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Last Spring, Sorat Tungkasiri and I presented some of our work at the Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr College. We've recently found out that we will be given time to speak again at the upcoming 2018 conference. This is great because to my mind this is one of the most useful conferences related to educational technology and digital pedagogy. [ 813 more words ]

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Platforms for project-based learning Last Spring, Sorat Tungkasiri and I presented some of our work at the Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr College. We’ve recently found out that we will be given tim…

Piazza is a communication tool available to all Princeton courses through the University’s Blackboard site. Piazza allows participants of a course to pose questions anonymously to which answers can be proposed. The wiki-like editing features of Piazza posts and the ability of being able to vote posts up and down, orient the tool toward collaboratively-crafted best answers. Piazza also includes polls for gathering feedback from participants, good support for equations and mathematical formulae, and the ability to upload and share files. [ 757 more words ]

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Getting started with Piazza Piazza is a communication tool available to all Princeton courses through the University’s Blackboard site. Piazza allows participants of a course to pose questions anonymously to which answers can…

Online platforms that facilitate collaborative and project-based teaching provide students with opportunities to work with course content in novel, creative, and ‘hands-on’ ways. Remediation assignments in which students use course materials in different contexts and through different media have the potential to inspire new understandings of those materials. Visualizing course materials in terms of time or geography can also provide an explicit, shared mental model of a knowledge domain. [ 1,211 more word ]

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Digital tools for course-based digital projects Online platforms that facilitate collaborative and project-based teaching provide students with opportunities to work with course content in novel, creative, and ‘hands-on’ ways. Remediation assign…

We are pleased to announce a new teaching and learning-focused website for the McGraw Digital Learning Lab (DLL). This site was created in-house, by the Educational and Classroom Technologies group which staffs the DLL, to help frame the space in terms of its new interdisciplinary teaching-mission. To underscore connections between the DLL physical and virtual spaces, a new text-based logo cast against a blue background links website and physical location through its use of the same font and color found on the wall outside the space in the iconic Lewis Library atrium. [ 475 more words ]

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New McGraw DLL Website We are pleased to announce a new teaching and learning-focused website for the McGraw Digital Learning Lab (DLL). This site was created in-house, by the Educational and Classroom Technologies group…

A few weeks ago, the McGraw Center hosted a faculty panel entitled Teaching with the Archives. This session highlighted several courses in which students are working with objects in library and museum archives and the ways in which those resources, or at least digital facsimiles of those resources, are being used in the classroom. The McGraw Center's Educational and Classroom Technologies group and Digital Learning Lab are keenly interested in coming up with ways for faculty and students to work with archival objects and in the session I mentioned a couple of technologies, specifically… [ 246 more words ]

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Using Princeton Art Museum collections in McGraw Commons A few weeks ago, the McGraw Center hosted a faculty panel entitled Teaching with the Archives. This session highlighted several courses in which students are working with objects in library and mus…

Fact and research in the digital age: a free resource Gathering accurate information from the internet is risky business. Students have a particularly hard time critically reading web-based content. Fortunately, there is an excellent online primer on …

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; ; McGraw's Ben Johnston to speak on making "Aprendo," a digital text book used by 350 SPA students at Princeton

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McGraw’s Ben Johnston to talk about collaboration with @PrincetonSPO on interactive, digital textbook. Date: Saturday, July 15, 2017 Time: 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. at WPCampus in Buffalo, NY.   The McGraw Center is pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Senior Educational Technologist, Ben Johns…

A group of journalism students in Elaine Sciolino's JRN 456: Local Reporting: Paris as a Case Study, recently spent spring break in Paris, reporting on the sights, sounds, and experiences of the city. Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, and author of the book The Only Street in Paris (2015, W.W. Norton and Co.) [ 88 more words ]

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Paris in the Spring — Paris as a Case Study A group of journalism students in Elaine Sciolino’s JRN 456: Local Reporting: Paris as a Case Study, recently spent spring break in Paris, reporting on the sights, sounds, and experiences of …

Jupyter Notebook is a browser-based Python application enabling the creation of documents that can contain both rich text and executable computer code. By mixing text and code in the same display, these notebooks are useful for presenting not only data analysis and visualization, but also textual descriptions of the code and of results. Text is normally entered using the Markdown syntax, but Jupyter notebooks can also include HTML, Javascript, and LaTeX code for equations. [ 82 more words ]

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Jupyter Notebook Jupyter Notebook is a browser-based Python application enabling the creation of documents that can contain both rich text and executable computer code.  By mixing text and code in the same display,…

Scalar is a free, open-source authoring and publishing platform designed from the ground up for scholarly use. Developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California and inspired by the work of Vectors Journal, also at USC, Scalar stands out as a digital publishing platform specifically oriented toward the writing of media-rich, long-form, born-digital scholarship. [ 410 more words ]

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Scalar Scalar is a free, open-source authoring and publishing platform designed from the ground up for scholarly use. Developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern …

Like much of the East Coast, we have been hit this week with snow storms. With the University closed last Tuesday due to the snow, it is a time when some instructors might be interested in recording their lectures and distributing those lectures to their students rather than holding class face-to-face. With that in mind, I spent some of today reviewing the processes for creating videos of slide presentations with accompanying voice narration in the two most popular platforms for creating slide shows, Powerpoint and Keynote. [ 664 more words ]

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Recording lectures on snow days Like much of the East Coast, we have been hit this week with snow storms. With the University closed last Tuesday due to the snow, it is a time when some instructors might be interested in recordin…

Thursday, February 16, 4:30 – 6:00, Professor Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies, talks about his interactive web site, Komonjo Location: 330 Frist Campus Center (The McGraw Teaching Lab). Teaching with Technology Showcase: Professor Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies, demonstrates a teaching website developed with McGraw…

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Teaching with Technology Showcase: Professor Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies, demonstrates a teaching website developed with McGraw's Educational Technologies group Thursday, February 16, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center The Komonjo (documents) website is a learning environment that supports Professor Conlan's seminar, EAS525-HIS520, Ancient and Medieval Japanese History. The site allows students in the course to explore transcriptions, translations, and historical contexts of a collection of medieval Japanese court documents. [ 206 more words ]

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This Thursday, February 16, 4:30 – 6:00, Professor Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies, talks about his interactive web site, Komonjo Teaching with Technology Showcase: Professor Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies, demonstrates a teaching website developed with McGraw’s Educational Technologies group Thursday, February 16, 4…

McGraw Center's Digital Learning Lab featured on Princeton home page -- who knew we were so photogenic?

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McGraw Center’s Digital Learning Lab featured on Princeton home page And we look GREAT. Many thanks to our friends in Princeton’s Office of Commuinication, Emily Aronson and Nick Donnoli for making this video.

I am always on the lookout for simple-to-use online tools for visualizing information in the classroom. Tools such as Voyant and Palladio may not be as powerful as installed software or scripts written in Python or R for text analysis or for generating network graphs, but are sufficiently powerful to encourage experimentation, and in the context of teaching and learning, experimentation is key. [ 309 more words ]

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TimeLineCurator I am always on the lookout for simple-to-use online tools for visualizing information in the classroom.  Tools such as Voyant and Palladio may not be as powerful as installed software or scripts wr…

While the McGrawCommons platform includes several platforms for different types of coursework, Wordpress serves as the platform for the creation of course blogs. Wordpress provides a stable, consistent, and easy-to-use platform for for collaborative writing and knowledge construction, publishing, and the development of multimedia narratives. We also use Wordpress because it is one of the most well-supported and extensible platforms available. [ 523 more words ]

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13 things blogs can do While the McGrawCommons platform includes several platforms for different types of coursework, Wordpress serves as the platform for the creation of course blogs. Wordpress provides a stable, consis…

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The Princeton University Digital Library (PUDL) is a terrific resource of digitized materials from the Library's collections. The selection of these materials for digitization is often driven by teaching needs. Several of the teaching projects to which the McGraw Center has contributed have used materials digitized by the Library and housed in the PUDL, including the Falda Publications and Soviet Children's Books… [ 165 more words ]

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Seadragon The Princeton University Digital Library (PUDL) is a terrific resource of digitized materials from the Library’s collections.  The selection of these materials for digitization is often drive…

The McGraw Center has recently purchased a document camera that can be borrowed for course use or lecture flipping. If the last document camera you've seen is about the size of a dorm-room refrigerator you will be surprised at how small and functional these new cameras are. This particular one has a touch-screen interface: The interface not only gives you touch access to camera controls, but a preview of what is displayed on the screen behind you: [ 107 more words ]

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Next-gen document cameras The McGraw Center has recently purchased a document camera that can be borrowed for course use or lecture flipping. If the last document camera you’ve seen is about the size of a dorm-room re…

HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233: East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations provides an introduction to the art, literature, religion, and philosophy of China, Japan, and Korea of the classical period. For its last three offerings, the course has made use of a web platform developed in collaboration with staff from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. [ 369 more words ]

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Student Work in East Asian Humanities HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233: East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations provides an introduction to the art, literature, religion, and philosophy of China, Japan, and Korea of the classical…

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The McGraw Center gets a new website: http://buff.ly/2dEBFM7

Using Text Analysis for Teaching. Curious? http://buff.ly/2cNX2cr