Working with the Wyles Family Western Reserve Collection of letters in Special Collections & Archives and the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, students in Kris Klein Hernández’s Borders, Empire, & Immigration History course this semester developed Beyond the Archives: Documenting Erasure, Survivance, and Dispossession from CT’s Western Reserve as a digital archive and scholarly website. Professor Hernández replaced his…
Category: Active & Project Based Learning
Introducing WeVideo for Video Assignments
Information Services now offers a limited number of licenses to WeVideo, a cloud-based video creation platform. Students may create individual or group projects using a large database of ready-to-use video and audio content, or uploading their recorded content. WeVideo is extremely simple to use, allowing students to focus on content and structure rather than learning…
Last Night’s Faculty Showcase
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources. We heard about scholarly and creative work that lie outside the traditional journal and monograph publishing venues, innovative pedagogies that empower students to create and openly share information, and how technology can foster equity among students. Digital Scholarship …
Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources
Three years in the planning! Join us for a demonstration of how digital technologies and open pedagogical practices can enhance teaching and research. Engage with faculty and their work, and gain inspiration for your own digital scholarship and open education projects. Presenters include: Chris Steiner, Anna Vallye, Andrea Lanoux, and members of the French and…
Engage Students with Wikipedia Editing Projects
Looking for a new assignment idea that empowers your students to contribute to public scholarship while honing their research and writing skills? Join us to learn about leveraging open pedagogical practices through Wikipedia editing assignments. Professor Ariella Rotramel will share their scaffolding strategies and past experience using the support services offered through the Wiki Education…
Open Pedagogy & Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and host your own original content, such as an open educational resource or a digital scholarship project. It can also be used as a teaching tool to engage students and create real-world assignments that can be shared with the public. In Professor Andy Lanoux’s FYS, students created…
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
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 &…
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,…
