The Learning & Applied Innovation Digital Garden – Page 3 – Planting Seeds to Grow Teaching and Learning at Colgate University

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

October 17, 2022

Getting Started with Social Annotation and Hypothes.is

Social annotation enables multiple people to collaboratively annotate an article found on the web. Many Colgate faculty have adopted the tool Hypothes.is to integrate social annotation into their course readings. Here is a curated a list of resources to guide faculty in getting started with social annotation and Hypothes.is. Example Annotated Articles It may be helpful to see examples of...

Resources

October 14, 2022

Google Docs and Accessibility

Google Docs can create accessibility barriers for some users. The people most affected by the limitations of Google Docs are people who use screen reader technology. People who are blind and people who have a significant visual disability often use screen readers which use computer-generated speech to read aloud the text on the screen and unique keyboard combinations to navigate...

How-To

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...

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...

Learning

September 29, 2022

Think of UDL as a Learning Buffet

CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization, created the Universal Design for Learning framework in the 1980s. CAST’s mission is to transform education design and practice until learning has no limits. CAST.org I’ve been reading and learning about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for many years and have often found it difficult to explain UDL to others. I recently...

Learning/Resources

September 27, 2022

Schedule your email for a better time

An email is an immediate form of communication, but you do not have to send the emails you compose as soon as you write them. Scheduling your emails allows you to compose messages on your own time and at your own pace. We like this when we’re getting things done after work hours and want to save our reply for...

How-To/Learning

September 27, 2022

What is “Confidential Mode” in Gmail?

Working in “Confidential Mode” allows you to send emails with sensitive information with a higher level of protection. Emails sent in confidential mode can’t be forwarded, and you can choose whether to require a recipient to use a passcode to read it. To send an email in confidential mode, click the icon that looks like a lock at the text...

How-To/Learning

September 26, 2022

Choose your preferred document format using SensusAccess

SensusAccess is a self-service, web-based tool that automatically converts documents into a range of alternative formats including MP3 audio, searchable PDF, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, RTF and digital Braille. Anyone with a Colgate.edu email address can use SensusAccess to convert documents into these alternative, accessible formats. SensusAccess was implemented at Colgate in the summer of 2021. Since then, use has increased...

Resources

September 21, 2022

Resurrecting the Podcast as an Engaging Assignment Option

Lately in the DLMC we’ve been diving back into sound recording conversations. Working with faculty, fellow staff, and the Media Mentor student staff, capturing sound has been the focus of multiple folks, and not just for film! Podcasts have resurfaced as a teaching tool that provides a valuable set of skills for students and offers a different form of assessment...

Learning/Resources