Category Archives: Updates

Tell Us What You Need

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Thanks!
(to those of you who arrived here from one of our surveys)

The Curricular Technology team has started a Uservoice site to gather ideas about curricular technnology needs at Middlebury, see:

Curricular Technology Suggestions/Ideas

Anyone can vote on existing ideas or suggest new ones. This is an opportunity for you to tell us what you need or tell us what ideas/suggestions you think are good by voting on the site.  We’ve put up a few ideas based on what we think are the Functional Requirements for Segue Replacements.

Alternatively, you can also email us your ideas for “must have” or desired features of curricular technology platforms/applications (LISCurricularTechnologyTeam@middlebury.edu). Let us know too, if you’d like an interview with a team member to present your ideas or discuss a particular set of functional requirements.

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Technology Selection Strategies

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Over the next few weeks, the Curricular Technology team will be posting our thoughts on strategies for choosing curricular technologies in general and for finding alternatives to Segue in particular.  In describing these strategies, we will do our best to list various options available and then articulate our position, the selection criteria we think are most appropriate for LIS to adopt when evaluating technologies for use by the Middlebury community.

We hope these strategy posts will be informative and at times provocative and will spark some discussion of educational technologies and technology in education.

Usage Analysis: Audio Capture

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A number of programs of study make use of technologies for recording audio.  Some faculty have recorded their lectures, others  have recorded class discussions.  Language faculty have recorded samples of the language they are teaching for students to listen to and reproduce in their own recordings or have required students to record themselves reading words, phrases or passages from various texts.  Some faculty teaching writing courses have asked their students to record themselves reading their own writing.  Finally faculty in various departments have had their students produce podcasts.  For more details, see:

Curricular Technology Usage Analysis » Audio Capture

We invited others to send us more examples of the use of audio capture at Middlebury or comment on any of the case studies included in this usage analysis.  We also invite anyone in the Middlebury community interested in or knowledgeable about this topic to participate in our focus group sessions later this month.