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…
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Upping Your Zoom Game: Breakout Room Note Taking
We’re about halfway through the semester (and close to the start of Module 2!), so it’s the perfect time to try shaking up some strategies for your Zoom sessions! If breakout rooms have been a key part of your online class, collaborative note taking in Google Slides might be a good way to up your…
Test Drive Our New Overhead Book Scanner
Scan print publications quickly and easily with the library’s new 400dpi overhead book scanner. OCR the text to make it accessible for students. Export mp3 files that read the text aloud. The cropping feature enables you to select, crop and export images or text with the swipe of a finger. The new scanner should make…
Introducing Google Course Kit
Students have long been taking advantage of the college’s access to Google Drive for completing course work. Assignments completed in Google Drive, however, could not be easily submitted as assignments…until now. Google has introduced a new plug-in for Moodle that streamlines the submission of student assignments completed using Google Drive. The plug-in allows students to…
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…
Why I Allow Technology in My Classroom
This January, the Center for Teaching & Learning teamed up with the Instructional Technology team here at Connecticut College to put on a Talking Teaching event called “Digital Devices in the Classroom.” I was fortunate to attend the event; I had admittedly been thinking a lot about devices in the classroom this semester. Traditionally, I…
Student View: Apps for Accessibility and Productivity (2 of 3)
This post was written by Kristen Szuman, Instructional Technology Student Assistant. The second of three posts exploring productivity apps, this post will explore Bear, a note taking app; and Adobe Scan, a mobile PDF scanner. Bear (Shiny Frog, $Free) / Bear Pro (Shiny Frog, $1.49/month or $14.99/year) What Is It? Bear is a minimalist note…
The perfect textbook is possible! Tools for creating or customizing textbooks
We’ve written a lot about open educational resources (OER) on this blog, in addition to presenting at regional, consortial, and national meetings. One area we could explore further is the ability to customize true OER. Don’t like a chapter? Edit it, or simply remove it. Don’t like the order material is presented? Reorganize it so…
P-Card Accounting On the Fly (or in Vietnam)
Institutional credit cards, or purchase cards (‘p-cards’ for short), are quickly becoming part of the routine work habits of some faculty and many staff in higher education. Although the adoption of the p-card has obvious benefits to an institution, it can also create more work for more people, resulting in a net uptick in time…
Use Evernote to Create a Clean pdf of Your Moodle Syllabus
This semester, I followed Anthony Graesch’s advice and moved my syllabus entirely online. For all the reasons he outlined in his post, the shift from a paper-and-Moodle syllabus to a Moodle-only syllabus has been successful, and I’ll continue to do this in all of my classes in the future. However, this week I encountered a problem: how…