Collaborating with the campus community to explore questions of pedagogy, best practices, and technology integration.
Below is a list of plugins that have been added to Moodle this year to enhance its functionality. We include a short summary of each. The plugins and summaries can be found on the Moodle plugin repository. Plugin Summaries Activity Attendance: A plugin that allows an attendance log to be kept; includes an optional block for […]
Saturday, April 27th from 8am to midnight storytellers, developers, artists, and other creatives interested in XR (Extended Reality or an umbrella term for Mixed, Augmented, and Virtual Reality) were brought together at Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, California. Garage Stories is an organization bringing people from various fields together to create and […]
NERCOMP hosted a workshop on designing empathic 360-VR experiences for faculty and IT- professionals in higher education at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. Immersing Students with Empathy Dr. Milena Batanova is developing empathy workshops for teachers to use in K-12 classrooms. Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project offers resources for teachers and families to show and […]
Loyola University Chicago hosted the DHCS 2018 Conference on November 9th – 11th showcasing graduate and professional scholars in many unique projects in the Digital Humanities. Below are a few projects that allowed me to bring back new ideas to Wooster. The Muddle Project Loyola graduate students Taylor Brown and Rebecca Parker introduced and workshoped […]
This summer we have undertaken substantial improvements to woodle in order to increase speed and allow for greater file storage space. This necessitated making a few changes to the system that impact how you use woodle. 1. Woodle Addresses: There are now two addresses you need to know to access your current and archived […]
You may notice that the site looks a little different. I have changed the theme a little bit. I did a couple of things. First I changed the site over to the 24 column 960 Grid System. This makes it much easier to layout page templates and such. A side effect of this change is […]
Princeton’s student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, recently published an article on their recent campus pilot using the Amazon Kindle in courses. Although printing was reduced in each class by approximately 50%, both students and faculty found the Kindle limiting. Despite the Kindle’s environmental friendliness, users said they often found its design ill-suited for class […]
In response the the global economic slowdown, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has announced major cuts in staff and funding, halving their workforce to 32 and implimenting pay cuts for those remaining. Also announced was OLPC’s intention of discontinuing development of the Linux-based ‘Sugar’ operating system that its signature devices, the XO, run. Instead, Sugar […]
Released today, the 2008 report by The Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) has demonstrated that students who use their laptops during class time to review previous lectures, take notes, and reference prepared materials are more likely to engage in classroom discussions, be prepared for class, and “synthesize materials across courses.” Obviously, the focus […]
Video editing is always a bit of a hassle, especially when dealing with more complex editing tasks, such as editing an object or person across multiple frames. This week, Adobe released a short video demonstrating new video editing capabilities that the company has developed in their Advanced Technology Lab, based around the idea of object […]
