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…
Category: Instructional Design
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…
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!…
Syllabus Inspiration
In addition to finding inspiration from our wonderful Connecticut College colleagues, there is a wealth of information online that you can draw from. If you’re looking for new ideas and inspiration for your courses, check the following sites. Contact an Instructional Technology team member to get help pulling it all together. Open Syllabus Explorer Explore…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
Don’t Forget: Tempel Summer Institute Proposals Due Friday!
Were you thinking about attending Tempel Summer Institute this summer? If so, don’t forget that proposals are due on Friday! What is Tempel Summer Institute? It is an annual, one-week immersion program for faculty started in 2000 by a generous gift from Jean C. Tempel ’65. The Institute provides a pedagogical approach to the integration…
How is your class going? Tools for mid-semester feedback
Join Diane Creede and me on Thursday for a new workshop, Tools for Mid-Semester Feedback. In this hour-long workshop, we will discuss the purpose and goals for collecting mid-semester feedback, demonstrate and teach several tools you can use, and help participants select the right tool too meet their goals. Details are below. We look forward to…
Using Google Drive for Peer Review
In ANT 320 Anthropology of Sexuality and Gender, students work in pairs to compose posters that address an issue on campus or in a workplace related to sexualty and/or gender. For example, one pair of students is writing about intimate partner violence and bystander intervention. Another pair is writing about the erasure of queer people…
