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…
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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,…
Sharing stories, building community
Last Friday and Saturday Southern Connecticut State University held its 22nd Women’s Studies Conference, and a delegation from Connecticut College was there to represent! The conference theme – #FeministIn(ter)ventions: Women, Community, Technology – provided a perfect opportunity to share some of the technology-rich courses and projects that have been undertaken at the College, and to…
The Dilley Room Is Back!
Over the January break we installed a new, state-of-the-art videoconferencing system in the Dilley Room, located on the third floor of Shain Library. The room’s Cisco SX80 videoconferencing system enables connection to other locations with similar or compatible systems. Faculty can share high quality video, audio and course content with students at the other sites,…
The Return of the “Digital Natives” – r u ready? ;)
The relative quiet of summer gives faculty time to think deeply and ambitiously about course structure and assignments. Whether you’re developing a new course or tweaking a familiar one, the syllabus likely includes technology-dependent activities – maybe the familiar Moodle discussion board or a novel hashtag project. As you put on the finishing touches and…
We’re Back!
Actually, we’ve been here all summer long but we’re back posting on the blog. Here’s a preview of exciting things to come this semester. Stay tuned for more detailed blog posts over the coming weeks! Some changes to Moodle Expanded, updated and instructionally robust online library research subject guides Connecticut College’s first ever online library…
Blogging Vacation!
We are taking the month of July off! While we will still be in the office, our time will be focused on projects and planning for the upcoming academic year. We had a great year, thank you for keeping up with us. Since we started the blog in July 2013, we’ve published 129 posts in…
Shain Reopening Events for Faculty
If we have been quiet on the blog it can be attributed to the busy, final preparations to reopen Shain Library a full five months early! We are very excited to welcome everyone back into the building (it is lonely in here!) and share all the new and exciting changes. After break we will offer…
Technology Fellows Deadline Approaching – Don’t Miss it!
The Tech Fellows program has created a space for engaging in stimulating conversations, risking new ideas, and thinking differently about my pedagogical goals. I’m grateful for the extra time and support for researching instructional technologies, absorbing and dialoguing with others about these possibilities, and implementing new ideas. – Karen Gonzalez Rice, 2014-15 Technology Fellow …
Represent Connecticut College in the Horizon Report
Yesterday the New Media Consortium (NMC) with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) released the Horizon Report 2015 Higher Education Preview. If you’re not familiar with the annual Horizon Report, it examines emerging technologies that will have an impact on teaching and learning and is relied upon by campus leaders and practitioners to plan and make decisions….
