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…
Category: Workshops
Last Chance to Register for Spring Learning Community: AI for Teaching and Learning
Don’t forget to register if you are able to join us this semester! Meeting details will be shared with registrants no later than Wednesday, January 24. Generative AI for Teaching and Learning: A Faculty Learning CommunityTuesdays, 2:30 – 4:00 pmJanuary 30, February 27, March 26, April 30, May 14 This faculty learning community, sponsored by…
Faculty Spring Learning Community: AI for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Research Support & Curricular Technology team invites you to join a semester-long faculty learning community on Generative AI for Teaching and Learning. We are asking participants to commit to attending all five meetings. If you are interested, please read the description below and complete the linked form…
Announcing CT Digital Scholarship Exchange Workshops
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce interested faculty to different digital scholarship approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Fall Workshop…
Hypothesis Summer Workshops
Hypothesis is the social reading/collaborative annotation tool that can be added as an activity to your Moodle site. Register for the following summer workshops to learn how you can use Hypothesis for class assignments. If you are new to Hypothesis, please email Ariela McCaffrey for an overview of adding the activity to your Moodle site….
Textbook Costs and Student Equity
On Tuesday, April 18 Information Services hosted a lunch presentation, Textbook Costs and Student Equity. We were thrilled to have over 20 faculty and staff attend. The purpose of the lunch was threefold. First, we presented the results of the Fall 2022 student textbook survey in which we partnered with ten other liberal arts colleges…
Critical Instructional Design Reading Group Halftime Report
By Group Co-Facilitators Kate Bengtson and Karen Pezzetti The Critical Instructional Design Reading Group that we announced back in February has met twice, marking the halfway point for this project which was funded by a grant from the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE). This milestone seems an opportune moment to…
Engage Students with Wikipedia Editing Projects
Looking for a new assignment idea that empowers your students to contribute to public scholarship while honing their research and writing skills? Join us to learn about leveraging open pedagogical practices through Wikipedia editing assignments. Professor Ariella Rotramel will share their scaffolding strategies and past experience using the support services offered through the Wiki Education…
Sign Up Today for Our Critical Instructional Design Reading Group!
The Instructional Technology Team is excited to announce the formation of a Reading Group focused on Compassionate and Critical Learning Design! This group will convene four times in the Spring 2023 semester to discuss essays from two anthologies compiled by Hybrid Pedagogy, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing critical digital pedagogy. Faculty and staff from…
Love Data Week!
Welcome to Love Data Week! Be sure to check out the Love Data Week Guide for resources, activities and challenges. We’ll also be sharing a few Engage posts on issues surrounding the theme of data as an agent of change. Today’s post looks at the relationship between data literacy and data justice. Data literacy is…