There are many ways to provide content and continue engaging with your students even if you are not meeting in a classroom. See below for a few of our favorites: Record mini-lectures or a full lecture. This can be so easy and done on the fly! Technologies we recommend are Kaltura Capture, PowerPoint (Insert Audio or Record Presentation), QuickTime audio/screen…
Category: Flipped and Blended Learning
Sign Up Today for Our Critical Instructional Design Reading Group!
The Instructional Technology Team is excited to announce the formation of a Reading Group focused on Compassionate and Critical Learning Design! This group will convene four times in the Spring 2023 semester to discuss essays from two anthologies compiled by Hybrid Pedagogy, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing critical digital pedagogy. Faculty and staff from…
2022 Tool Updates – Flipgrid
During the long days of remote teaching and learning, many students and faculty relied on technology to introduce themselves and get to know one another. One of the most effective tools for meeting this goal was Flipgrid, a video-based discussion thread. Instructors successfully utilized Flipgrid as a means to facilitate deeper discussion and provide elevated…
2022 Tool Updates – Socrative
If you’ve attended a virtual meeting or event over the last two years (and, really, who hasn’t at this point?), you’ve almost certainly been subjected to any number of different digital, interactive polling tools. One of the most efficient and least onerous ways to increase engagement in a virtual event is by throwing a poll…
New Workshop Today: Tools & Strategies for Including Remote Students in your Physical Class
Are you grappling with the best methods for engaging your students who are in isolation or quarantine but well enough to participate in class? We have developed this workshop to share a wide variety of techniques and concrete strategies for including all students in class remotely and in-person, synchronously and asynchronously. We highly recommend this…
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…
Tools for Advising S/U Decisions
As this irregular and unprecedented semester comes to a close, students will be making important decisions about the culmination of their classes and whether or not they will take a final grade or declare Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. In order to make that decision, students need a sense of where they stand in your class. Read on for…
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…
