Looking for a new assignment idea that empowers your students to contribute to public scholarship while honing their research and writing skills? Join us to learn about leveraging open pedagogical practices through Wikipedia editing assignments. Professor Ariella Rotramel will share their scaffolding strategies and past experience using the support services offered through the Wiki Education…
Category: Literacies
Hypothesis Workshop Wednesday
Our first workshop will take place on Wednesday both in-person and online. We will be demonstrating and using Hypothesis, a tool to make reading active, visible, and social within Moodle. Hypothesis brings discussion directly to your assigned readings by enabling students to add comments and start conversations in the margins. In this workshop, we will discuss…
Memes: What they are & how to use them (responsibly)
Delia McCarthy was our library intern this semester. Thank you, Delia! Are you interested in learning more about memes and using them in your teaching? This blog post will explain the ins and outs of creating and utilizing memes in academic life based on a workshop I gave as part of my internship. You can…
Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation Tool
Hypothesis is a free online tool designed to allow for collaborative annotation across the web. It can be used to annotate web pages and pdfs publicly, privately, or within a group. We enabled the Hypothesis plugin in Moodle so it works within your courses. With Moodle integration, students don’t have to create an account with Hypothesis…
We Have Data! Workshop Recap
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…
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…
Collaborative Reading Online: Workshop Monday!
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…
Teaching with Wikipedia, the Fall 2017 Edition
This fall I am again working with Wikipedia in my Feminist Theory course (check out: Why You And Your Students Should Work To Improve Wikipedia, Feminist Praxis and Wikipedia in the Classroom, and Adding Voices to Scholarship: Wikipedia Editing). It’s the second time that I’m mixing the Wiki Education Foundation’s online dashboard with our Linda Lear Center’s…
Exciting Workshops Just Ahead! Wikipedia, Scalar, Tableau and More…
We are very excited for our next Teaching with Technology workshops and hope you can join us! We promise you will leave these workshops inspired and excited to try new tools in the classroom and in your own research. Also, don’t forget we are hosting the Data Fair this week in Shain Library! Wikipedia Assignments for Developing…
Using Twitter to Sharpen Literacies and Engage in Global Conversations
In my previous blog post, I talked about videoconferences as a way to integrate global perspectives into my refugees course. Another tool to encourage students to apply their knowledge by engaging in a global dialogue was the use of Twitter. Students were asked to tweet five times a week, using the hash tag #GER262. During…
