All posts by Amy Collier

Register for DLINQ’s Summer Digital Teaching & Learning Series

Registration is now open for DLINQ’s Summer Digital Teaching and Learning Series that will be held August 24-26, 2022 via Zoom. This year’s series has 3 tracks organized around the theme Engaging and Inclusive Digital Learning:

Games and Learning

Digital Storytelling

Inclusive Design and Design Justice

Attend all 3 sessions in a track to receive a certificate of completion. Strategies and approaches introduced in these sessions can be implemented in multiple modalities, including in primarily on-ground courses, hybrid courses, and fully online courses. No matter what modality you are teaching this fall, you’ll find ideas to support student learning in your course.

For more details and to register for the courses, follow this link: Summer Digital Teaching & Learning Series

Join DLINQ’s 2020 Digital Detox

DLINQ invites you to join the 2020 Digital Detox, which will focus on attention in the digital attention economy. As with previous Detoxes, the 2020 Detox will offer two email-based newsletters in the month of January filled with information, reflections, activities, and resources to help you engage with this topic. We will explore how the attention economy drives the design of digital environments, impacts our relationships to and through digital tools, impacts our ability to attend to important things, and extracts our data for the profits of corporations. We’ll also share the impact of the digital attention economy on students and explore strategies for bringing focus back to learning. Topics may include: self care as activism, the impact of automation/AI on attention, noticing in the digital world, thwarting attention metrics in digital platforms, “tree time,” and more! This January, focus your attention on the 2020 Digital Detox. Sign up today!

Fall Jazzercise will help you to strengthen and tone (and it’s fun!)

Middlebury’s Jazzercise program continues this fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30pm, in the 3rd floor studio of the Athletics building. This high-intensity dance workout mixes modern moves with strength training, to help you burn calories and tone muscles. Sponsored by Middlebury’s Wellness Committee, this class helps you get fit and have fun while doing it.

Think you know Jazzercise? Think again. Jazzercise has been around for a long time, yes, but this isn’t your mama’s Jazzercise. Each class brings pulse-pounding music and fresh moves that will help you tone target zones, increase your energy, and leave with a mood boost. You can burn up to 800 calories in a 60-minute class. Want to see what Jazzercise is like? https://youtu.be/O3udbWWaR7Q

About the instructor

Amy Collier is the Associate Provost for Digital Learning at Middlebury and a certified Jazzercise instructor. For more than five years, Amy has taught fun and effective Jazzercise classes for people of all ages and fitness levels. Jazzercise instructors are expertly trained to mix in new moves with hit music so classes are always different, keeping your workouts fresh and challenging. 

What will you need to join?

Each class costs $5. Participants will pay Amy directly at the time of the class.  

Funding from The Wellness Committee makes it possible to offer these classes at a reduced rate.  

This class is for faculty and staff at Middlebury

You will wear comfortable workout wear and sneakers/tennis shoes. Please bring a mat and weights to class (3-lb., 5-lb., & 8lb. are most commonly used). If you don’t have weights, come anyway, and use your body weight as resistance. Also, bring water and a towel because you will sweat!

Join the mailing list for updates and class teasers! Sign up here

Fall Jazzercise will help you to strengthen and tone (and it’s fun!)

Middlebury’s Jazzercise program continues this fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30pm, in the 3rd floor studio of the Athletics building. This high-intensity dance workout mixes modern moves with strength training, to help you burn calories and tone muscles. Sponsored by Middlebury’s Wellness Committee, this class helps you get fit and have fun while doing it.

Think you know Jazzercise? Think again. Jazzercise has been around for a long time, yes, but this isn’t your mama’s Jazzercise. Each class brings pulse-pounding music and fresh moves that will help you tone target zones, increase your energy, and leave with a mood boost. You can burn up to 800 calories in a 60-minute class. Want to see what Jazzercise is like? https://youtu.be/O3udbWWaR7Q

About the instructor

Amy Collier is the Associate Provost for Digital Learning at Middlebury and a certified Jazzercise instructor. For more than five years, Amy has taught fun and effective Jazzercise classes for people of all ages and fitness levels. Jazzercise instructors are expertly trained to mix in new moves with hit music so classes are always different, keeping your workouts fresh and challenging. 

What will you need to join?

Each class costs $5. Participants will pay Amy directly at the time of the class.  

Funding from The Wellness Committee makes it possible to offer these classes at a reduced rate.  

This class is for faculty and staff at Middlebury

You will wear comfortable workout wear and sneakers/tennis shoes. Please bring a mat and weights to class (3-lb., 5-lb., & 8lb. are most commonly used). If you don’t have weights, come anyway, and use your body weight as resistance. Also, bring water and a towel because you will sweat!

Join the mailing list for updates and class teasers! Sign up here

Jazzercise Bootcamp, May 22-26

Have you been waiting for the right moment to try Middlebury’s Jazzercise class? This is your chance. We are excited to announce a Jazzercise Bootcamp—five days of Jazzercise to jumpstart your summer. 

Monday, May 22 – Friday, May 26, you can join five days of calorie-burning and muscle-toning dance aerobics. Each day will feature a different Jazzercise format, culminating in a special Bring the Heat! interval class on Friday. All five sessions will be offered at 4:30pm in the 3rd floor studio of the Athletics building. 

Sign up for the Bootcamp by completing the form below. Each class is $5 (pay for the entire week at once or drop in for individual classes). Attend all 5 Bootcamp classes and you’ll receive a special Jazzercise gift.

Invite your friends to join the fun! If two of your referrals attend at least one class, you’ll get a Jazzercise key ring. 

Schedule

Monday, May 22                 Dance Mixx

Tuesday, May 23                Interval

Wednesday, May 24          Dance Mixx – Core

Thursday, May 25              Flip Fusion

Friday, May 26                   Bring the Heat! interval class

Sign up now: https://goo.gl/forms/F5s044lvfFvkjSGr2

Blog posts from the Office of Digital Learning: Digital language and assessments, distance collaboration, intellectual property, and more!

dig-learn-11-2Check out the latest blog posts from the Office of Digital Learning:

The rutabaga: What to do with the digital

Language learning and the digital

Advice for working across distance

Envisioning distance collaboration

Moodle to Canvas: Language assessment transitions

What does Middlebury’s new IP policy mean for you? (Part 1)

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Middlebury Language faculty: Apply to join the AALAC workshop on Digital Language Learning, April 7-8, 2017

co00-2008-logo-003We are pleased to announce a workshop on Digital Language Learning: A Liberal Arts Exploration of New Modes of Teaching and Learning Languages that will be hosted by Middlebury, April 7-8, 2017. 

The workshop, which is funded by the Association for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC), will include conversations about how the digital can transform language learning in liberal arts contexts. Specifically, participants will look at the ways in which digital language learning transforms traditional language learning environments by amplifying deep connections, improving differentiated instruction, and extending language learning beyond the walls of the classroom. To read a complete description of the workshop, please follow this link.

Non-Middlebury attendees will have a travel allowance of up to $650 to attend this workshop, generously provided by AALAC funding. Because funding is limited, we will accept only a limited number of attendees from other schools.

Since you are a faculty member at Middlebury College and will not need travel funding, please submit an application to participate in the workshop via this link (Institute faculty, please use this link to apply and we will discuss internal funding for your travel).

Applications are due November 4, 2016. Attendees will be selected based on the expertise and experience they will bring to the workshop, and with a goal of diversifying participation across AALAC schools and languages. The workshop organizing committee, consisting of faculty from various AALAC schools, will notify applicants of their acceptance status by December 1, 2016.

Organizing committee:

Steve Snyder, Dean of Language Schools and Kawashima Professor of Japanese Studies, Middlebury College

Gabriele Dillman, Associate Professor of German and Julian H. Robertson Jr. Endowed Chair, Denison University

Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor of Modern Language and Literatures and Director of the Language Learning Center, Rhodes College

Lynn Miyake, Professor of Japanese, Pomona College

Renee Jourdenais, Dean of the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey

Peipei Qiu, Professor of Chinese and Japanese on the Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Chair, Vassar College

Ann Sherif, Professor of Japanese, Oberlin College

Tatiana Smorodinska, Professor of Russian, Middlebury College

Tom Van Order, Associate Professor of Italian, Middlebury College

Openness without penalty: The cornerstone of the creative student/classroom/university, with guest speaker Adam Croom

Adam Croom is the Director of Digital Learning and an instructor in the College of Journalism of Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. In this talk, Adam will narrate how he leverages the technology of the open web to stimulate his students’ learning and personal growth, and to catalyze creativity in his classroom.

Adam’s course project, which started off with a 15-student class, has grown into a university-wide initiative in which more than 3,000 students, faculty, and staff are given space and tools on the open web to write, build, and share. Learn how this project is providing soft infrastructure for teaching, learning, and, ultimately, creating a domain of one’s own.

Please join us Monday, September 26 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT for this important conversation.
Location: Library 105
Watch from anywhere via streaming on MiddCreate, http://middcreate.net, or on go/stream

BLOG POSTS FROM THE OFFICE OF DIGITAL LEARNING: Digital tools, MiddCreate, Instructional Design, Working Across Distance

Check out the latest blog posts from the Office of Digital Learning:

Bringing digital humanities tools to your classroom

Announcing MiddCreate

Best feet forward: Instructional Designers as pedagogical consultants

Working across distance – Amy’s view

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