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Zoom
Zoom is a video conferencing tool with a local, desktop client; a web client; and a mobile app. It is the preferred tool for synchronous instruction. Materials from January 20, 2022 workshop Powerpoint slides, including links to resources Videorecording of workshop Teaching with Zoom Integrating Zoom into your Moodle course site Making Zoom work (for instructors) – Polling, Breakout rooms and more Use breakout rooms for small-group discussions Using Zoom for Office Hours Tips for presenting on Zoom Sharing and Viewing Zoom Recordings Track Attendance with Zoom A slide deck on Zoom from a TA point-of-view. Zoom security: Securing your meeting and preventing Zoombombing Choosing whether to require authentication for…
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Readying for a pandemic
Friday, March 6 Research, Instruction, Technology has drafted (just a draft! it will change!) a guide to some technologies that faculty might use to transform their classes for online delivery . NB: These are mostly technological suggestions, offered to aid faculty members and departments as they contemplate such changes in the current crisis Here are some handy resources around pedagogy under the circumstances: “Teaching Online with Care”; “Teaching in the Context of COVID-19”; Smith College’s guide to COVID19 digital support The Federal Student Aid office encourages faculty to remember this shift does not have to be dramatic: “To meet the Department’s requirements for providing distance education, an institution must communicate…
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Procrastinate no more!
Need to study for finals or finish a project? Sign up for the Long Night Against Procrastination for four hours of access to a quiet study space and people to help with research papers, digital projects, finals, etc.
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Logging in to Skype for Business on mobile/mac
For getting started with Skype for Business, including how to install it on Windows, read Getting Started with Skype for Business at Trinity. If you want to schedule a Skype for Business meeting from within Outlook you will also have to make a change to your account settings in Outlook. Be sure to read to the end to see the details. In order to login to Skype for Business on many mobile and MacOS apps, you will need both your full first.lastname@trincoll.edu address and password, AND, under “Advanced options,” your shorter username@trincoll.edu filled in for “Signing in as.” When you open the app for the first time, your sign in…
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SITT: May 16 in the 1823 Room
Information Services’s Spring Institute on Teaching & Technology will be Thursday, May 16, from 9.30 to 2pm in the 1823 Room of the library. Some details: Pastries and coffee will be available from 9am. Lunch will be available at noon. Drop-ins are welcome/encouraged! The exact schedule is still firming up, but you can expect something like: 9.30 Welcome/overview/highlights of past, present, future (many people) 10.15 Electronic lab notebooks (Hebe Guardiola-Diaz) 10.30 Hidden Literacies, Scalar, and Digital Scholarship (Christopher Hager, Hilary Wyss) 11 Creative Coding Fellows (Aidali Aponte-Aviles, Serena Laws, Dan Lloyd, Mitch Polin) 11.50-12.15 Get food 12.15 Keynote: Nick Montfort (MIT): “Learning to Program and Explore.” Abstract: How can…