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…
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Using Hypothesis just got a little easier!
Hypothesis is the social reading/collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Read more here about ways that you can use Hypothesis for class assignments. Until recently, only publicly available websites or PDF files stored in your Google Drive were able to be used with Hypothesis. Thanks to a…
International Open Access Week: New Guidelines for Federal Grants
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2022! To promote Open Access at Connecticut College, we are publishing one new post a day this week. The Open Access movement continues to grow. (Wait, back up! What is open access?) In addition to increased visibility and access, openness promotes research integrity, allows for wider and interdisciplinary collaboration,…
Moodle Upgrade!
Information Services has upgraded Moodle to a newer version (3.11 for those who are keeping track). While you’ll find that most things look the same, there are a few changes that we think are worth noting. We have added a couple of new course formats to choose from, to change the visual appearance of your…
New Public Database Makes our Campus Art Collections Available for Broader Use
The Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center recently published the Campus Art Collections on a platform from LUNA Imaging, making these collections available in a beautiful and user-friendly format. The database will bring together all the different art collections at the College, some of which are part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections &…
2022 Tool Update Series
As we enter another semester that calls for flexibility in the classroom, the Instructional Technology team continues to support and promote a number of digital tools that increase student engagement in different learning modalities. These tools are always updating and changing access to their features, and so we will be posting a series of tool…
Public Domain 2022: 400,000 audio recordings, Winnie-the-Pooh, and much more!
On January 1, 2022 hundreds of thousands published works entered the public domain. When works enter the public domain they are free for anyone to discover, download, share, and remix without copyright restrictions or limitations. This year’s Public Domain Day is especially notable because it includes over 400,000 sound recordings created before 1923. This long…
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
Ariella Rotramel Named Digital Scholarship Fellow
The DSCC is pleased to announced that Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Ariella Rotramel is joining the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program to work on two projects related to sex work. As part of their research on casino cocktail waitressing in Atlantic City, Ariella will conduct an oral history project that…
Hypothesis Workshops
Interested in learning more about social annotation and Hypothesis? Learn to use this online tool designed to allow for online collaborative annotation in their upcoming workshops. Let us know if you register and we will join you! Implementing social annotation with Hypothesis in your courses This workshop will focus on creating a supportive and scaffolded…