As we plan for a remote start to the semester, and the hiccups and disruptions that we now understand are part of teaching in COVID-times, the Research Support & Curricular Technology team is here to support you. Contact us at teachtech@conncoll.edu with your questions or to schedule an appointment. Zoom: Maybe it’s been awhile since…
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Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
Join Us in the Virtual International Exchange Leadership Institute
Are you interested in investigating how Connecticut College could continue to harness the power of technology to expand virtual global learning opportunities for students in the post-pandemic era? If so, please consider joining Amy Dooling and me as a third team member at the upcoming 2021 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Virtual Exchange Leadership Institute!…
Teach Remotely…. from Campus!
Do you miss campus – chatting in person with your advisees, grabbing a drink from the Blue Camel with a colleague? Are you tired of the distractions of home, or dealing with flaky internet? We have a solution! Media Services has created two temporary remote teaching spaces so you can teach remotely from campus. For…
Zoom Feature: Sharing a Portion of Your Screen
Now that we are almost a full year into online teaching and learning, we are all very familiar with sharing our screen during the course of a class, meeting, or virtual presentation. It is second nature for us to share our entire screen or a single application during our many Zoom sessions. But did you…
New Zoom Feature: Co-host and Breakout Rooms
As of last week, Zoom introduced a new feature we know some of you will be very excited about. Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host! This means that any named co-host in a Zoom Meeting can start Breakout Rooms, assign attendees to them, and visit them. Note that hosts…
Upping Your Zoom Game: Breakout Room Note Taking
We’re about halfway through the semester (and close to the start of Module 2!), so it’s the perfect time to try shaking up some strategies for your Zoom sessions! If breakout rooms have been a key part of your online class, collaborative note taking in Google Slides might be a good way to up your…
Upping Your Zoom Game: Self-Selecting Breakouts and Reordering Participants
On September 28th, Zoom rolled out a shiny new update that includes several features that will help you optimize the online teaching and learning experience for your students. These are features that were highly sought after in the summer – you asked, and Zoom listened! A word of caution before continuing: In order for some…
Move to Online Teaching & Learning
We took a break from writing on the blog during the transition from in-person to online teaching and learning. Not all faculty receive our posts, and we what we had to share was important enough to send to all faculty. We were also very busy! We created and updated documentation while developing an online guide…
Weatherproofing Workshop Recap
*This post was scheduled for later in the day, but we are publishing it now due to the weather! Did you miss the weatherproofing workshop last week? We focused on three types of activities you can do with your students if you are unable to attend class. Here are just a few ideas we shared….
