As the semester sprints feverishly towards its end, we in Instructional Technology wanted to take a moment to reflect back upon our overall experience with our colleagues in the Critical Instructional Design Reading Group. We walked away with new knowledge and potential strategies for teaching and learning in the fall, and we are excited to…
Category: Instructional Design
Critical Instructional Design Reading Group Halftime Report
By Group Co-Facilitators Kate Bengtson and Karen Pezzetti The Critical Instructional Design Reading Group that we announced back in February has met twice, marking the halfway point for this project which was funded by a grant from the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE). This milestone seems an opportune moment to…
Remote Teaching: Tools and Support for Conn College Faculty
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…
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…
Open Pedagogy & Pressbooks
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…
2022 Tool Updates – Kahoot!
Kahoot! has served as a popular gamification tool that makes assessments interactive, competitive, and fun. This tool allows instructors to create quiz games that can be played during a synchronous class to increase student engagement or completed asynchronously by individual students to check comprehension. Unfortunately, this tool update will highlight the new limitations that Kahoot…
2022 Tool Updates – Screencastify
In this era of virtual meetings, endless emails, and digital teaching and learning, it’s often just easier to show something on your computer screen than to try to type out an explanation. In these cases, a basic screen recorder is an invaluable asset, and Screencastify is one of the best. This free Google Chrome extension…
Tools & Strategies for Engaging Remote Students in Your Physical Class (A Webinar Recording)
If you didn’t catch one of our synchronous workshops on including remote students in your physical class, we’ve got you covered! You can find a recording of the webinar below. During this session, we discussed: Definitions and principles for teaching remote and in-person students Concrete strategies for creating more equitable learning spaces for these types…
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…
Join Us in the Virtual International Exchange Leadership Institute
Are you interested in investigating how Connecticut College could continue to harness the power of technology to expand virtual global learning opportunities for students in the post-pandemic era? If so, please consider joining Amy Dooling and me as a third team member at the upcoming 2021 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Virtual Exchange Leadership Institute!…
