Happy New Year!
We are excited to announce our spring 2020 Technologies for Teaching and Research workshop schedule. We are covering a wide range of topics, many of which came directly from faculty. Also included in this list are the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which includes several presentations by Connecticut College faculty and staff, and the Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources Showcase.
Refreshments are provided at all workshops, and registration is appreciated but not in any way required. Please join us!
Using Library Data Resources for Class Assignments – Register
Thursday, February 6 | 9:00-10:00 am
Advanced Technology Lab
The library provides access to a surprising amount of data that can be used to teach quantitative reasoning with fun exercises based on Census data, social data, voting data and more. In this workshop, we will look at the library databases DataPlanet, ICPSR, and Social Explorer, as well as other popular data sites.
Better Student Feedback with Technology! – Register
Tuesday, February 11 | 2:45-4:00 pm
Advanced Technology Lab
Feedback can be a powerful tool in your classroom. Technology has the potential to make it more effective and impactful. Join us to learn about strategies and technology tools that can be integrated into your course and teaching. Topics will include video and audio feedback and online rubrics.
Visualization of Data Lunch Series: Tableau – Register
Friday, February 21 | 12:00-1:15 pm
Advanced Technology Lab
Tableau allows you to generate a huge variety of data visualizations to explore and share your data in new ways. Tableau is easier to use than Excel charts and far more powerful than Google Sheets. Visualizations can be exported and shared as static images or interactive displays. Join us for our second Visualization of Data lunch series and learn the basics of Tableau!
Not Just for Students! ePortfolios for Faculty – Register
Friday, February 28 | 9:00-10:00
Advanced Technology Lab
Many students are using ePortfolios in the Pathways and Centers, but did you know you can create a portfolio too? Join us to learn about two software platforms – Digication and Domain of One’s Own – to create your own teaching and/or research portfolio.
Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference
Saturday, February 29 | 8:00am-6:00pm
Raether Library and Information Technology Center
Trinity College, Hartford
We are co-organizing the inaugural Connecticut Digital Humanities conference in partnership with Wesleyan University, Trinity College, Yale DHLab, and the University of Connecticut. The free, all-day event will include over 30 talks, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel presentations by faculty, students, and librarians across the northeast. The full program is available online. We hope to see you there!
Connecticut College will be represented by:
- Di Luo (Art History/Architectural Studies): “Photogrammetric Modeling in Surveying and Teaching Chinese Architecture”
- Benjamin Beranek (Economics), Lyndsay Bratton (Library), Danielle Egan (GSIS), and Christopher Steiner (Art History): “Supporting Experimental Research in the Liberal Arts: The Digital Scholarship Fellows Program at Connecticut College”
- Anna Vallye (Art History/Architectural Studies) and Rose Oliveira (Library): “Mapping Urban Renewal in East New London”
- Anthony Graesch (Anthropology) and Lyndsay Bratton (Library): “The Kw’éts’tel Project: A Case Study of Integrating Open Scholarship into Research Design and Peer Review into Open Scholarship”
Library Tools to Stay Current with Research – Register
Tuesday, March 3 | 2:45-4:00pm
Advanced Technology Lab
The library provides access to, and support for, many resources that can help you stay current on research in your field as you move through your career. In this workshop we will look at options for setting up notifications/alerts from within research databases, Google tools including Google Alerts, accessing collections while away from campus, collaboration and organization tools, and discuss some of the benefits and challenges of open platforms such as Google Scholar.
Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources Showcase:
Information Services Programs for Faculty Scholarship
Wednesday, April 15| 4:00-5:30 pm – Chu Room
Reception 5:30-6:30 pm – Living Room
Current fellows in the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program and the Open Educational Resources Program will present the results of their work over the past year and a half. These programs, both collaborations between Information Services and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, support innovative faculty scholarship and pedagogy and help to lower the cost of education through the creation of openly available course materials. A celebratory reception will follow in the library’s Living Room.
Supporting Open Pedagogy: OER and Digital Scholarship – Register
Thursday, April 23 | 2:45-4:00 pm
Advanced Technology Lab
Open pedagogical methods, including the use and creation of open educational resources (OER) and digital scholarship, afford significant opportunities to develop students’ research and technology skill sets through experiential learning, provide students and the public with access to affordable, scholarly resources, and reach new and broader audiences through online publishing. In this workshop we will provide an overview of the Open Educational Resources Grant and Digital Scholarship Fellows Programs and browse examples of assignments and projects that incorporate best practices of open pedagogy and student-faculty collaborations.
