Becky Parmer, Archivist for Connecticut College, wrote the following post for our blog. Thank you, Becky! Historypin is a user-generated online archive that enables users to engage with history through digital storytelling. By overlaying or “pinning” photographs, documents, video, and audio recordings on Google Maps, users from around the world help create digital narratives of…
Literacy, Technology, and a 21st Century Curriculum
In my last post, I discussed some of my ideas for flipping the classroom in the Social Sciences/Humanities. In this post I turn to a different theme – literacy – which has surfaced as an important and recurring topic in the Technology Fellows Program (TFP) meetings. In fact, the topic has come up so often,…
Mapping Women’s Movements
Following up on our earlier post about Google Maps Engine Lite, Ariella Rotramel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, recently created a collaborative assignment using Google Maps in her Transnational Women’s Movements class last semester. The goal of the class project was to “help students explore a broader range of women’s movements beyond…
Mapping Fun with Google Maps Engine Lite
I like maps and I love exploring media rich interactive maps. In preparing this post, I spent far too much time exploring projects like Bomb Sight, Mapping the Long Women’s Movement, the New York City Graffiti & Street Art Project, Travelogue, or Visualizing Emancipation. It seems like there is now a multi-layer interactive map for just about…
Do we have Photoshop? Or, Computer Lab Software
Do we have SPSS? Photoshop? Audacity? iMovie? If you use, recommend, or require students to use a specific type of software, consult the Computer Labs Software page. This page lists all the software available in the computer labs that are open to all students, the Neff Lab and the PC Classroom. As a reminder, the…
Research on the Go: Conn College Libraries App
The Connecticut College Libraries App is now available! Download and install the free app on your Apple, Android, Windows, or Amazon device. The app is designed to connect you to research services and resources at any time from anywhere. Use the app to quickly find library hours, find the date and register for the next Teaching…
Lynda.com’s Top 10 at Conn
What are people learning in lynda? Here are the top 10 courses viewed by Connecticut College users in the past year: Excel 2013 Essential Training Up and Running with Audacity InDesign Essential Training GIT Essential Training Getting Started with Premiere Pro CS5 Access 2013 Essential Training Excel for Mac 2011 Essential Training Managing and Analyzing…
Presenting Syllabi and Course Assignments as Pages in Moodle
The semester approaches, and I can’t help but tinker with the design of my courses. I know better than to reinvent the wheel, and much good advice has been proffered with respect to the first rule of productivity: don’t fix what’s already working. Nevertheless, my inner (and somewhat pathological) perfectionist compels me to tweak. For…
DELI Proposals Due July 1
The Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI) is a program to provide classes with technologies intuitive to students to enhance the students’ learning. Students in participating classes have been provided with such technologies as iPods, iPads, digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital camcorders. Proposals are due July 1 for fall 2014 courses. If you wish…
On Blended Learning and Flipping the Classroom
This is a guest post written by Anthony P. Graesch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Technology Fellow. Representing the Faculty Technology Fellows Program at Connecticut College, I recently travelled with two colleagues to attend the 2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference hosted by Bryn Mawr College. The roster of presentations included 15 talks…
