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.