Last Friday and Saturday Southern Connecticut State University held its 22nd Women’s Studies Conference, and a delegation from Connecticut College was there to represent! The conference theme – #FeministIn(ter)ventions: Women, Community, Technology – provided a perfect opportunity to share some of the technology-rich courses and projects that have been undertaken at the College, and to…
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Virtual Classroom Connections
This post was written by Laura Little and Jessica McCullough. More and more CC faculty are using web conferencing or teleconferencing tools to bring experts into their classes, to connect students to a different culture or language, and to broaden course offerings. To facilitate these connections, the instructional technology team has worked with many technologies:…
The Return of the “Digital Natives” – r u ready? ;)
The relative quiet of summer gives faculty time to think deeply and ambitiously about course structure and assignments. Whether you’re developing a new course or tweaking a familiar one, the syllabus likely includes technology-dependent activities – maybe the familiar Moodle discussion board or a novel hashtag project. As you put on the finishing touches and…
Animate messages with Tellagami
To continue our series on easy-to-use illustration resources, we’d like to let you know about Tellagami. This free app lets you create short animated messages (called “gamis”) that you can send in an email, tweet, status update, or text message. Choose a character, an emotion and a background, record an audio message, and your “gami”…