Welcome to Love Data Week! Be sure to check out the Love Data Week Guide for resources, activities and challenges. We’ll also be sharing a few Engage posts on issues surrounding the theme of data as an agent of change. Today’s post looks at the relationship between data literacy and data justice. Data literacy is…
Get Ready for International Love Data Week!
Next week, February 13 – 17, Connecticut College will participate in International Love Data Week. Love Data Week is a global celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities and colleges, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities. …
Talking Teaching: Moodle/Google Recap!
Members of the Instructional Technology Team participated as discussants in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s most recent Talking Teaching event. We met with an enthusiastic group of faculty to discuss Moodle and Google tips and tricks that can make the semester easier for instructors and students. In order to continue the discussion, we thought we’d…
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…
Just Added: Wikipedia Workshops
We’ve received a lot of interest in Wikipedia editing assignments. Wiki Edu, a non-profit organization, makes it easy for instructors to create and integrate Wikipedia assignments into classes. They are hosting free webinars for faculty. The first date offered is February 7 but additional dates are available; view additional dates by clicking on the registration…
Happy Holidays!
The Research Support and Curricular Technology Team wishes you a happy and restful winter break! If you have any end-of-semester questions, we will be available until the Holiday Luncheon on Wednesday, December 21. We’ll be back in the office on Wednesday, January 4 to prepare for the new semester. Please feel free to reach out…
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…
Open Access Week Day 5: Promoting Open Access to Conn College Research
Connecticut College’s institutional repository, Digital Commons, currently holds over 9,000 pieces of student and faculty research, reports, and archival documents, which have been downloaded nearly 2,000,000 times (we will likely hit that number right around Thanksgiving). Included in those totals are hundreds of articles by faculty, which have been accessed by about 130,000 researchers in…
Open Access Week Day 4: Environmental Effects of Textbooks
International open access week is a time to focus on sharing information and knowledge across disciplines and geographic boundaries. Yet it is also a time to think very concretely about the waste that is produced by the millions of textbooks that are produced each year and then tossed in landfills. Open Access titles allow students…
Open Access Week Day 3: Climate Resources at Shain Library
Consistent with Connecticut College’s status as an early implementer of an environmental studies major (initially founded as the “human ecology” major in 1968) and with solid library holdings in environmental studies (collections include the Linda Lear Collection of Rachel Carson Books and Papers; Nature Conservancy papers; Connecticut College Arboretum Bulletins and records; and the faculty…