Social annotation improves reading proficiency and critical thinking skills Hypothesis is a collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. It is a great way to engage students, turning any PDF or online article into a collaborative learning experience. Social annotation holds students accountable and pushes them to read…
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CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities 2025 Conference
After a few years’ hiatus, we are delighted to announce that the third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) will take place on February 21-22, 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. We seek participation from a broad range…
Douglass Day 2024 Transcribe-a-thon
Connecticut College is hosting the annual Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon; together we will help the Douglass Day organizers transcribe all 8,731 pages of the Frederick Douglass Papers, 1841 to 1912 in one day! Come, bring a laptop, and contribute to a nation-wide celebration of Frederick Douglass by making the Frederick Douglass Papers accessible to students and…
Remote Teaching: Tools and Support for Conn College Faculty
There are many ways to provide content and continue engaging with your students even if you are not meeting in a classroom. See below for a few of our favorites: Record mini-lectures or a full lecture. This can be so easy and done on the fly! Technologies we recommend are Kaltura Capture, PowerPoint (Insert Audio or Record Presentation), QuickTime audio/screen…
Using Hypothesis just got a little easier!
Hypothesis is the social reading/collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Read more here about ways that you can use Hypothesis for class assignments. Until recently, only publicly available websites or PDF files stored in your Google Drive were able to be used with Hypothesis. Thanks to a…
International Open Access Week: New Guidelines for Federal Grants
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2022! To promote Open Access at Connecticut College, we are publishing one new post a day this week. The Open Access movement continues to grow. (Wait, back up! What is open access?) In addition to increased visibility and access, openness promotes research integrity, allows for wider and interdisciplinary collaboration,…
Moodle Upgrade!
Information Services has upgraded Moodle to a newer version (3.11 for those who are keeping track). While you’ll find that most things look the same, there are a few changes that we think are worth noting. We have added a couple of new course formats to choose from, to change the visual appearance of your…
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 &…
2022 Tool Update Series
As we enter another semester that calls for flexibility in the classroom, the Instructional Technology team continues to support and promote a number of digital tools that increase student engagement in different learning modalities. These tools are always updating and changing access to their features, and so we will be posting a series of tool…
Public Domain 2022: 400,000 audio recordings, Winnie-the-Pooh, and much more!
On January 1, 2022 hundreds of thousands published works entered the public domain. When works enter the public domain they are free for anyone to discover, download, share, and remix without copyright restrictions or limitations. This year’s Public Domain Day is especially notable because it includes over 400,000 sound recordings created before 1923. This long…
