Wishing you could bring an expert into your class? Our Web Conferencing Kits make connecting with guest speakers, colleagues, students – anyone – easier than ever. The kits, available to faculty from the Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC), support web conferencing through Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and FaceTime. Each kit contains: one 1080P webcam…
Category: Videoconferencing
Zooming into Language Acquisition
My current Japanese 400C provides students multiple opportunities to study collaboratively with the upper-level Japanese students at Mount Holyoke College (MHC), MA by using technologies. This course employs content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach, and students are expected to gain the new knowledge about the Japanese language through the reading materials, which my friend at MHC has been developing….
Weatherproofing Workshop Recap I
Thanks to everyone who attended the Weatherproofing Your Class workshop yesterday! For anyone who couldn’t attend, here is the first of two posts with information from the workshop. This post will focus on our discussion, and tomorrow’s will focus on the technology. Communication with Students Because of the recent policy change regarding snow days and…
Expanding Your Class: Yesterday’s Workshop on Inter-Campus Collaborations
Thank you to yesterday’s presenters, Hisae Kobayashi, Joe Schroeder, Andrea Lanoux, and Jason Jones (Director of Educational Technology, Trinity College), at the Teaching with Technology event, Expand Your Classroom through Inter-Campus Collaborations. I personally left feeling very excited about the possibilities that videoconferencing technology affords our students. Here is a short summary of the event…
