The appointment lot feature of Google Calendar has always been one of our favorite tools, and its use was particularly important over the past few semesters. We are excited to share that Google has rolled out a brand new version of appointment slots called “Appointment Schedules”. If you are an avid appointment slot user, you…
Author: Kate Bengtson
2022 Tool Updates – Flipgrid
During the long days of remote teaching and learning, many students and faculty relied on technology to introduce themselves and get to know one another. One of the most effective tools for meeting this goal was Flipgrid, a video-based discussion thread. Instructors successfully utilized Flipgrid as a means to facilitate deeper discussion and provide elevated…
2022 Tool Updates – Socrative
If you’ve attended a virtual meeting or event over the last two years (and, really, who hasn’t at this point?), you’ve almost certainly been subjected to any number of different digital, interactive polling tools. One of the most efficient and least onerous ways to increase engagement in a virtual event is by throwing a poll…
2022 Tool Updates – Kahoot!
Kahoot! has served as a popular gamification tool that makes assessments interactive, competitive, and fun. This tool allows instructors to create quiz games that can be played during a synchronous class to increase student engagement or completed asynchronously by individual students to check comprehension. Unfortunately, this tool update will highlight the new limitations that Kahoot…
2022 Tool Updates – Screencastify
In this era of virtual meetings, endless emails, and digital teaching and learning, it’s often just easier to show something on your computer screen than to try to type out an explanation. In these cases, a basic screen recorder is an invaluable asset, and Screencastify is one of the best. This free Google Chrome extension…
2022 Tool Update Series
As we enter another semester that calls for flexibility in the classroom, the Instructional Technology team continues to support and promote a number of digital tools that increase student engagement in different learning modalities. These tools are always updating and changing access to their features, and so we will be posting a series of tool…
Tools & Strategies for Engaging Remote Students in Your Physical Class (A Webinar Recording)
If you didn’t catch one of our synchronous workshops on including remote students in your physical class, we’ve got you covered! You can find a recording of the webinar below. During this session, we discussed: Definitions and principles for teaching remote and in-person students Concrete strategies for creating more equitable learning spaces for these types…
The Students Behind the Masks: Tech Tools for Meeting Your Students
The great experiment of remote teaching and learning may be starting to fade into our collective rearview mirrors, but many of the tech tools that you spent countless hours learning and deploying are still useful as we head back to in-person classes this week. For instance, many of the tools you leveraged last year to…
Google Chrome Tab Groups
As more and more of our daily lives moved to the computer during this past year, I found myself creating some bad, albeit unavoidable, habits. The worst of those was almost certainly the opening of countless browser tabs, often to the point of being unable to keep track of where I was supposed to be…
Zoom Feature: Captions
We are excited to announce that Zoom has made closed captioning available to all licensed Connecticut College users! This means that you can enable machine-generated captions or live transcripts for your Zoom meetings and online classes, and your participants can choose to make those features visible on their individual views. We highly encourage all meeting…
