Brown University Library has announced a call for participants for an NEH-funded Institute, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, hosted by the Library’s Digital Publications Initiative. Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps supports scholars who wish to pursue interpretive projects that require digital expression and are intended for publication by a scholarly press, but who lack resources and…
2022 Tool Updates – Flipgrid
During the long days of remote teaching and learning, many students and faculty relied on technology to introduce themselves and get to know one another. One of the most effective tools for meeting this goal was Flipgrid, a video-based discussion thread. Instructors successfully utilized Flipgrid as a means to facilitate deeper discussion and provide elevated…
2022 Tool Updates – Socrative
If you’ve attended a virtual meeting or event over the last two years (and, really, who hasn’t at this point?), you’ve almost certainly been subjected to any number of different digital, interactive polling tools. One of the most efficient and least onerous ways to increase engagement in a virtual event is by throwing a poll…
2022 Tool Updates – Kahoot!
Kahoot! has served as a popular gamification tool that makes assessments interactive, competitive, and fun. This tool allows instructors to create quiz games that can be played during a synchronous class to increase student engagement or completed asynchronously by individual students to check comprehension. Unfortunately, this tool update will highlight the new limitations that Kahoot…
2022 Tool Updates – Screencastify
In this era of virtual meetings, endless emails, and digital teaching and learning, it’s often just easier to show something on your computer screen than to try to type out an explanation. In these cases, a basic screen recorder is an invaluable asset, and Screencastify is one of the best. This free Google Chrome extension…
2022 Tool Update Series
As we enter another semester that calls for flexibility in the classroom, the Instructional Technology team continues to support and promote a number of digital tools that increase student engagement in different learning modalities. These tools are always updating and changing access to their features, and so we will be posting a series of tool…
Public Domain 2022: 400,000 audio recordings, Winnie-the-Pooh, and much more!
On January 1, 2022 hundreds of thousands published works entered the public domain. When works enter the public domain they are free for anyone to discover, download, share, and remix without copyright restrictions or limitations. This year’s Public Domain Day is especially notable because it includes over 400,000 sound recordings created before 1923. This long…
Zoom Smarter: All the Latest on Zoom Security
As the new semester begins (virtually!), we’d like to provide a quick round-up of all the latest Zoom security settings and features that are available for you to use in your classes, meetings or events. Enable Automatic Updates: Updating your Zoom software is important for keeping your security settings up-to-date, and will also provide you…
New Hypothesis Workshops
Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that is fully integrated with Moodle. Using Hypothesis, instructors can make PDFs and websites annotatable. Students can annotate course readings collaboratively, sharing comments and replying to peer’s comments. Join us for one or more of the following workshops to learn more about using Hypothesis to increase student engagement and create community…
Technology and Course Materials Preparation for Spring 2022
As we plan for a remote start to the semester, and the hiccups and disruptions that we now understand are part of teaching in COVID-times, the Research Support & Curricular Technology team is here to support you. Contact us at teachtech@conncoll.edu with your questions or to schedule an appointment. Zoom: Maybe it’s been awhile since…