Are your students reading course materials on laptops or other devices? Online annotation tools can support students’ close reading of texts in an online environment. These same tools can be used to support collaborative reading where students add annotations, questions, and discussion directly on the texts themselves! Intentional use of social annotation tools make texts…
Category: Ebooks
Welcome to the public domain, 1923!
On January 1, 2019, thousands of creative works published in 1923 were released into the public domain. This is the first time in 20 years that new material entered the public domain, including literary works, periodicals, dramatic works, movies, musical works, artistic works, and choreography. Now, every year on January 1st, a new batch of…
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…
Language Learning with Japanese “Tadoku”
Last semester my JPN 201 students learned how to communicate with Japanese college/university students in Japanese through the #CCJpn201 Twitter Project. I wish I could continue this project. However, the academic year in Japan will end in March. Furthermore, since months of February and March have no classes for students, it would be difficult for…
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…
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,…
How Much Are Your Textbooks? Could They Be Free?
Technology can help people do amazing things. OpenStax College is one of those amazing things. Haven’t heard of it? OpenStax is a nonprofit organization founded at Rice University and supported by some big foundations (ex. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), that creates peer reviewed, high quality introductory…
How to use that ebook!
Today, Connecticut College students, faculty and staff have access to over 250,000 ebooks. How do you find these ebooks? How do you use them? Can you print or download a book you find? These are some of the many questions we are asked every day. To answer your questions, we created an online guide, Ebooks…
Found an ebook?
This video will show you how to use an EBSCO ebook.
