Location: International Room, Sterling Memorial Library

Date: Friday, November 30

Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm

Presenters: Barbara Stuart, Lecturer, Department of English

Description: From course blogs to a class full of iPads provided by the library and ITG – Barbara Stuart will use her classes as an example of how we can use technology now and how we might use it in the future. She says, “Many years ago, when students still stood in long lines to register for courses – those were also the days of desktops in every office and dorm room – a group of us noticed the one student in a large, sweaty crowd who walked in balancing an open laptop on one arm. On that laptop was a spreadsheet of the courses he might take that fall semester. That’s weird, we all thought. Now, of course, we have online registration. And we have since gone from classrooms with the occasional laptop to seminar rooms and lecture halls full of laptops. Now Yale students even have tools for laptops, iPads, iPhones, and Androids to facilitate shopping and scheduling their courses, even for finding their classrooms. We can be sure that just about every backpack we see holds a laptop – or an iPad, because now in our classrooms, the occasional iPad crops up. Soon we will likely see classrooms full of iPads or similar tablets. Portable – portable devices and portable information – is the wave of the future. We need to ride that wave by using technology to achieve our pedagogical goals.”

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Location: International Room, Sterling Memorial Library

Date: Friday, November 16

Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm

Presenters: Kathryn James, Curator, Early Modern Books and Manuscripts and the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Christine McCarthy, Chief Conservator, University Library

Description: In spring 2012, with the support of a Yale University Library SCOPA (Standing Committee on Professional Awareness) grant, staff members from Special Collections Conservation and from the Beinecke Library created the Traveling Scriptorium, a teaching kit of inks, pigments, binding samples, and paleography resources. The participants — Kathryn James, Karen Jutzi, Marie-France Lemay, Christine McCarthy, and Paula Zyats — were responding to a sense of the Yale community’s increasing interest in the book as artifact, and the need to work directly with these materials in order to understand how medieval and early modern books were written, built, and read. The idea for the Scriptorium grew out of a collaborative teaching session, in which each presenter spoke about the same objects from their related but different professional perspectives. The Scriptorium brings these perspectives together in a tangible way. The Scriptorium is available for students, faculty, and library staff to use in Yale classrooms; the creators also envisioned drawing on the kit for instructional sessions for the Yale community.

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Location: StatLab, Center for Science and Social Science Information

Date: Friday, October 19

Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm

Presenter: James Rolf, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

Description: Learning Catalytics is a software implementation of clicker technology with the addition of many more question types and a grouping algorithm to foster peer discussion. Learning Catalytics is available on any browser-enabled device (laptop, tablet, smarthphone, etc.). Professor Rolf will talk about his experiences with Learning Catalytics and lessons learned.

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