Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
New Workshop Today: Tools & Strategies for Including Remote Students in your Physical Class
Are you grappling with the best methods for engaging your students who are in isolation or quarantine but well enough to participate in class? We have developed this workshop to share a wide variety of techniques and concrete strategies for including all students in class remotely and in-person, synchronously and asynchronously. We highly recommend this…
Using Omeka for Digital Collections + Omeka Workshop this Friday
In July, a project team including Digital Scholarship Fellow Ariella R. Rotramel, Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship Lyndsay Bratton, and Digital Scholarship Assistant Lydia Klein ‘22 attended the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship to focus on the oral history aspects of Rotramel’s Sexing Service project. Working with a liaison from Kenyon College, who has…
The Students Behind the Masks: Tech Tools for Meeting Your Students
The great experiment of remote teaching and learning may be starting to fade into our collective rearview mirrors, but many of the tech tools that you spent countless hours learning and deploying are still useful as we head back to in-person classes this week. For instance, many of the tools you leveraged last year to…
Hypothesis Workshop Wednesday
Our first workshop will take place on Wednesday both in-person and online. We will be demonstrating and using Hypothesis, a tool to make reading active, visible, and social within Moodle. Hypothesis brings discussion directly to your assigned readings by enabling students to add comments and start conversations in the margins. In this workshop, we will discuss…
Funding Available for Digital Projects
Following Monday’s post on services available in the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, we would like to spotlight the funding available through the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program. In collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the DSCC supports faculty scholarship involving digital tools and open publishing. Past and current projects include oral…
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
Moodle update for Fall 2021
It is still officially Summer, but Information Services has been busy getting ready for the fall semester! One of our recently completed projects is an upgrade of Moodle from version 3.8 to 3.10. This is a minor upgrade so you shouldn’t have any trouble making the transition, but you’ll find a few things of note…
OER Grant Information Session Friday!
Interested in applying for an OER Adoption grant? Join our information session Friday at 11am to learn what the grant is all about. Hear from previous grant recipients – Michelle Dunlap, Emily Kuder, Derek Turner, and Karolin Machtans – and have your questions answered. Register for more information including the Zoom link.
Memes: What they are & how to use them (responsibly)
Delia McCarthy was our library intern this semester. Thank you, Delia! Are you interested in learning more about memes and using them in your teaching? This blog post will explain the ins and outs of creating and utilizing memes in academic life based on a workshop I gave as part of my internship. You can…