We are very excited for our next Teaching with Technology workshops and hope you can join us! We promise you will leave these workshops inspired and excited to try new tools in the classroom and in your own research. Also, don’t forget we are hosting the Data Fair this week in Shain Library! Wikipedia Assignments for Developing…
Using a Course Website to Recruit Incoming Students and Promote Community Engagement
I have the happy challenge of needing to communicate with students over the summer. Most of them are incoming first-year students or transfer students who are trying to decide how they will spend their time at Connecticut College. This means quite a few questions regarding the types of choral ensembles that we offer, how often…
Active Engagement and Group Work at the Visualization Wall
The Diane Y. Williams ’59 Visualization Wall in the Technology Commons of Shain Library offers new possibilities for group work and classroom engagement. With just a few clicks on one’s own smartphone, tablet, or laptop, the wall wirelessly displays up to five devices at once. Biology Professor Martha Grossel used the Visualization Wall weekly for…
Data Fair September 26-29!
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. We have written about this amazing resource on the blog,…
September Teaching with Technology Productivity Workshops
The first two workshops in September focus on productivity. We will spend time organizing and developing new strategies to keep our email and Drive from overwhelming us, allowing us to focus on more important tasks. Registration is recommended (food is provided), but not necessary. Please join us! Take Control of Your Google Drive Monday, September…
Help Students Out: Syllabi as PDF or Google Drive Link
Do you upload your syllabus to Moodle? Is it a Word document? A Pages document? You may not realize it, but there are students who do not have these programs on their computers. Already I have spoken with two students who do not have Microsoft Word (or PowerPoint, or Excel…), but they must access syllabi…
Announcing Fall 2016 Reading Group – Join Us!
We are excited to announce that this semester’s reading group book is Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field (2015) by Julie Thompson Klein. Looking back over 65 years of scholarship, Interdisciplining Digital Humanities provides an overview of definitions and practices in the emerging field of digital humanities. As the library ramps up efforts to…
Using Twitter to Sharpen Literacies and Engage in Global Conversations
In my previous blog post, I talked about videoconferences as a way to integrate global perspectives into my refugees course. Another tool to encourage students to apply their knowledge by engaging in a global dialogue was the use of Twitter. Students were asked to tweet five times a week, using the hash tag #GER262. During…
MIT OpenCourseware for Course Inspiration
During a recent consultation with a faculty member where we explored affordable online resources for a new Conn Course, I shared related course materials available through the MIT OpenCourseware website. If you are developing a new course, looking for inspiration to update an old one, or trying to incorporate different disciplinary approaches and content, MIT Open…
Back to School Basics Online Workshop Tuesday, August 23
Welcome back! We had a productive summer and are very excited to begin a new academic year. Are you ready for classes? Whether you are on campus or still traveling, we invite you to join us online for our Back to School Basics workshop. In this virtual workshop we will cover essential elements of preparing…