posts exploring productivity apps, this post will explore Bear, a note taking app; and Adobe Scan, a mobile PDF scanner. Bear (Shiny Frog, $Free) / Bear Pro (Shiny Frog, $1.49/month or $14.99/year) What Is It? Bear is a minimalist note…
Student View: Apps for Accessibility and Productivity (1 of 3)
This post is written by Kristen Szuman, Instructional Technology Student Assistant The first of three posts exploring productivity and accessibility apps, this series will focus on apps that have practical application in anyone’s life, but are especially helpful for students with difficulties focusing and learning. This first post focuses on Tide, a Pomodoro timer app,…
OER Roundtable Recap at #aha17
Over the break I participated in a roundtable, “Free for All: A Discussion of Open Educational Resources (OER) in U.S. and World History Survey Courses,” at the the American Historical Association conference in Denver, Colorado. Members of our roundtable included Sarah Randow from LeTourneau University (Chair), Christy Jo Snider from Berry College, Ann Marie Davis…
Swivl toward Lecture Recording
This semester Joe Schroeder is using a Swivl, a robotic mount that holds an iPad or smartphone, to record lectures in Behavioral Neuroscience. With the use of a remote that the presenter wears, the Swivl tracks a moving person and uses the camera on the iPad or smartphone to record. Lectures or presentation are stored…