Finds of the Week in the Wilson Media Lab
Just wanted to share some tool tips that some of the digital media tutors have found while working on projects in the lab: Ask Sam M. about integrating hover text into a WordPress blog for language...
View ArticleFriday Links – August 30, 2013
Tools That College Students Wish Their Instructors Used Either More or Less, 2013 – Students favored using their laptops over their smartphones to assist in classroom learning. And nearly three...
View ArticleFriday Links – September 6, 2013
The history of favicon.ico. Progressive enhancement is dead but also progressive enhancement is faster. PE, by the way, is the idea of ensuring that a web application is usable across a broad range of...
View ArticleFriday Links – September 27
Interactive Storytelling - There has been a lot of interest in the article “Snow Fall – The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” as presented by the New York Times. (If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check...
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The Technologies of Makerspaces
Below is a dispatch from The Technologies of Makerspaces workshop, attended recently by Heather Stafford and Rebekah Irwin… Makerspace smack in the middle of a Connecticut library But wait! Before you...
View ArticleAre you interested in learning more about infographics?
Lynda.com offers a collection of resources about creating infographics that can be found at this link: http://www.lynda.com/Infographics-training-tutorials/1462-0.html (after you log in using your...
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Friday Links – Nov. 15, 2013
For those of you with kids, this article “Teach Kids how to Code, Make Apps and 3-D Models With These Tools” lists some interesting possibilities. From School Library Journal and The Digital Shift....
View ArticleFriday Links – January 10, 2014
Hmmmm…it’s pretty snazzy looking but how do I know if I should I trust that infographic? Fast Company has some good tips here. (Spoiler alert: the article title is “Infographics Lie. Here’s How to...
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Friday Links – January 24, 2014
With a tagline like this: ”A spectacular historical atlas refashioned for the 21st century” who can resist? Check out the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States presented by the Digital...
View ArticleFriday Links – February 14, 2014
The return-on-investment of reading from Forbes, or Why you should read books Vermonter Bryan Alexander of NITLE “goes” to Educause via Doppelbot. Cute and humorous video about data sharing,...
View ArticleFriday Links – March 14, 2014
9 Tips for Creating a Sense of Community for Distance Learners - The article provides is geared towards fully online courses, but it is also good advice for faculty wanting to created engagement in a...
View ArticleFriday Links – March 28, 2014
The faces of libraries change, but we still love them: From Distant Admirers to Library Lovers–and beyond from Pew Research Internet Project How MOOC Video Production Affects Student Engagement is a...
View ArticleFriday Links – April 4, 2014
The Terran Computational Calendar - Synchronized with the northern winter solstice and the UNIX Epoch, the terran computational calendar contains 13 identical months of 28 days each in addition to a...
View ArticleFriday Links – April 18, 2014
Photos: 15 gadgets to reduce your energy consumption - Earth Day is April 22, so it’s a great time to take a step back and look at your personal energy consumption. The Truth About Google X: An...
View ArticleFriday Links – July 11, 2014
At Sea in a Deluge of Data By Alison J. Head and John Wihbey Chronicle of Higher Education People in charge of hiring at large organizations such as Microsoft, Nationwide Insurance and the FBI say that...
View ArticleFriday Links – October 17, 2014
Time for a Thesis – From the Senior Admissions Fellows Blog, a self-reflective essay by a History major on the impact of our annual message to seniors about thesis carrel signup and research support....
View ArticleFriday Links for Halloween, October 31, 2014
10 reasons scholars should start writing BuzzFeed articles Infographics in 3 Steps NEW! Moodle Users Listserv – This group is for Moodle teachers who would like to use an email forum to ask, answer,...
View ArticleFriday Links – February 27, 2015
Adobe Photoshop is a pretty amazing application, but in the hands of artists, it’s breathtaking. Check out the work of Erik Johansson via this post in Mashable. I’ve included a Behind the Scenes video...
View ArticleEmbedding a Kanopy Streaming Video in a Course Site
Good news! Thanks to our partners in ITS, faculty can now embed a video from Middlebury’s repository of Kanopy streaming videos in their WordPress sites. We’ve documented the process here. Below is a...
View ArticleWilson Media Lab – Summer Stats
We’ve finished tabulating the usage counts for the Wilson Media Lab which can be found in the Piktochart below or here. Some interesting differences from last year’s summer session include: An increase...
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