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TwTT: Teaching/Research Portals

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March 2nd, 2010

11:00 am

Bass Library, L01

We will discuss a small but growing number of web sites created and edited collaboratively by librarians, curators, faculty and students featuring collections and items available in Yale repositories relevant to specific areas of disciplinary research. These sites extend the possibilities of traditional subject guides by allowing for tagging and providing an environment where scholarship and teaching materials based on the featured collections can also be highlighted. We will also demonstrate how these portals are set up in Drupal, an open source content management system now being offered at the university.

Projects to be discussed include:

  • Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
  • Yale American Indian Studies Portal
  • Unbecoming British: Material Culture in Early America

Presenters:
Christine DeLucia, PhD Candidate in American Studies
Miriam Posner, PhD Candidate in Film and American Studies
Ken Panko, Manager, Instructional Technology Group

TwTT Student Created Video

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February 9, 2010

Student Created Video

11:00 – 12:00

Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)


As digital media becomes easier to create and disseminate, faculty have come to embrace the technology in course learning initiatives and objectives. One such example is the video project Professor Andre Taylor from Chemical Engineering assigned his CENG 210 students in the fall of 2009. The students of CENG 210 were charged with the task of creating short promotional videos for various target audiences of prospective engineering students at Yale. While the project served to deepen the students’ understanding of Chemical Engineering’s connections to other disciplines and fields, it also modeled the type of teamwork students would encounter as a regular component of a career in Chemical Engineering. Members from the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) and the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) worked closely with Professor Taylor and his students in offering course design, student consultations, video camera and video editing workshops, and grading rubrics.

Please join Professor Andre Taylor, Matthew Regan and Yianni Yessios from ITG, and Carolyn Caizzi from the VRC in a discussion of the project from conception to crux to conclusion.

TwTT: Classroom Technology Expo

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Next week – January 26
Classroom Technology Expo
Hosted by ITG, Stat Lab, Media Services, Library Map Collection, CMI2, & Student Tech Collaborative
10:00am – 4:00pm (Open House)
Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)

This special format Teaching w/ Technology Tuesday will be an open house (10:00am – 4:00pm), with representatives from across campus, showcasing a wide variety of classroom technologies available for use in your courses. Are you looking for opportunities to explore project-based learning and student collaborations? Have you ever wanted your students to create a video or audio clip for an assignment? Do you want to employ GIS technologies to help your students understand geospatial content? Come and see potential technologies and pedagogical approaches to enhance the classroom experience. Select technologies include: GIS devices, Tablet PCs, blogs, media equipment for checkout, ClassesV2, digital ink devices, and much more. Coffee will be available for all attendees.