Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and host your own original content, such as an open educational resource or a digital scholarship project. It can also be used as a teaching tool to engage students and create real-world assignments that can be shared with the public. In Professor Andy Lanoux’s FYS, students created…
Category: Collaborative Assignments
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…
Domains & Websites Workshops
Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
Hypothesis Workshop Wednesday
Our first workshop will take place on Wednesday both in-person and online. We will be demonstrating and using Hypothesis, a tool to make reading active, visible, and social within Moodle. Hypothesis brings discussion directly to your assigned readings by enabling students to add comments and start conversations in the margins. In this workshop, we will discuss…
Upcoming Event: Opening Up Knowledge: Wikipedia as a site of Collaboration and Learning
As part of Trinity College’s Art + Feminism CT virtual event, Ariella Rotramel will lead a workshop on Wikipedia editing this Thursday, March 25, from 1:00-2:00pm. The description and link registration is below – all are welcome! While some educators view citations from Wikipedia with suspicion, an increasing amount of faculty are incorporating Wikipedia editing…
Hypothesis Workshops
Interested in learning more about social annotation and Hypothesis? Learn to use this online tool designed to allow for online collaborative annotation in their upcoming workshops. Let us know if you register and we will join you! Implementing social annotation with Hypothesis in your courses This workshop will focus on creating a supportive and scaffolded…
Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation Tool
Hypothesis is a free online tool designed to allow for collaborative annotation across the web. It can be used to annotate web pages and pdfs publicly, privately, or within a group. We enabled the Hypothesis plugin in Moodle so it works within your courses. With Moodle integration, students don’t have to create an account with Hypothesis…
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 Google Course Kit
Students have long been taking advantage of the college’s access to Google Drive for completing course work. Assignments completed in Google Drive, however, could not be easily submitted as assignments…until now. Google has introduced a new plug-in for Moodle that streamlines the submission of student assignments completed using Google Drive. The plug-in allows students to…
