In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…
Category: Active & Project Based Learning
New Public Database Makes our Campus Art Collections Available for Broader Use
The Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center recently published the Campus Art Collections on a platform from LUNA Imaging, making these collections available in a beautiful and user-friendly format. The database will bring together all the different art collections at the College, some of which are part of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections &…
Teaching in the Zooniverse: Student Participation in Research Projects
One unintended outcome of participating in Douglass Day 2022 this February, was learning to use the Zooniverse platform to transcribe historical documents (read about our involvement in The Day). After the event, I spent some time exploring the projects hosted on Zooniverse and am excited to share some initial thoughts about how you and your…
Domains & Websites Workshops
Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
New Workshop Today: Tools & Strategies for Including Remote Students in your Physical Class
Are you grappling with the best methods for engaging your students who are in isolation or quarantine but well enough to participate in class? We have developed this workshop to share a wide variety of techniques and concrete strategies for including all students in class remotely and in-person, synchronously and asynchronously. We highly recommend this…
Upcoming Event: Opening Up Knowledge: Wikipedia as a site of Collaboration and Learning
As part of Trinity College’s Art + Feminism CT virtual event, Ariella Rotramel will lead a workshop on Wikipedia editing this Thursday, March 25, from 1:00-2:00pm. The description and link registration is below – all are welcome! While some educators view citations from Wikipedia with suspicion, an increasing amount of faculty are incorporating Wikipedia editing…
Summer Instructional Technology Workshops
In an effort to support faculty preparing to teach this fall – whatever it brings – we will be offering workshops throughout the summer. All workshops will be online, so you can join from anywhere you like! We brainstormed topics, particularly more interesting tools to support student learning and engagement than we were able to…
Introducing Kaltura MediaSpace
Connecticut College has been using Kaltura as its video-hosting solution for Moodle since 2013. Our Kaltura subscription was upgraded last summer and we now have a MediaSpace website that can host videos outside of Moodle. This Connecticut College branded site has no advertisements and allows for greater control of sharing content. MediaSpace Uses at Connecticut…
Claim Your Domain on Digital Connecticut College and Create!
Join us on Thursday for Digital Connecticut College: Build Websites and Tools for Class Engagement. We’ll be in the Advanced Computer Lab from 9:00-10:00 am. Register or show up as your schedule allows. Coffee and breakfast treats will be served. Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to create a digital…
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…
