Thank you to yesterday’s presenters, Hisae Kobayashi, Joe Schroeder, Andrea Lanoux, and Jason Jones (Director of Educational Technology, Trinity College), at the Teaching with Technology event, Expand Your Classroom through Inter-Campus Collaborations. I personally left feeling very excited about the possibilities that videoconferencing technology affords our students. Here is a short summary of the event…
Category: Workshops
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),…
Workshop Wednesday: Student Response Systems
Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems, such as Poll Everywhere, Socrative, and clickers, allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. During this workshop, Joe Schroeder, Jenny Fredericks, and Page Owen will discuss their use…
Camp Teach & Learn Instructional Technology Related Sessions
We are very excited to be a part of this year’s Camp Teach & Learn. Here are some sessions related to instructional technology – hope to see you there! Reading Group: Teaching Naked Tuesday, May 20, 8:30 – 10:30 Didn’t read the book? Feel free to come anyway. We’ll be discussing Jose Antonio Bowen’s (President…
Tempel Summer Institute: Call for Proposals
Send your proposal to participate in this year’s Tempel Summer Institute! The Institute, in its 14th year, will take place June 2-6 in Shain Library from 9:00am – 4:00pm each day. The program’s focus is improving pedagogy through technology, and includes hands-on instruction sessions, group discussion of learning goals and pedagogy, small group breakout sessions, and…
Flipped Classroom: Recording Your Lectures Workshop
We had a great turnout for our workshop, Flipped Classroom: Recording Your Lectures. We started by introducing the idea of a flipped classroom, which in its simplest terms is providing prerecorded lectures to your students outside of class time and using class time for hands-on assignments, discussion, and other activities. Focusing on the positive aspects…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Teaching with iPads
Last Friday we met to discuss and show ways to use an iPad in the classroom. We focused on apps that help display content, integrate media, and create interactive learning activities. Here is a summary of the uses we discussed and the recommended apps we showed. Projecting with your iPad Adapters: piece of hardware that…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps
We had a great Teaching with Technology workshop yesterday, “You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps.” Thanks to all who attended! If you were unable to attend but are interested in what we discussed, you can find the list of topics below. The workshop was divided into three areas: ebooks, mobile apps for research,…
What to expect in 2014 from Instructional Technology
Happy New Year! The Chronicle rounded up 5 educational technology experts and asked them what we should expect in 2014. You can read the article here. What are we planning on for 2014 at Connecticut College? This year will be an exciting one as we plan for the renovation of Shain library, and we plan…