We continue yesterday’s workshop recap post from the Weatherproofing Your Class event on Tuesday. This post will focus on technological solutions for student responses, group work, and synchronous video communication. Lecture With very little knowledge of audio or video recording, you can record a lecture. We like recorded lectures broken up into smaller chunks so…
Category: Tools
Afraid of snow? Learn to weatherproof your class
Can’t get to campus because of the weather (or other surprises)? Learn to employ technology creatively so you don’t have to cancel class! During this workshop we will discuss tools and strategies for modifying your class in response to last minute events. You will leave with hands-on experience using communication and collaboration technologies, such as…
5 Tech Tools for Spring 2015
Welcome back! For this semester we are working on an exciting new tool, have a great lineup of workshops, and, notably, preparing for the early opening of Shain Library! To stay updated on everything ed tech at Connecticut College, sign up to receive emails when we add a new post by clicking “Follow” on the…
Managing your Image Files with Picasa
Do you often have trouble locating images on your hard drive? You know you have the one that you need, but there’s no associated metadata to help you search for it in all your folders of files, and you have no idea where you would have stored it. There are many image management solutions available,…
Advising Week Tip: Use Google Calendar Appointment Slots
Because it is advising week, and because I had a request (thanks, Emily Morash!), this post is all about automating the process of setting up meeting times with students. I’m using the Appointment Slots feature in Google Calendar that is available to anyone with Google Apps for Education. Appointment slots allow you to create periods…
Workshop Recap: Technology Fellows Curricular Innovations III
Anthony Graesch focused his presentation on his Introduction to Archaeology class which enrolls about 30-40 students. Assignments in this class position students as primary data collectors. Hands-on research experience provides students with an in-depth understanding of the research process in which archaeologists are involved (similar to Ann Marie Davis’s assignment in History). In this case,…
Plot.ly Data Visualizations
This week I attended a Plotly data visualization workshop by PhD Candidate Matthew D. Lincoln from the Department of Art History at the University of Maryland. Plotly is a free web-based graphing tool for making data visualizations from small-to-moderate user-provided datasets. Groups can collaborate on projects directly through their Plotly accounts without having to send…
Save Time! Using Canned Responses in Gmail
Do you find yourself typing the same email response over and over again? Use a canned response! Simply, canned responses allow you to write text one time, save it and insert it over and over within Gmail. Canned responses are very easy to set up and use, take a look! Enable canned responses in your…
Expand Your Classroom Using Teleconference Technologies
Teleconference technologies offer great potential to the small liberal arts classroom. Invite experts into your classroom, expose students to a classroom in a different culture or language, or broaden your departmental course offerings. During our next workshop, Expand Your Classroom through Inter-Campus Collaborations, we will hear from faculty who have used teleconference technologies, including Andrea…
Student Response Systems Reflection
Did you miss our workshop today on student response systems (aka audience response systems or clickers)? Not to fear, here are the highlights! In addition to participating in and creating polls, participants heard from faculty who have implemented student response systems (SRS) in their classes. Thank you to our faculty presenters, Jenny Fredricks (Human Development),…