Recently a call for participation circulated for the Technology Fellows Program (TFP). The TFP is a rewarding opportunity to reflect on teaching and learning in a community of learners that includes faculty and staff across the College. Fostering deep partnerships between faculty and instructional technologists, the program explores how faculty can use novel and innovative digital…
Author: Jessica McCullough
My Lynda Playlist
New courses are added daily to Lynda.com. I subscribed to the lynda.com email list to keep updated on the latest and greatest (if you’re interested, you can subscribe, too!). I now have a running list of courses that interest me saved in a playlist. Once the semester winds down, I plan on visiting my playlist…
Video, Images, and Music, Oh My! Library Resources for Teaching
You may have noticed that this blog has been silent for a few weeks. This partly has to do with the Thanksgiving break and workload at this time in the semester, but also to the huge amount of information I want to share – I am overwhelmed at the thought of writing (and asking you…
Workshop Recap: Free Textbooks?!
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s workshop, “Free Textbooks?! Using Open Educational Resources (OER).” A special thank you to Karen Gonzalez Rice and Joe Schroeder who shared their experiences replacing textbooks with OER. We learned a lot hearing about your experiences – positive and negative! I wrote about their presentations in a previous post…
Final Teaching with Technology Workshop of the Semester Tomorrow!
We hope you can join us for our final Teaching with Technology workshop of the semester tomorrow. We will meet in the Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) tomorrow (Wednesday) from 10:30-11:30. The ATL is located on the lower level of Shain Library, just on the other side of the stairs from the IT Service Desk. Free…
What are the Technology Fellows up to? Part 2
Last Tuesday we spent another productive day with the Technology Fellows in the Advanced Technology Lab (ATL) on the lower level of Shain Library. The first part of the day was devoted to workshopping assignments from Ginny Anderson and Emily Morash. Our theme was creation – both Ginny and Emily had us try out their…
The JSTOR of Data Archives: ICPSR
Connecticut College is a member of ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research), a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. In this post, Anrdrew Lopez walks us through one scenario…
When Risks Pay Off in the Classroom
As we think about our courses, curriculum, and institution as a whole through the lens of full participation, we should not overlook the additional costs we ask (require) our students to bear in order to successfully complete their education. Textbooks are one such cost that I’ve written about recently. Last Wednesday, Joe Schroeder, Karen…
Next week is data week!
Next week we are offering two data-related workshops: Working with Data Across the Curriculum and Intro to Data Visualization Tools. Whether you use data in your own research, ask students to use data, or are interested in exploring ways to easily incorporate quantitative exercises into your courses, please join us! Working with Data Across the…
What are the Technology Fellows up to?
Last Wednesday the second cohort of Technology Fellows met for a full day of discussion, workshops, and troubleshooting in the Advanced Technology Lab in Shain Library. Three of the five fellows, Luis Gonzalez, Hisae Kobayashi and Leo Garofalo presented their work, shared breakthroughs and challenges, and posed questions to the group. We will be hearing…