Category: Learning

August 14, 2023

“White Snow, Yellow Snow” and Crumpled Paper. New Ideas for Class Discussion

I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday, and I heard a wonderful story about ways to invite introverted students to share their thinking in class. As an introvert myself, I appreciated these discussion strategies to make space for students who don’t feel comfortable speaking up in class. This piece focused on a 9th-grade classroom, but I think the...

Categories Articles of Interest/How-To/Learning

February 1, 2023

Here Comes chatGPT…Paradigm Shift or Higher Ed Hype Cycle?

With the start of the Spring 2023 semester, educators from K-12 through university were greeted with a barrage of headlines like those below announcing the arrival of chatGPT… “Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?” “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach” “ChatGPT is coming for classrooms. Don’t panic” “ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools” The...

Categories Digital Life/Learning/Teaching

January 30, 2023

3 Useful Features of Panopto

If you’re not familiar, Panopto is a dedicated video platform that has a robust set of features to aid in teaching and learning.  It’s a generally great tool, and as a video delivery service, it works exceedingly well.  That said, there’s a lot more to Panopto than just a ‘YouTube for college campuses.’  Taking a dive into the features, here...

Categories Digital Life/Learning

January 13, 2023

Design Daze

As we prepare for the start of the Spring semester, I’ve been busy preparing for the launch of Design Daze here in the Digital Learning and Media Center (DLMC).  Digital Design Daze are 90 minute workshops aimed at helping take a project from concept to prototype using digital tools that we have access to at Colgate.  Some workshops will help...

Categories Articles of Interest/Events/Learning

January 6, 2023

Feed Your Brain with LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is a resource provided to the entire Colgate Community of faculty, staff, and students. It is a professional development platform that offers a wide range of online courses and video tutorials to help individuals learn new skills and advance their careers in various subjects, including business, technology, and creative skills. LinkedIn Learning enables you to be self-directed and...

Categories How-To/Learning/Resources

December 1, 2022

Stars in your eyes

If you want to find an email in your Gmail or a document in your Google Drive easily, try Starring the item! Read on…

Categories How-To/Learning

November 30, 2022

Wait! I didn’t mean to close that tab…

If you like keyboard shortcuts, you probably know the most common ones like CTRL+Z for Undo and CTRL+P for Print for the PC or CMD+Z for Undo and CMD+P for Print for the MAC, but did you know there was a keyboard shortcut to open the last browser tab that you closed? Read on…

Categories How-To/Learning

October 20, 2022

Give me some Slack…

Give me some Slack! Well…maybe not.  In a podcast I listened to recently, Ezra Klein interviews Cal Newport, and the ideas they discuss about the evolving nature of work and communication are fascinating. Newport, who is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown, traces an historical arc of workplace communication from email through Slack, and in the process introduces...

Categories Digital Life/Learning

October 4, 2022

Quick Wins Using Adobe Express

Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) is a free, low barrier to entry tool that anyone can use.  Registering for a free account using any of a number of quick sign-up options allows anyone to quickly spin up projects that autosave, and are accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.  There are a number of great things to say...

Categories Learning/Resources

September 30, 2022

Social Annotation for Scientific Articles

Social annotation technology enables students and instructors to collaboratively add notes, images, media and other annotations to the margins of a reading. Annotations can be seen, read and commented on by all members of the course. Social annotation can transform reading into a collaborative activity, make students’ thinking visible and enhance students’ comprehension of readings (see Kalir et al. 2020...

Categories Learning