Thank you to Andrew Lopez and Kathy Gehring for offering a useful, informative, and fun workshop. If you missed the workshop, or if you are just curious about what data is available to you and to your students for research and class projects, read on! And for any questions about finding and using data, contact…
Category: Library Resources
We Have Data!
The library provides access to a surprising amount of data that can be used to teach quantitative reasoning. Join us this Thursday to explore some of the many data resources available to you and to your students and to develop exercises using Census data, social data, voting data and more. In this workshop, we will…
Announcing Spring 2020 Workshop Schedule
Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our spring 2020 Technologies for Teaching and Research workshop schedule. We are covering a wide range of topics, many of which came directly from faculty. Also included in this list are the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which includes several presentations by Connecticut College faculty and staff, and…
Library Guides for Students (and for you!)
Over the summer librarians review, update, and create new library guides to assist students as they navigate research projects. While many students visit the reference desk or schedule library research consultations when confronted with a research project or specific information need, not all students take advantage of these face-to-face opportunities and some prefer to figure…
New Interdisciplinary Image Content in ARTstor’s Digital Library
Connecticut College Libraries’ subscription to the ARTstor Digital Library provides the campus community with access to over two million downloadable images. Created to meet the image needs of art and art history departments, ARTstor has radically expanded its interdisciplinary content in recent years. Subject guides point users to content in more than 22 disciplines, including…
Building a bibliographic portfolio with RefWorks
Co-authored by James Gelarden, Access Services Librarian Building a bibliographic portfolio is a way for students and researchers to work smarter rather than harder. RefWorks is a tool that allows users to create bibliographies, organize references around a theme, and collaborate and share their bibliographic research. In October, we held a workshop for ANT 201…
Wrapping up Open Access Week
We had a great time creating our tweet-stream about Open Access for International Open Access Week last week! If you didn’t follow us, click on the Storify above to read all our Tweets – I promise you won’t be disappointed! Bonus points if you find yourself mentioned! I’d like to leave you with what I…
Data Fair September 26-29!
Connecticut College is a member of ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research), a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. We have written about this amazing resource on the blog,…
Beyond Pencil and Paper: Audio Assignments Via Moodle
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…
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…
