Connecticut College is a member of ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research), a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. In this post, Anrdrew Lopez walks us through one scenario…
Category: Workshops
Next week is data week!
Next week we are offering two data-related workshops: Working with Data Across the Curriculum and Intro to Data Visualization Tools. Whether you use data in your own research, ask students to use data, or are interested in exploring ways to easily incorporate quantitative exercises into your courses, please join us! Working with Data Across the…
Workshop Recap: Teaching with Twitter
Faculty are using Twitter in very interesting and exciting ways in their classes! This was the major takeaway from our Twitter for Teaching workshop last Friday afternoon. We asked each of our four discussants to discuss three aspects of their Twitter experience: pedagogy, assessment and organization. Here is a very brief summary of how each…
Today at 1:15 PM: Twitter for Teaching
Join us TODAY for our second Teaching with Technology event, Teaching with Twitter. Hear from four colleagues who are using Twitter in exciting ways: Steve Luber (Theater), Ariella Rotramel (Gender and Women’s Studies), Luis Gonzalez (Hispanic Studies), and Hisae Kobayashi (East Asian Languages & Cultures). We will be meeting in the Haines Room, Shain Library…
Are students #TextbookBroke?
With the rising costs of textbooks (3 times the rate of inflation or over 1000% since 1977), more students choose not to or are simply unable to purchase them. You are probably aware of this phenomenon from recent articles in the Chronicle, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, NBC, or from the hashtag…
Workshop Your Assignments with Us on Thursday!
We haven’t even had a full week of classes, but our first Teaching with Technology event is happening this Thursday! The timing is deliberate because we’ll be workshopping this semester’s assignments together. If you are incorporating technology into an assignment, new or old, join us in the Haines Room on September 10th from 10:30-11:30. Coffee,…
Sign up for our Reading Group!
We are excited to hold our first ever reading group! We will be reading Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology this semester and invite you to discuss the book with us over lunch. Minds Online is “an outstanding new book…for truly effective teaching with technology” (Chronicle of Higher Education). Participation is limited to 10 faculty and…
Fall 2015 Workshops & Special Events
Planning your semester? Add these dates to your calendar! This is a list of instructional technology events open to faculty and staff. Find more information, including registration forms, by clicking on the workshop titles. Thursday, September 10, 10:30-11:30 Workshop Your Technology Assignments Haines Room, Second Floor, Shain Library Friday, September 18, 1:15-2:30 Twitter for Teaching…
What happened at Tempel Summer Institute?
We hosted the 16th annual Tempel Summer Institute last week. It was a great week devoted to solving pedagogical problems through technology and exploring new technologies to improve student engagement and learning. We had some great discussions, experienced many ah-ha moments, ate lots of dessert, experimented with new technologies, revised existing courses and worked on…
Join us for Wednesdays at the Wall
Announcing a new short series of workshops from the Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center in Shain Library! These informal workshops will introduce attendees to the Diane Y. Williams ’59 Visualization Wall in the Technology Commons of Shain. Participants will have the opportunity to see how professors from Computer Science, Gender and Women’s Studies, Arts &…