Collaborating with the campus community to explore questions of pedagogy, best practices, and technology integration.
By Aubry Miller In this post, I’ll be providing some tips on how you can optimize your experience in Microsoft Outlook. Quick Tips Turn On Dark Mode 1.Select Settings. 2. Click on the Dark mode switch to initiate dark mode. Change the Display Density 1.Select Settings. 2. Choose between Full, Medium and Compact. Create Folders Select New Folder from the left panel on […]
By Pavithra Brahmananda Reddy Microsoft SharePoint is a software that makes collaborating with your team members easier. It was designed to increase efficiency among people working together online. You can use SharePoint by logging into your Office365 account online. Among SharePoint’s many features is the ability to integrate your data with the other Office 365 […]
By Jessica Israel Sway is a Microsoft app you can use to create various projects such as presentations, stories, and reports. When you first enter the sway app, you will be greeted with a homepage that says, “Welcome to Sway.” Sway presents options to either create a new project or start from a topic. You […]
Editor note: This post was written by Minh Phan, Class of ’24, one of Ed Tech’s Digital Media Assistants. Learn more about our Digital Media Assistants. As we continue to adapt to COVID-19 in 2021, Technology@Wooster developed a notification flow with Microsoft Power Automate to make personal health check easier. As a student, I find […]
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 […]
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 […]
