My choir students expressed that they wanted to be assessed more often so that they would be more motivated to practice. At that time, I was having students sign up in small groups for “check in” meetings. While this was valuable, it was difficult to give individual feedback to all 40 students and could not…
Category: Devices
How to Make the Most of iOS: Speak Screen & Selection
Recently the Instructional Technology team hired a student assistant, Kristen Szuman. Kristen is a sophomore interested in art, politics, and loves animals. We asked Kristen to use and document the many accessibility features available on iOS devices. This is her first, of, we hope, several, blog post about useful technology tools. Accessibility seldom gets the…
“Eye Want Change”: Video for learning, immersion and transformation
Recently faculty have been clamoring to effectively incorporate video and other multimedia assignments into their courses. This, in addition to the huge number of classes that require video for content delivery, has made video a hot topic on campus. Ariella Rotramel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, sent me this NPR story about…
Facing the Digital Divide
I was recently surprised when watching television at home I saw a commercial that uses the idea of “digital divide” as a means to attract new costumers. As I recall, a student, clearly from an underprivileged environment, walks back home talking about the concept of “digital divide”. He mentions that hiring a particular company will…
DELI for Lunch – Reading Day Event Next Week!
Did you know that over 39 faculty and 1,900 students in 181 courses have participated in Instructional Technology’s Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI)? The DELI program provides digital devices to all students enrolled in an academic course when the devices will be used to enhance learning outcomes and/or increase student engagement. Our reading day Teaching…
Research on the Go: Conn College Libraries App
The Connecticut College Libraries App is now available! Download and install the free app on your Apple, Android, Windows, or Amazon device. The app is designed to connect you to research services and resources at any time from anywhere. Use the app to quickly find library hours, find the date and register for the next Teaching…
DELI Proposals Due July 1
The Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI) is a program to provide classes with technologies intuitive to students to enhance the students’ learning. Students in participating classes have been provided with such technologies as iPods, iPads, digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital camcorders. Proposals are due July 1 for fall 2014 courses. If you wish…
Going Paperless IV: Scanning
In this series we’ve covered tools to maintain your digital files, Moodle for online assignment submission, and PDF mark-up tools. Now we’re turning our attention to digitizing your old files. Each of the following tools can help. Canon Multi-Function Devices (MFD) located around campus allow you to scan one item at a time, or multiple…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Teaching with iPads
Last Friday we met to discuss and show ways to use an iPad in the classroom. We focused on apps that help display content, integrate media, and create interactive learning activities. Here is a summary of the uses we discussed and the recommended apps we showed. Projecting with your iPad Adapters: piece of hardware that…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps
We had a great Teaching with Technology workshop yesterday, “You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps.” Thanks to all who attended! If you were unable to attend but are interested in what we discussed, you can find the list of topics below. The workshop was divided into three areas: ebooks, mobile apps for research,…
