Last week several librarians, instructional technologists, and faculty met virtually with a representative, Samantha Erickson, from the Wiki Education Foundation. This is the same organization that Ariella Rotramel and Andrea Lanoux worked with on their recent Wikipedia assignments. The meeting was inspirational! Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the world with content from…
Teaching with Technology Reading Group 2015-16 Recap
We held our first Teaching with Technology Reading Group last semester (Fall 2015) with Michelle D. Miller’s book Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014). The book catalysed discussions about such issues as how to handle disruptive or disengaged student behavior in the classroom as a result of spending too much time…
17th Annual Tempel Summer Institute
Tempel Summer Institute, our immersive one-week instructional technology program for faculty, ended over a week ago. While we weathered some unusual challenges – illness, broken bones and sprained ankles – it was a productive and fun week for all. Read on to hear some faculty participant comments, or click on the image above to relive the…
Three Strategies for Reducing E-mail-Related Stress
In a recent Technology Fellows meeting, the conversation turned to the topic of e-mail. Faculty in the room expressed frustration with the burden imposed by ever-increasing e-mail inboxes. For many, messages from students, administrators, committees, and peers pile up and create a crowded inbox, with hundreds of unread or unfiled e-mails. Here are a few…
Camp Teach & Learn Workshops and Discussions
As always, the sessions at Camp Teach & Learn look to be exciting and inspiring. We (Instructional Technology) are helping to organize the following workshops and discussions. When not facilitating one of these, we will be attending other sessions. We look forward to seeing you there! Improving Quality and Saving Time: Scaffolding Techniques for Digital Assignments from the…
Bringing together technology and experiential learning
I am always learning from my students. One day in my “Food and the Senses” class, students showed me a “Tasty” video (time-lapse videos of tasty dishes being cooked). I was immediately intrigued and hungry. Once the rumbling in my stomach subsided, I started to imagine the ways in which I could use a similar…
Beyond Pencil and Paper: Audio Assignments Via Moodle
My choir students expressed that they wanted to be assessed more often so that they would be more motivated to practice. At that time, I was having students sign up in small groups for “check in” meetings. While this was valuable, it was difficult to give individual feedback to all 40 students and could not…
Learning Architecture with Quizlet
One aspect of my Tech Fellows project has involved using Quizlet.com in two of my courses, AHI/ARC 103 CC: Building Culture and AHI 277: 20th Century Architecture and Design. Students in both of these classes take periodic “slide quizzes” in which I give them a list of 20 or so buildings to learn, memorize, and identify. In the…
Sharing stories, building community
Last Friday and Saturday Southern Connecticut State University held its 22nd Women’s Studies Conference, and a delegation from Connecticut College was there to represent! The conference theme – #FeministIn(ter)ventions: Women, Community, Technology – provided a perfect opportunity to share some of the technology-rich courses and projects that have been undertaken at the College, and to…
Refugees in Germany: Bringing Global Perspectives into the Classroom
One of the areas that I’m going to explore as a Technology Fellow is the use of videoconferencing tools in my course on the situation of the refugees in Europe (GER/GIS/GWS 262). This course explores the refugee crisis in Europe with a special focus on the case of Germany, where more than one million refugees…