The Learning & Applied Innovation Digital Garden – Page 2 – Planting Seeds to Grow Teaching and Learning at Colgate University

January 9, 2023

Pedagogy Podcasts

I first discovered podcasts about pedagogy in January 2021. In the dark winter days of working remotely before vaccines, I turned to podcasts about teaching when I was sick of sitting at my computer. I’d download a podcast to my phone, put on my headphones and go for a walk while listening. I don’t know if it was the podcasts...

Resources

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...

How-To/Learning/Resources

December 2, 2022

Open source: for more than just applications?

In looking around for some new stock footage with which I could teach, I rediscovered a concept I first encountered years ago: open source films. You might be familiar with open source projects, or the concept of open source. Many popular pieces of software are created, distributed, and maintained by using this principle: Firefox, VLC, Blender, and most of the...

Articles of Interest/Digital Life

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…

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…

How-To/Learning

November 1, 2022

Exploring the benefits of text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools

There are many situations where text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools can be very beneficial to you or someone you know. Text-to-speech technology reads text on your computer or mobile device out loud. You may find text-to-speech tools beneficial if you are experiencing eye strain from looking at the screen for too long or have low vision. People who are learning English...

How-To/Resources

October 31, 2022

Liquifying Faces and Other Adobe AI Fun

Adobe Sensei never ceases to amaze me. Over the past couple years, the Adobe backed AI research has had tremendous, practical implications on multiple creative applications. For those unaware, the strides are truly tremendous, and at times a bit scary. Take a look at the facial manipulation in Photoshop using the liquefy tool, or making things disappear with content aware...

Digital Life/Resources

October 24, 2022

UDL and Student Wellbeing

The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning provides some terrific resources. I was especially intrigued by the resource titled Wellbeing in Course Design which starts out stating that “faculty members play an important role in proactively supporting student wellbeing… and can help create the conditions that support wellbeing.” They follow with a list of best practices grouped into four...

Resources

October 21, 2022

Activity Design Ideas for Social Annotation and Hypothes.is

I previously posted a showcase of webpages annotated with Hypothes.is, ideas for Hypothes.is assignments, instructions for creating Hypothes.is enabled readings in Moodle and other resources for getting started with social annotation and Hypothes.is. However, those resources only go so far in creating effective and engaging social annotation experiences for students. Simply requiring students to “make annotations using Hypothes.is” may not...

Resources

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...

Digital Life/Learning