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Curricular Technology J-term Workshops for Faculty

Alex Chapin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:09:06 +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

Segue Migration and Technology Work Sessions

Alex Chapin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:05:23 +0000

Beginning Jan. 1st, 2012, we will be disabling the creation of new sites in Segue with the goal of eventually turning off Segue on August 31, 2012. To help faculty move their Segue sites to other platforms, we have scheduled a number of Segue Migration Workshops:

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

Assistance with migrating Segue sites will also be available during Curricular Technology work sessions:

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)

Finally we will also be offering more workshops on WordPress and Moodle:

3-4pm, Jan 11th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
2-3pm, Jan 18th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
4-5pm, Jan 11th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)
4-5pm, Jan 18th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)

Course Hub Overview

Alex Chapin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:12:09 +0000

The Course Hub was the principal recommendation for how best to Segue from Segue made by the Curricular Technology team in the fall of 2010. The Course Hub has been in use at Middlebury for nearly a semester now, having been launched by the LIS Web Application Development group in September 2011.

To help others understand this innovative, curricular resource aggregation platform, I made a screencast that gives an overview of its design.

This is one of a series of Course Hub screencasts we will be publishing in the coming weeks. Check out the Teaching with Technology blog to see Course Hub Case Studies

Additional Curricular Technology Work Session

Alex Chapin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:29:29 +0000

We have scheduled 2 additional Curricular Technology work sessions before the holidays on the following date:

10-11 am, Mon, Dec 19th, Library 105 (sign up)
1-2 pm, Tues, Dec 20th, Library 105 (sign up)

Aesthetics of the Moving Image

Alex Chapin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:23:43 +0000

Louisa Stein is an assistant professor of Film and Media Culture. In the spring of 2010, I interviewed Prof. Stein about her use of technology in a number of her courses. Below is a screencast from that interview that describes her use of WordPress and Moodle in a first year seminar course on the “Aesthetics of the Moving Image.”.

Course Hub Case Studies

Alex Chapin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:09:34 +0000

The Course Hub is being actively used by a variety of courses this fall. To give a sense of the different ways faculty are using this new platform, we’ve made a short screencast that shows a number of courses and some the resources they have linked to their course hub sites.

Curricular Technology Workshops in December

Alex Chapin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:30:39 +0000

The Curricular Technology team has scheduled workshops and work sessions for faculty on various platforms that are available for teaching and learning. Workshops typically provide overviews of a given platform. Work sessions are designed to provide hands on support and consultation.

2-3 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
3-4 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)
3-4 pm, Tues, Dec 13th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)
2-3 pm, Wed, Dec 14th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)

For more information on these, see: Workshops

For information about all workshops offered by LIS in December see: On-campus Workshops > Schedule

Curricular Technology Workshops

Alex Chapin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:57:05 +0000

As the semester draws to a close, the Curricular Technology team has scheduled workshops and work sessions for faculty on various platforms that are available for teaching and learning. Workshops typically provide overviews of a given platform. Work sessions are designed to provide hands on support and consultation. Here is the schedule:

2-3 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
3-4 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)
3-4 pm, Tues, Dec 13th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)
2-3 pm, Wed, Dec 14th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)

For more information about these workshops, see: Workshops

For information about all workshops offered by LIS in December see:
On-campus Workshops > Schedule

WordPress Workshops

Alex Chapin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:42:08 +0000

WordPress is a platform for creating a wide range of web sites, including this one. A number of workshops on WordPress have been scheduled in October.

WordPress Introductory Workshop

This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about WordPress.

1:00 – 2:00 pm, Fri, Oct. 14 Library 105

If you are interested in attending this workshop, see:
WordPress Workshop Sign Up

WordPress Work Sessions

We have also scheduled a number of work sessions on WordPress, as well as Moodle. These work sessions are designed to provide hands on assistance to anyone who is working on a site or has specific questions. Here are dates/times:

4:00 – 5:00 pm, Tues October 18, Library 105
4:15 – 5:15 pm, Thurs October 20, Library 105
4:00 – 5:00 pm, Weds October 26, Library 105
2:00 – 3:00 pm, Thurs October 27, Library 105

If you are interested in attending one or more of these sessions, see:
WordPress/Moodle Work Session Sign Up

For more information about WordPress, see:
http://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/WordPress
http://sites.middlebury.edu/wordpress

For a full list of workshops offered by LIS as well as links to other resources for learning about technology, see:
Help & Support » How to Learn More » On-campus Workshops

WordPress in the Liberal Arts

Alex Chapin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:44:54 +0000

Last week I attended a Nercomp event on WordPress in the Liberal Arts in Norwood, MA and participated in a panel on WordPress themes and plugins with colleagues from the College of Wooster and Abilene Christian University. About 45 people attended, most from institutions that were already using WordPress. Many of these same institutions were also using Moodle and Drupal.

WordPress is used by many for course sites. Abilene Christian University has integrated it with Banner making it easy for their faculty to create class blogs that automatically include students. The College of Wooster has an instance of WordPress referred to as Voices, that includes BuddyPress and bbPress, popular WordPress plugins and associated platforms that add functionality for creating groups and forums and aggregating activity streams across various sites. Mark Frydenberg from Bentley University teaches his students how to maintain a WordPress site, requiring each student to take on the role of site administrator and tasking them with changing the site theme, adding plugins and managing roles.

Some institutions are using WordPress for e-portfolios. Macaulay Honors College has over 1,500 sites in EPorfolios@Macaulay, which also makes use of BuddyPress to create various groups that they plan to include in their upcoming WordPress student portal, My.Macaulay. Some institutions even use WordPress for the college website including Bates, Lafayette and Wheaton.