Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Category: Active & Project Based Learning
A Student Experience With The Digication Portfolio
This blog post was written by Rigoberto Reyna, who worked as the Instructional Technology Student Assistant last summer. He is a junior and a member of the Social Justice & Sustainability pathway. In the post, he reflects on the use of an ePortfolio in the thematic inquiry course. Thank you, Rigoberto! As a sophomore I…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
Using Video Reflections in Class
This semester, I have been teaching ANT 297/298 Anthropologists Abroad. This is a new course for the Department of Anthropology designed to help our students make the most of their study away experiences. In essence, we want them to be anthropologists critical of their surroundings and engaged in intellectual thought while they are away. In…
First Cohort of Faculty Join the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program
This January, Professors Phillip Barnes (Biology), Catherine Benoît (Anthropology), and Sufia Uddin (Religious Studies) became the first Digital Scholarship Fellows in a new program generously funded by the Office of the Dean of Faculty and led by staff members in Information Services. Building on the success of the Technology Fellows Program (2014-2018), the Digital Scholarship…
Can Virtual Discussions Inform Face-To-Face Discussions?
My Technology Fellows project involved developing a framework for digital discussions. My main goals were to make my classes “snowday-proof” and find a way to hold class if emergency or travel prevented me from getting to campus. After a lackluster small-group discussion session in one of my courses, I am now thinking about whether it…
WeSpeke Follow-Up
In my last post I talked about using a social media site for my upper level conversation class as a way to connect to native speakers. The main purpose of this experiment was to have access to native speakers for text/video-chat on some of the topics discussed in class. This exercise would give my students…
Workshop for students at the Walter Commons: Digital Portfolios
Are you teaching a thematic inquiry course, or are otherwise involved in a pathway? If so, encourage your students to attend this workshop being held at the Walter Commons on Thursday, February 22nd (tomorrow!). I will facilitate a discussion of the importance of reflection and integration in the pathways, particularly how that work relates to…
Searching for native speakers for video-chats with students: Free and risky or costly and safe?
Previous posts in this blog have reported on the use of videoconferencing in foreign language classes in order to provide students with authentic experiences that can bring a completely new dimension to the language learning process. See my previous post and Luis Gonzalez’s post for details. When video-conferencing is used with the main purpose of providing…
2018 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you been thinking about creating a digital companion for your book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into a digital archive, maps, or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage…
