Thank you to our community for contributing to the Douglass Day project! Over 90 faculty, staff, and students showed up to transcribe Frederick Douglass’ correspondence. Together, with other participating organizations around the world, we transcribed over 6,500 full documents! You can read about the event on the Connecticut College website. The “Yours Truly, Frederick Douglass” transcription…
Author: Jessica McCullough
Profiles in Open: Midge Thomas
Faculty members like Midge Thomas, Sylvia Marx Professor of Music, are embracing Open Educational Resources in their courses. Professor Thomas’s journey began by exploring the wealth of OER available in the field of music theory, where Thomas saw the potential to improve the learning experience for her students and decrease costs. Encouraged by the positive…
Douglass Day 2024 Transcribe-a-thon
Connecticut College is hosting the annual Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon; together we will help the Douglass Day organizers transcribe all 8,731 pages of the Frederick Douglass Papers, 1841 to 1912 in one day! Come, bring a laptop, and contribute to a nation-wide celebration of Frederick Douglass by making the Frederick Douglass Papers accessible to students and…
Last Chance to Register for Spring Learning Community: AI for Teaching and Learning
Don’t forget to register if you are able to join us this semester! Meeting details will be shared with registrants no later than Wednesday, January 24. Generative AI for Teaching and Learning: A Faculty Learning CommunityTuesdays, 2:30 – 4:00 pmJanuary 30, February 27, March 26, April 30, May 14 This faculty learning community, sponsored by…
Introducing WeVideo for Video Assignments
Information Services now offers a limited number of licenses to WeVideo, a cloud-based video creation platform. Students may create individual or group projects using a large database of ready-to-use video and audio content, or uploading their recorded content. WeVideo is extremely simple to use, allowing students to focus on content and structure rather than learning…
Faculty Spring Learning Community: AI for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Research Support & Curricular Technology team invites you to join a semester-long faculty learning community on Generative AI for Teaching and Learning. We are asking participants to commit to attending all five meetings. If you are interested, please read the description below and complete the linked form…
Open Flint Data Collection: Workshop Thursday
We invite you, and your students, to learn about and engage with the Open Flint Data Collection. As members of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences, Connecticut College faculty, staff and students have access to its…
Announcing CT Digital Scholarship Exchange Workshops
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce interested faculty to different digital scholarship approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Fall Workshop…
What We Read This Summer
Over the summer weeks, one of the things we like to do is catch up with our professional reading. Here are just a few of the things we read this summer. It’s Time for Academe to Take Podcasting Seriously Written by members of a working group within the Modern Language Association (MLA), this article discusses…
Scholarship Support Services for Summer
Are you researching, writing, or creating this summer? Information Services’ Scholarship Support Services details the many ways we can assist you in achieving your scholarship goals. Whether you are working with novel methodologies and techniques, collaborating in new ways with colleagues and students, managing data requirements for grants, Information Services can partner with you to…