The time/space matrix shown above can help organize the tools we support and that might be useful to you as you plan to teach in different modalities. We are creating a calendar of workshops this summer that focus on tools in the lower quadrants of the model: remote/synchronous and remote/asynchronous. Whatever you’re interested in learning…
Category: Collaborative Assignments
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 Google Course Kit
Students have long been taking advantage of the college’s access to Google Drive for completing course work. Assignments completed in Google Drive, however, could not be easily submitted as assignments…until now. Google has introduced a new plug-in for Moodle that streamlines the submission of student assignments completed using Google Drive. The plug-in allows students to…
Collaborative Reading Online: Workshop Monday!
Are your students reading course materials on laptops or other devices? Online annotation tools can support students’ close reading of texts in an online environment. These same tools can be used to support collaborative reading where students add annotations, questions, and discussion directly on the texts themselves! Intentional use of social annotation tools make texts…
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…
Introducing “Digital Connecticut College”
Yesterday we held a workshop to introduce Digital Connecticut College. Thanks to everyone who attended! What is Digital Connecticut College? Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to register a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums such as blogs, portfolios, and wikis. You can easily install open source applications…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
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…
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 Google Drive for Peer Review
In ANT 320 Anthropology of Sexuality and Gender, students work in pairs to compose posters that address an issue on campus or in a workplace related to sexualty and/or gender. For example, one pair of students is writing about intimate partner violence and bystander intervention. Another pair is writing about the erasure of queer people…
Virtual Discussion: Take 1
In my last post, I described how, from a hotel room across the world, I was getting ready to launch my “virtual discussion” in class the next day. Students had to complete an assigned reading before class and then spend class time in a Google Hangout (1) addressing a set of initial prompts in an…