Ever wonder what CSS, HTML, JavaScript, DNS, or IP address mean? Gain a better understanding of how the web works – both the front end and the back end by watching “Web Technology Fundamentals” on lynda.com. This brand new course runs a little over two hours, and “is your “plain English” guide to the world…
Announcing the IS Twitter Account
Follow IS on Twitter! Keep up with the latest news from Shain Library, Greer Library, the Language and Culture Center, Instructional Technology, and the IT Service Desk. Click here to view our new Twitter account or follow us: ConnCollegeIS.
Thanks for lunch! Reading Day Recap Summary
Thanks to those who joined us yesterday at the Reading Day Recap Lunch! The purpose of the lunch was to get faculty together to informally discuss their uses of technology in the classroom, in research, or in daily life. In reading through your comments, it sounds like we achieved this goal. Some of the topics…
Announcing Call for Proposals: Technology Fellows Program
Wish you had more time to explore ways to integrate technology into your classes? Here is your opportunity! If you didn’t see the call for proposals, you can read it here. A full description of the program was emailed with the call, but you can also contact us if you need it. “Beginning in spring…
Faculty, Lunch is on us!
All Connecticut College faculty are invited to join the Instructional Technology team for lunch on the first reading day this semester, Thursday, December 12, from 11:30am – 1:00pm in the Haines Room. We will exchange insights, strategies, challenges and successes related to integrating technology into the curriculum. You will leave with new ideas and inspiration…
Using the Moodle Gradebook? Use the Moodle Gradebook!
Help students take responsibility for their learning by using the gradebook in Moodle. The gradebook allows students to keep track of their grades on individual assignments throughout the semester, giving them greater awareness of their progress and standing in a course (and potentially avoiding grade-related panic at the end of the semester). As we enter…
Browse Online Scholarly Journals with Browzine
With more and more journal subscriptions moving online, it is difficult for scholars to browse recent research as they once did. A new app, Browzine, aims to solve this problem. The library is running a trial of BrowZine, a new tablet application (iOS & Android) that allows you to browse, read and follow scholarly journals in a format…
How Much Are Your Textbooks? Could They Be Free?
Technology can help people do amazing things. OpenStax College is one of those amazing things. Haven’t heard of it? OpenStax is a nonprofit organization founded at Rice University and supported by some big foundations (ex. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), that creates peer reviewed, high quality introductory…
Google Books Ruling: What Does It Mean?
Did you hear about yesterday’s ruling on Google books? Google’s book digitization project was challenged by the Authors Guild – this case has been in the works for 8 years! U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in New York ruled in favor of Google by dismissing the case. In his opinion, he describes the benefits we…
Animate messages with Tellagami
To continue our series on easy-to-use illustration resources, we’d like to let you know about Tellagami. This free app lets you create short animated messages (called “gamis”) that you can send in an email, tweet, status update, or text message. Choose a character, an emotion and a background, record an audio message, and your “gami”…
