Last week several librarians, instructional technologists, and faculty met virtually with a representative, Samantha Erickson, from the Wiki Education Foundation. This is the same organization that Ariella Rotramel and Andrea Lanoux worked with on their recent Wikipedia assignments. The meeting was inspirational! Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the world with content from…
Category: Research Skills
Adding Voices to Scholarship: Wikipedia Editing
I developed my Fall 2015 Feminist Theory course with metaliteracy as a learning objective to assist students in studying theory in context. Metaliteracy is a framework that promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age (Mackey & Jacobson). The focus on metaliteracy helped challenge students’ common understandings of theory as distanced from empirical research…
The JSTOR of Data Archives: ICPSR
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. In this post, Anrdrew Lopez walks us through one scenario…
Literacy, Technology, and a 21st Century Curriculum
In my last post, I discussed some of my ideas for flipping the classroom in the Social Sciences/Humanities. In this post I turn to a different theme – literacy – which has surfaced as an important and recurring topic in the Technology Fellows Program (TFP) meetings. In fact, the topic has come up so often,…
“Flipping” the Classroom with Web 2.0 and Social Inquiry
This is a guest post written by Technology Fellow, Ann Marie Davis, Assistant Professor of History. One of the areas that I have been exploring as a Tech Fellow draws on the practice of sociality in academic inquiry. To put it simply, good scholarship often depends on good social interface. Trying out new ideas, drawing…
Freshman Research Skills: Workshop Summary
Thanks to all who joined us for our first Teaching with Technology event. The topic was Freshman Research Skills, and Kathy Gehring presented the results from the Research Practices Survey (RPS). The RPS is a tool that allows us to collect information on our first year students’ previous research experiences and assess their research skills. …
