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Senior Curricular Innovation Specialist

Course Sites and New Services

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Last year we posted some course site suggestions for faculty. The information is still relevant, and here is a short summary for those who only need a reminder:

  • Where to find help for faculty – http://go.middlebury.edu/liaisons
  • Where to find help for students working on media assignments – http://go.middlebury.edu/dmt
  • Start at the Course Hub – http://courses.middlebury.edu
    • Add your syllabus as a web page, document, or link
    • In general, if you would like your course site to be private choose Moodle
    • In general, if you would like your course site to be public choose WordPress
    • If you make your course unavailable to students while you are building it, please make sure you make it available before students need access to it.

There are a handful of new services that are available for faculty to use in their courses:

SANSSpace

SANSSpace has a web-based video and audio recorder for class assignments. Students can record audio or video and save directly to the site, and faculty can respond by inserting text, audio or video in the timeline of the student’s submission. It is most commonly used for an online language lab environment, and also has applications for presentations, music, and writing. SANSSpace can be added to your course via the Course Hub.

Shared Moodle Resource

Currently, the only shared Moodle resource is the Academic Integrity Tutorial. This tutorial can be added to any course via the Course Hub.

Curricular Innovations

There have been many stories about curricular activities gathered over the years, and they have been shared across many sites. We have started to gather them in one place, the Curricular Innovations site, where faculty can see and share experiences in the classroom.

 

Personal tech tip: A colleague recently shared that they use a program called Eyeleo (http://eyeleo.com/) to help them to remember to take regular breaks when spending long amounts of time at a computer. Eyeleo works on windows computers, and there is a similar program, Time Out (http://www.dejal.com/timeout/), that works on Macs.

Moodle Maintenance on Friday, August 15th

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This message is from Remote-Learner, our Moodle host:

Remote Learner will be conducting database maintenance August the 15th from 01:00 AM EST until 04:00 AM EST on the Kansas City data center. During this window we will be improving the performance and resiliency of our database system. During this time you may experience periods with loss of connectivity to your hosted site. Thank you for your patience as we continue improving our services.

Sincerely,

Remote-Learner Technical Support

Friday Links – July 11, 2014

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At Sea in a Deluge of Data
By Alison J. Head and John Wihbey
Chronicle of Higher Education
People in charge of hiring at large organizations such as Microsoft, Nationwide Insurance and the FBI say that recent college graduates lack skills in research and analysis. “The new workers default to quick answers plucked from the Internet. That method might be fine for looking up a definition or updating a fact, but for many tasks, it proved superficial and incomplete…”

How unexpected opportunities can inform practice – As a part of some of my coursework I have had the opportunity to read some interesting educational research. I thought it might be helpful to share a brief overview of some of the articles that I’ve reviewed. This is the first post in a series that I was planning to share. Please feel free to contact me at hstafford@middlebury.edu if you’d like to discuss further.

11 University and Library Groups Release Net-Neutrality Principles – The nation’s colleges and libraries have a message for the Federal Communications Commission: Don’t mess with net neutrality.

Friday Links – July 4, 2014

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Mostly language-neutral fireworks display for the fourth of July at Middlebury. Keep the sound on. [Warning: English spoken (sung by Katy Perry) from 5:00 through 8:37)]

A different kind of fireworks – real-time cyber-attacks

The 100-year legacy of World War I – fascinating interactive piece from the New York Times

What is an eBook? How do Publishers price it? Includes a video produced by an Italian publisher that describes all the production costs behind the price of a book – print or digital.

Why the future of tech demands smarter people, not smarter gadgets – The next 30 years of innovation risk being wasted unless society does a better job of educating people about the potential – and downsides – of technology.

Moodle Maintenance on Saturday, July 12th

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From Remote-Learner, our Moodle host:

Dear Valued Client,

In order to increase the resilience and reliability of our cloud platform we will be conducting network maintenance on 7/12/2014 between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m., EDT. During most of this period your site will be operational, but there may be short periods of connection loss to the internet.

Sincerely,

Remote-Learner Technical Support