If we have been quiet on the blog it can be attributed to the busy, final preparations to reopen Shain Library a full five months early! We are very excited to welcome everyone back into the building (it is lonely in here!) and share all the new and exciting changes. After break we will offer…
Category: Workshops
Amazing New Streaming Media Resources!
Last week we held the last Teaching with Technology workshop before Shain library reopens and we focus on new resources and services in the renovated building. The topic was new streaming media resources available through the library to the Connecticut College community. If you missed the workshop, here are the resources we covered: Kanopy and…
Workshop Recap: Students as Digital Content Creators
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterdays workshop, Students as Digital Content Creators: Benefits and Pitfalls of Multimedia Assignments. A special thank you goes to Karen Gonzalez Rice and Suzuko Knott for sharing their ideas and experiences (good and bad!). For anyone unable to attend, here is a brief summary of the event. The idea…
More Weatherproofing! Recap II
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…
Weatherproofing Workshop Recap I
Thanks to everyone who attended the Weatherproofing Your Class workshop yesterday! For anyone who couldn’t attend, here is the first of two posts with information from the workshop. This post will focus on our discussion, and tomorrow’s will focus on the technology. Communication with Students Because of the recent policy change regarding snow days and…
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…
DELI for Lunch – Reading Day Event Next Week!
Did you know that over 39 faculty and 1,900 students in 181 courses have participated in Instructional Technology’s Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI)? The DELI program provides digital devices to all students enrolled in an academic course when the devices will be used to enhance learning outcomes and/or increase student engagement. Our reading day Teaching…
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,…
Workshop Recap: Technology Fellows Curricular Innovations I
A special thank you to the Technology Fellows who presented at our event last week. I think each presenter deserves his/her own blog post because the projects presented were so different and interesting. Here’s the first recap. Ann Marie Davis (History) shared new assignments she is developing in collaboration with library, special collections, and…
Don’t Miss This!
Thank you for keeping up with the daily posts last week celebrating Open Access Week! We had a great time writing the posts and finding fun and informative materials to share. There is still much to explore on this topic… but we will take a break and focus on our upcoming workshop. On Wednesday, Ann…