Employing technology in the classroom can shorten distances; this semester student researchers into topics of sustainability and social justice enrolled in SRS/HIS/CRE299 History and Cases of Equality interacted through Skype with counterparts in California, Illinois, Washington, D.C., Peru, and Mexico. Alumni in each location described how they came to engage in social justice research while…
Results from #CCjpn201: A Semester-Long Twitter Project
My project was to have my JPN201 students communicate with college/ university students in Japan through Twitter for 13 weeks during the fall of 2015. This project challenged not only students but also myself. My students were asked to find out Japanese college/ university students’ lives. We ended this project by presenting each student’s discovery in class. Each student…
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
Making Global Connections and the Digital Divide
Classroom technology can widen the digital divide and strengthen language barriers and socio-economic inequality. This can happen if we expect all students to have smartphones to complete an assignment, if we expect the classrooms and students that we connect with abroad to speak English, if we assume everyone has internet access, and if we do…
Web Conferencing Kits now available!
Wishing you could bring an expert into your class? Our Web Conferencing Kits make connecting with guest speakers, colleagues, students – anyone – easier than ever. The kits, available to faculty from the Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC), support web conferencing through Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and FaceTime. Each kit contains: one 1080P webcam…
Today! “It’s 5 PM Somewhere” Information Session
Recently a call for participation circulated for the Technology Fellows Program (TFP). The TFP is a rewarding opportunity to reflect on teaching and learning in a community of learners that includes faculty and staff across the College. Fostering deep partnerships between faculty and instructional technologists, the program explores how faculty can use novel and innovative digital…
My Lynda Playlist
New courses are added daily to Lynda.com. I subscribed to the lynda.com email list to keep updated on the latest and greatest (if you’re interested, you can subscribe, too!). I now have a running list of courses that interest me saved in a playlist. Once the semester winds down, I plan on visiting my playlist…
Guidelines for Student Photographs
I have been developing a series of workshops using Legos for AHI/ARC 103 CC: Building Culture, which I will teach this spring. During the workshops, groups of students will make a series of small architectural models using Legos and photograph their work to share it with the rest of the students in the course. In…
Video, Images, and Music, Oh My! Library Resources for Teaching
You may have noticed that this blog has been silent for a few weeks. This partly has to do with the Thanksgiving break and workload at this time in the semester, but also to the huge amount of information I want to share – I am overwhelmed at the thought of writing (and asking you…
Digital Storytelling Tools: TimelineJS
Following up on an October Teaching with Technology workshop and a recent post on StoryMapJS, today I will introduce TimelineJS–another product of Northwestern University’s Knight Lab. This tool allows users to plot narrative content along an interactive timeline, with text, images, maps, video, and audio files embedded in a slideshow above. Users can click through…