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

February 2, 2023

Accessible AND Inclusive Course Documents

I recently read an Association for Talent Development article, Should Our Learning Content be Accessible or Inclusive? What caught my attention in the article was the analogy the author, Susi Miller, used for describing the difference between accessible and inclusive. “…a person who uses a wheelchair [is] having a meal out with friends. When they arrive together at the restaurant,...

How-To/Teaching

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...

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...

Digital Life/Learning

January 16, 2023

Time Saving Features coming with Moodle v4

Our usual Moodle summer upgrade will bring time-saving and usability enhancements when Moodle 4 is implemented in early June 2023. While at first glance, Moodle 4 looks quite different from our current version, 3.11, all current functionality has been retained and the benefits realized with the new enhancements will more than offset the time spent adjusting to the new interface....

How-To/Resources

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...

Articles of Interest/Events/Learning

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