Do you miss campus – chatting in person with your advisees, grabbing a drink from the Blue Camel with a colleague? Are you tired of the distractions of home, or dealing with flaky internet? We have a solution! Media Services has created two temporary remote teaching spaces so you can teach remotely from campus. For…
Open Education Week 2021
Happy Open Education Week! An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide. Here at Connecticut College, faculty members saved students thousands of dollars by moving to open educational resources for their courses. Read about the latest round of OER…
Zoom Feature: Immersive PowerPoint
A new Zoom feature some may have noticed is “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” This feature, in Beta, overlays the speaker’s video feed onto a PowerPoint presentation and places PowerPoint controls within Zoom (advance slide, etc): To use this feature, select “Advanced” from the Screen Share menu, then “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” You’ll then be prompted…
Zoom Feature: Captions
We are excited to announce that Zoom has made closed captioning available to all licensed Connecticut College users! This means that you can enable machine-generated captions or live transcripts for your Zoom meetings and online classes, and your participants can choose to make those features visible on their individual views. We highly encourage all meeting…
Upcoming (Virtual & Free!) OER Conferences
The CT OER Coordinating Council announced the 2nd annual CT OER Summit, “a virtual event spanning four days designed for faculty to learn how to implement OER, discipline-specific case studies, and the concepts of Open Pedagogy.” The Summit takes place Monday, March 1 through Thursday, March 4, 12:00 – 3:00pm each day. The full schedule and registration is…
Hypothesis Workshops
Interested in learning more about social annotation and Hypothesis? Learn to use this online tool designed to allow for online collaborative annotation in their upcoming workshops. Let us know if you register and we will join you! Implementing social annotation with Hypothesis in your courses This workshop will focus on creating a supportive and scaffolded…
Curricular Technology February Office Hours
The Curricular Technology team will hold virtual office hours throughout February. Visit our appointment calendar and select the time you wish to “stop by.” Include any specific technologies or problems in the description so that we can prepare for our meeting. Our team continues to be available for individual appointments to answer questions, troubleshoot, select…
Announcing the Connecticut Digital Humanities 2021 Virtual Conference
The second annual Connecticut Digital Humanities conference will be held virtually across Fridays in February 2021. The schedule is available, and registration is open! We hope you will join us for talks by faculty, librarians, and students from across the Northeast about digital humanities in the classroom, teaching and student engagement during COVID-19, digital archives,…
Zoom Feature: Sharing a Portion of Your Screen
Now that we are almost a full year into online teaching and learning, we are all very familiar with sharing our screen during the course of a class, meeting, or virtual presentation. It is second nature for us to share our entire screen or a single application during our many Zoom sessions. But did you…
Connecticut OER Grants Available
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the Open Educational Resources water? Curious to know what’s out there in your discipline and want to be compensated for reviewing OER material? Or maybe you recently decided to use OER in an upcoming course. The Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council announced the second round of…