Do you know what open access is? There are many myths surrounding open access. Take a minute (or a few) to learn about open access by watching these brief but informative videos. Have 8 minutes? Watch Open Access Explained! by Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen. Only have one minute? Watch The Library Minute: Open Access from…
Author: Jessica McCullough
Happy Open Access Week!
Happy Seventh Open Access Week! This week is a global celebration of the open access movement in scholarly research. Throughout this week I will use this blog to share information about open access. But first, why should you care about open access? The price of access to scholarly research, the same research that you produce,…
The Printer Ate My Homework: Turning Assignments in Online
Are students claiming printer problems as an excuse for late assignments? Collecting papers and other written assignments online through Moodle can be an efficient and effective way of avoiding that problem. Not only do students avoid printing, and the associated financial and environmental costs, but collecting assignments online can provide benefits and efficiencies for the…
Save Time! Using Canned Responses in Gmail
Do you find yourself typing the same email response over and over again? Use a canned response! Simply, canned responses allow you to write text one time, save it and insert it over and over within Gmail. Canned responses are very easy to set up and use, take a look! Enable canned responses in your…
Expanding Your Class: Yesterday’s Workshop on Inter-Campus Collaborations
Thank you to yesterday’s presenters, Hisae Kobayashi, Joe Schroeder, Andrea Lanoux, and Jason Jones (Director of Educational Technology, Trinity College), at the Teaching with Technology event, Expand Your Classroom through Inter-Campus Collaborations. I personally left feeling very excited about the possibilities that videoconferencing technology affords our students. Here is a short summary of the event…
Expand Your Classroom Using Teleconference Technologies
Teleconference technologies offer great potential to the small liberal arts classroom. Invite experts into your classroom, expose students to a classroom in a different culture or language, or broaden your departmental course offerings. During our next workshop, Expand Your Classroom through Inter-Campus Collaborations, we will hear from faculty who have used teleconference technologies, including Andrea…
Student Response Systems Reflection
Did you miss our workshop today on student response systems (aka audience response systems or clickers)? Not to fear, here are the highlights! In addition to participating in and creating polls, participants heard from faculty who have implemented student response systems (SRS) in their classes. Thank you to our faculty presenters, Jenny Fredricks (Human Development),…
Workshop Wednesday: Student Response Systems
Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems, such as Poll Everywhere, Socrative, and clickers, allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. During this workshop, Joe Schroeder, Jenny Fredericks, and Page Owen will discuss their use…
Using Historypin to Engage Students with Place
Becky Parmer, Archivist for Connecticut College, wrote the following post for our blog. Thank you, Becky! Historypin is a user-generated online archive that enables users to engage with history through digital storytelling. By overlaying or “pinning” photographs, documents, video, and audio recordings on Google Maps, users from around the world help create digital narratives of…
Mapping Fun with Google Maps Engine Lite
I like maps and I love exploring media rich interactive maps. In preparing this post, I spent far too much time exploring projects like Bomb Sight, Mapping the Long Women’s Movement, the New York City Graffiti & Street Art Project, Travelogue, or Visualizing Emancipation. It seems like there is now a multi-layer interactive map for just about…