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Segue’s Decommissioning, Course Hub, and Curricular Technology Workshops

Joseph Antonioli — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:52:46 +0000

Segue’s decommissioning will culminate on Friday August 31st, 2012 when Segue is taken offline. In preparation for this deadline, as of January 1st, 2012, faculty will no longer be able to create Segue websites. We recommend that all new sites be created in either Moodle or WordPress. Segue migration workshops will begin in Winter Term and continue into the Spring and Summer 2012 semesters.

Our curricular web tools can be found via the Course Hub, a starting point for access to online resources. From the Course Hub instructors can create sites in Moodle and WordPress as well as make links to ERES and resources around the Internet.

Options for Migration and Archiving

Segue site owners are encouraged to migrate sites they wish to continue working with to Moodle, WordPress or ERES. LIS has tools and workshops for assisting with migration, and can help you archive sites.

If you need help deciding platform best fits your pedagogical needs, please contact your liaison.

Segue Migration Workshops

The Curricular Technology team will provide a number of workshops and work sessions to help faculty migrate from Segue.

Segue Migration Sessions

These sessions will be focused on migrating Segue sites to other platforms.

1-2 pm, Tues, Jan 10th, Library 105 (sign up)
2-3 pm, Wed, Jan 11th, Library 105 (sign up)
1-2 pm, Wed, Jan 18th, Library 105 (sign up)

Curricular Technology Work Sessions

These sessions will be open work sessions where faculty can get support for any curricular use of technology including using Moodle and WordPress and also migrating Segue sites

2-3 pm, Jan 12th, Library 105 (sign up)
3-4 pm, Jan 19th, Library 105 (sign up)
11 am-12 pm, Jan 24th, Library 105 (sign up)
2-3 pm, Jan 26th, Library 105 (sign up)

Introduction to Moodle Workshops – Prepare your courses for the Spring Semester

These workshops will give an overview of Moodle for faculty interested in migrating their Segue sites to Moodle

3-4pm, Jan 11th, Library 105 (sign up)
2-3pm, Jan 18th, Library 105 (sign up)

Introduction to WordPress Workshops – Prepare your courses for the Spring Semester

These workshops will give an overview of WordPress for faculty interested in migrating their Segue sites to WordPress

4-5pm, Jan 11th, Library 105 (sign up)
4-5pm, Jan 18th, Library 105 (sign up)

If these dates/times are not convenient for you, please contact your liaison, who may be able to provide you with enough information to get you started via a phone call or a house call to your office.

Curricular Technology J-term Workshops for Faculty

Alex Chapin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:09:06 +0000

LIS Technologists and Liaisons will be offering more workshop in J-term on Moodle and WordPress, as well as general technology work sessions where faculty can get assistance on using any platform supported by LIS. There will also be workshops on migrating Segue sites to these other platforms. For more information, see: Segue from Segue > Workshops

LMS Evaluation Updates

Alex Chapin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:27:18 +0000

The Curricular Technology Team in collaboration with Shel Sax and academic liaisons has organized a number of learning management system (LMS) training workshops, see:
Segue from Segue > LMS Pilot Training Sessions

CTLR LMS Roundtable discussion

The first workshop in the 6th annual CTLR Pedagogy Series was a discussion of LMS platforms lead by Mary Ellen Bertolini, Jason Mittell and Louisa Burnham. Online discussion, assignments and grading were all hot topics.

Sakai Overview and Training

Yesterday, Scott Siddall from Longsight, an open source service provider, lead a day long training session in Sakai. A number of faculty have agreed to pilot Sakai this spring and attended the afternoon session to get an overview of the platform and hands-on training. There will be more training sessions next week. Here are dates:

10 – 11:30 am, Tuesday, Jan 18th, Library 105 – Shel Sax
2 – 3:30 pm, Thursday, Jan 20th, Library 105 – Shel Sax

Moodle Overview and Training

Tomorrow and Friday, I’ll lead a workshop on Moodle, providing an overview of this LMS platform and then hands-on training for faculty who have agreed to pilot it. Here is schedule:

2 – 3:30 pm, Thursday, January 13, Library 105 – Alex Chapin
2 – 3:30 pm, Friday, January 14, Library 105 – Alex Chapin

While all of these training sessions are primarily for pilot participants, other faculty and staff are encouraged to attend at least the first part of these sessions where we’ll give an overview of the platforms and their distinguishing characteristics.

Segue from Segue Updates

Alex Chapin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:11:03 +0000

The Curricular Technology Team is pleased to announce that its primary recommendations for how to segue from Segue has been approved by the Library and Information Services (LIS) Area Directors Team. In essence, the team recommended the development of a “course hub” architecture that would enable faculty to create collections of resources for a given course using a variety of platforms that would be aggregated in a single location referred to as a “hub.” For more information, see:
Segue from Segue > Course Hub

The team is now researching which platforms to include within the course hub. WordPress and MediaWiki are obvious choices since many faculty are already using these for course sites. The team also recognizes that some sort of learning management system (LMS) should also be an integral part of hub sites and is reviewing a number of LMS to present to the community as possible candidates.

Segue from Segue Open Sessions

Alex Chapin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:27:26 +0000

The Curricular Technology team has scheduled a number of open sessions next week on the Segue from Segue project in Library 145. Here are the dates and times:

10:00 – 10:30, Monday August 2nd
1:00 – 1:30, Tuesday, August 3th
4:00 – 4:30, Wednesday, August 4th
3:00 – 3:30, Thursday, August 5th

We scheduled these sessions primarily to give Language School faculty an opportunity to discuss their technology needs and ask us questions about possible alternatives to Segue. That said, these sessions are open to any Middlebury faculty, staff or students interested in technologies for teaching, learning and research.

Faculty Innovators Tell Us What They Need

Alex Chapin — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:27:00 +0000

Our first priority with the Segue from Segue project is to make sure there are technology solutions available to meet the needs of as many faculty, students and staff as possible. That said, we would like to also be able to support innovative uses of technology, particularly those innovations that may eventually be useful to the broader community.

To this end, the Curricular Technology team invited a number of faculty who are innovators to show us how they have been using technology and tell us what they need. Faculty who participated included Jeff Byers (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Hector Vila (CTLR), Enrique Garcia (Spanish), Hope Tucker (Film and Media Culture) and Roberto Veguez (Spanish). A number of academic liaisons also participated in this session. To learn more about what these faculty have been doing, see:

Segue from Segue » Presentations by Faculty Innovators

Functional Requirements for Segue Replacements

Alex Chapin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:12:53 +0000

The Curricular Technology Team has drafted a list of the functional requirements for any platform or collection of platforms that would replace Segue, see:

Segue from Segue » Functional Requirements for Segue Replacements

If there are features or functionality in Segue that we have left out in this list, please let us know.

Segue from Segue: Focus Groups Sessions

Alex Chapin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:47 +0000

The Curricular Technology team in consultation with the Faculty LIS Advisory Committee has organized a number of curricular technology focus group sessions for faculty. The goal of these focus groups is to understand how faculty teach and how they use the technologies currently available to them at Middlebury and beyond.

To ensure focus group discussions are manageable and productive, each session will be limited to 8-10 participants and session registration is required. For more information, as well as a link to the session registration form, see:

Segue from Segue > Focus Group Sessions

Segue from Segue Usage Analysis: Language Learning Resources

Alex Chapin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:10:46 +0000

Part of the Segue from Segue project involves analyzing how faculty and students at Middlebury have used technology for teaching, learning and research. Last week, I published an overview of Segue Usage. This week I have compiled notes on my review of curricular resources that the Language Schools and departments have developed with Segue and other tools, see:

Segue from Segue > Language Learning Resources.

Segue from Segue Update

Alex Chapin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:02:11 +0000

The Curricular Technology team, in consultation with the Faculty LIS Advisory Committee (FLAC) and the Area Directors, is defining topics and questions for curricular technology focus group sessions which will be scheduled over the next month.

To better understand how faculty and students use technology for teaching, learning and research, I’ve been reviewing the many course sites and curricular resources that have been developed over the years at Middlebury in Segue and other platforms. I’ve posted to the Segue from Segue blog an overview of Segue usage, see: Segue from Segue > Segue Usage Analysis. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting more usage analyses.