Do we have SPSS? Photoshop? Audacity? iMovie? If you use, recommend, or require students to use a specific type of software, consult the Computer Labs Software page. This page lists all the software available in the computer labs that are open to all students, the Neff Lab and the PC Classroom. As a reminder, the…
Author: Jessica McCullough
Research on the Go: Conn College Libraries App
The Connecticut College Libraries App is now available! Download and install the free app on your Apple, Android, Windows, or Amazon device. The app is designed to connect you to research services and resources at any time from anywhere. Use the app to quickly find library hours, find the date and register for the next Teaching…
Lynda.com’s Top 10 at Conn
What are people learning in lynda? Here are the top 10 courses viewed by Connecticut College users in the past year: Excel 2013 Essential Training Up and Running with Audacity InDesign Essential Training GIT Essential Training Getting Started with Premiere Pro CS5 Access 2013 Essential Training Excel for Mac 2011 Essential Training Managing and Analyzing…
DELI Proposals Due July 1
The Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI) is a program to provide classes with technologies intuitive to students to enhance the students’ learning. Students in participating classes have been provided with such technologies as iPods, iPads, digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital camcorders. Proposals are due July 1 for fall 2014 courses. If you wish…
On Blended Learning and Flipping the Classroom
This is a guest post written by Anthony P. Graesch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Technology Fellow. Representing the Faculty Technology Fellows Program at Connecticut College, I recently travelled with two colleagues to attend the 2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference hosted by Bryn Mawr College. The roster of presentations included 15 talks…
Learning with Lynda over the summer
Summer is a great time to learn a new skill or build upon existing skills. Interested in retouching family photos? Finally learning to code (or coding for kids)? Make a plan to be more productive next year? Lynda.com offers courses in these topics as well as thousands others. Lynda.com is available to all current Connecticut College…
Camp Teach & Learn Instructional Technology Related Sessions
We are very excited to be a part of this year’s Camp Teach & Learn. Here are some sessions related to instructional technology – hope to see you there! Reading Group: Teaching Naked Tuesday, May 20, 8:30 – 10:30 Didn’t read the book? Feel free to come anyway. We’ll be discussing Jose Antonio Bowen’s (President…
Creating Better Online (and offline!) Quizzes
This post is in response to Chapter 3, “Blended Assessments of Learning,” in the BlendKit Reader, Second Edition, Edited by Kelvin Thompson, EdD. As an instructional designer, I think about assessment early on in course development. Assessments should follow directly from learning objectives, answering the question: “how will students show me they met this learning…
Computer labs
It seems hard to believe, but now is the time to start thinking about reserving lab space for next year. Requests for new software should be made by June 1, 2014 to ensure that is added for the fall semester. For spring semester the deadline is November 1. Not sure if the software you or…
Traditional Course Design and Blended Course Design: Similarities and Departures
This post is a response to Chapter 1, “Understanding Blended Learning,” in the BlendKit Reader, Second Edition, Edited by Kelvin Thompson, EdD. The topic for our first week is “Understanding Blended Learning.” Put simply, a blended course is one in which online learning replaces some portion of face-to-face instruction (Thompson, 2014). The blended learning model…