Information Services presents International Love Data week 2024! This year the theme of Love Data Week is “My Kind of Data.” Join us as we explore this theme encompassing data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data. If you have not participated previously, now is the time! There will be…
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Google Productivity Tool Updates Spring 2024
In a recent Teaching with Technology workshop, we covered some of the most noteworthy Google updates to enhance your productivity in teaching and research. Here are some of our favorite new features across the Google Workplace suite: Google Drive Tools for tidying your Storage The College has a new storage policy that puts limits on…
New Grading and Export Options in Hypothesis Annotation Tool
Hypothesis has some exciting new features! Hypothesis is the collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Students can annotate publicly available websites, PDF files and JSTOR articles. Read on for new functionality available with Hypothesis. Reusing Annotations with Import/Export With this new product function, you can reuse annotations…
An Introduction to ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world’s largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR provides data and resources to a community of hundreds of institutions around the world including students, scholars, policy analysts, policymakers, government officials, and the media. It is available to all Connecticut College students, faculty and…
Open Flint Data Collection: Workshop Thursday
We invite you, and your students, to learn about and engage with the Open Flint Data Collection. As members of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences, Connecticut College faculty, staff and students have access to its…
RS&CT at Camp Teach & Learn
Here is where you can find us at Camp Teach & Learn this week: Embedding the Writing Center & Library into Your FYSWednesday 24 May 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ePortfolios for Increased FYS & Pathway EngagementWednesday 24 May 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM Engaging & Teaching with AI ToolsThursday 25 May 2:45 PM to…
We know you’re busy, but don’t forget to submit your OER grant proposal!
The Connecticut College OER Grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Applications are due December 15. See the Call for Proposals for all details, and don’t hesitate to contact us (Jessica or Ariela) with questions or for a consultation. Adoption and Revision of Existing…
Tools & Strategies for Engaging Remote Students in Your Physical Class (A Webinar Recording)
If you didn’t catch one of our synchronous workshops on including remote students in your physical class, we’ve got you covered! You can find a recording of the webinar below. During this session, we discussed: Definitions and principles for teaching remote and in-person students Concrete strategies for creating more equitable learning spaces for these types…
Happy Open Access Week 2020!
The theme for Open Access Week, October 19-25, is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Open Access allows for the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research and offers an alternative to a traditional subscription model that is costly and hidden behind a paywall. It has the potential to greatly accelerate the…
Writing and Publishing an Open Textbook
Are you considering creating an open textbook for a course? Ideal for online and traditional learning environments, open educational resources allow for faculty innovation while increasing student access and cost savings. There are many online tools available to guide the process and research support and curricular technology staff can assist in all steps of the…