Join us on Tuesday, September 17 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm in the Advanced Technology Lab for Google Assignments in Moodle. Google Assignments (formerly Course Kit) is a plugin for Moodle that facilitates assignment submission using Google Drive. Google Assignments integrates into Moodle to allow students to submit assignments and instructors to provide feedback using the…
Author: Jessica McCullough
Test Drive Our New Overhead Book Scanner
Scan print publications quickly and easily with the library’s new 400dpi overhead book scanner. OCR the text to make it accessible for students. Export mp3 files that read the text aloud. The cropping feature enables you to select, crop and export images or text with the swipe of a finger. The new scanner should make…
Syllabus Inspiration
In addition to finding inspiration from our wonderful Connecticut College colleagues, there is a wealth of information online that you can draw from. If you’re looking for new ideas and inspiration for your courses, check the following sites. Contact an Instructional Technology team member to get help pulling it all together. Open Syllabus Explorer Explore…
Moodle (and more!) Drop-in
Monday, August 26 | 1:00-3:00pm | Advanced Technology Lab, Shain Library Are you ready for the new academic year? Need assistance setting up your gradebook? Quizzes? Class blog? Booking computer labs? Members of the Instructional Technology staff – including our new Instructional Technology Specialist! – will be available to answer questions on Moodle, WordPress, Computer…
Announcing the 2019 OER Exploration Grant Recipients
Information Services is excited to announce the eleven faculty who have received the Open Educational Resources (OER) Exploration Grant for 2019. The grant includes a monetary award as well as staff assistance to explore and investigate open resources that can be used in courses in lieu of traditional textbooks. The grant aims to reduce educational…
Handy Time-Saving Tips for Gmail and Google Calendar
I attended Monday’s Talking Teaching on “Office Hours and Email: Connecting with Students Outside of Class.” We mentioned two time-saving tools that faculty might find useful in managing their calendars and email: calendar appointment slots and email canned responses. Below are instructions for using both, pulled from our archives. Appointment Slots in the Google Calendar…
Collaborative Reading Online: Workshop Monday!
Are your students reading course materials on laptops or other devices? Online annotation tools can support students’ close reading of texts in an online environment. These same tools can be used to support collaborative reading where students add annotations, questions, and discussion directly on the texts themselves! Intentional use of social annotation tools make texts…
Open Educational Resources and the Open Pedagogy Connection
We are making great progress toward expanding the use of open educational resources at Connecticut College. After years of advocating for OER on campus, Information Services is currently offering an OER grant for faculty to fund the exploration, adoption, and creation of open access materials. Faculty may receive up to $1,500 to explore and implement…
Technologies for Teaching & Research Workshops 2019
Time to add our workshops to your calendar! You can find the full list of workshops online and find a print copy in your mailbox. All workshops are open to faculty and staff. Registration is recommended, but is not required so stop by if you schedule allows. Refreshments are served! Creating Online Coursepacks – Register Monday, February…
Welcome to the public domain, 1923!
On January 1, 2019, thousands of creative works published in 1923 were released into the public domain. This is the first time in 20 years that new material entered the public domain, including literary works, periodicals, dramatic works, movies, musical works, artistic works, and choreography. Now, every year on January 1st, a new batch of…