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…
Category: Tools
Open Pedagogy & Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and host your own original content, such as an open educational resource or a digital scholarship project. It can also be used as a teaching tool to engage students and create real-world assignments that can be shared with the public. In Professor Andy Lanoux’s FYS, students created…
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…
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…
High Impact Assignment Idea: Editing Wikipedia
We haven’t posted about Wikipedia assignments in several years (5?!), but we’ve had a lot of questions and interest recently. So when I saw this in my inbox yesterday from Helaine Blumenthal at Wiki Education, I needed share it with you. If you are interested in Wikipedia assignments, read her message below and sign up!…
Introduction to Web Scraping Tools
Building off our recent exploration of tools for scraping and analyzing Twitter data, and expanding into more general web scrapers, there are a range of tools that allow you to “scrape” or extract data from any website you want. Before you begin scraping, make sure that your target website allows it. You can do this…
Teaching in the Zooniverse: Student Participation in Research Projects
One unintended outcome of participating in Douglass Day 2022 this February, was learning to use the Zooniverse platform to transcribe historical documents (read about our involvement in The Day). After the event, I spent some time exploring the projects hosted on Zooniverse and am excited to share some initial thoughts about how you and your…
Twitter Data Collection and Analysis Tools
Post contributed by Owen Avery ‘25, Digital Scholarship Assistant Almost 500 million tweets are sent per day, and thanks to Twitter’s fairly generous API (a tool that allows users to look at Twitter data without having to go on the page itself), there are loads of tools available to collect large datasets of tweets using…
2022 Tool Updates – Flipgrid
During the long days of remote teaching and learning, many students and faculty relied on technology to introduce themselves and get to know one another. One of the most effective tools for meeting this goal was Flipgrid, a video-based discussion thread. Instructors successfully utilized Flipgrid as a means to facilitate deeper discussion and provide elevated…
2022 Tool Updates – Socrative
If you’ve attended a virtual meeting or event over the last two years (and, really, who hasn’t at this point?), you’ve almost certainly been subjected to any number of different digital, interactive polling tools. One of the most efficient and least onerous ways to increase engagement in a virtual event is by throwing a poll…
