Join us on Tuesday, September 17 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm in the Advanced Technology Lab for Google Assignments in Moodle. Google Assignments (formerly Course Kit) is a plugin for Moodle that facilitates assignment submission using Google Drive. Google Assignments integrates into Moodle to allow students to submit assignments and instructors to provide feedback using the…
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Test Drive Our New Overhead Book Scanner
Scan print publications quickly and easily with the library’s new 400dpi overhead book scanner. OCR the text to make it accessible for students. Export mp3 files that read the text aloud. The cropping feature enables you to select, crop and export images or text with the swipe of a finger. The new scanner should make…
Moodle (and more!) Drop-in
Monday, August 26 | 1:00-3:00pm | Advanced Technology Lab, Shain Library Are you ready for the new academic year? Need assistance setting up your gradebook? Quizzes? Class blog? Booking computer labs? Members of the Instructional Technology staff – including our new Instructional Technology Specialist! – will be available to answer questions on Moodle, WordPress, Computer…
Workshop Tomorrow: Digital Connecticut College
Join us at 3 p.m. tomorrow, March 6, in the Advanced Technology Lab in Shain Library to learn how to make your own website using our new service, Digital Connecticut College. Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to register a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums…
Introducing Google Course Kit
Students have long been taking advantage of the college’s access to Google Drive for completing course work. Assignments completed in Google Drive, however, could not be easily submitted as assignments…until now. Google has introduced a new plug-in for Moodle that streamlines the submission of student assignments completed using Google Drive. The plug-in allows students to…
Google Course Kit: Workshop Tomorrow!
Do you use Moodle? Do your students use (or want to use) Google Drive for coursework? Google has recently introduced Course Kit, a plugin for Moodle that facilitates assignment submission using Google Drive. Course Kit seamlessly integrates into Moodle allowing students to submit assignments in Drive, and allowing instructors to provide feedback using Google Drive…
Collaborative Reading Online: Workshop Monday!
Are your students reading course materials on laptops or other devices? Online annotation tools can support students’ close reading of texts in an online environment. These same tools can be used to support collaborative reading where students add annotations, questions, and discussion directly on the texts themselves! Intentional use of social annotation tools make texts…
Technologies for Teaching & Research Workshops 2019
Time to add our workshops to your calendar! You can find the full list of workshops online and find a print copy in your mailbox. All workshops are open to faculty and staff. Registration is recommended, but is not required so stop by if you schedule allows. Refreshments are served! Creating Online Coursepacks – Register Monday, February…
Introducing “Digital Connecticut College”
Yesterday we held a workshop to introduce Digital Connecticut College. Thanks to everyone who attended! What is Digital Connecticut College? Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to register a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums such as blogs, portfolios, and wikis. You can easily install open source applications…
Open Access Week 2018
Every year in October we celebrate Open Access Week, an international celebration of everything open. If this doesn’t sound familiar, read up on the topic through the (brief!) blog posts we published in previous years: What is Open Access Impact of Open Access Local to Global Open Access Is Your Work Still Yours? Teaching Open…