Category: Academic Technology

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Trico

2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference (hosted by Bryn Mawr College)

Eric Behrens

Bryn Mawr College announced that the third annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference will be held on 21-22 May 2014. Advance registration by May 15 is required. Registration is free for Swarthmore College faculty and staff. This conference is part of the college’s Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Initiative, funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is designed as a forum for college faculty and staff to share resources, experiences, and findings related to blended learning. Particular emphasis is placed on using blended learning to improve learning outcomes and support the close faculty-student … Continue reading 2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference (hosted by Bryn Mawr College)

Academic Technology, SPEED Program, Students

Summer Internship Opportunity: Create with SPEED!

MK

Apply for a SPEED internship by March 19th, 2014!

For the past two summers, ITS & the Libraries have been creating academic web and digital media projects through a program called Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED). Because the needs of these projects will vary, the SPEED intern will have the opportunity to explore many aspects of the work done within the Academic Technology & Libraries. SPEED interns will be deeply involved in projects from start to finish, with the expectation that they will contribute substantially to the successful completion of projects. Work may include, but not be limited to: writing code in various languages (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Python) […]

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Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Students

Gaming Extravaganza – December 11th in Kohlberg 326 (LRC)

Mike Jones

Join us December 11th from 11 am – 3 pm for Swarthmore’s first Gaming Extravaganza Study Break.  Great food and an array of different games set up at multiple stations in and around the Language Resource Center (Kohlberg 326).  The event will include vintage games and gaming platforms, multi-player, handheld games and foreign language games.   Continue reading Gaming Extravaganza – December 11th in Kohlberg 326 (LRC)

Academic Technology, Media Center

New Coordinator for the Beardsley Media Center Arrives

Eric Behrens

Q: What do Antarctica, Brazil, and the Beardsley Media Center have in common? A: They’re all places that Jeremy Polk has worked. Jeremy Polk joined ITS last week in the role of Media Center Coordinator. Jeremy previously worked as a media producer at the National Science Foundation, where he specialized in documentary filmmaking and media technology support. In 2010-11, he directed and produced three short documentary videos in Antarctica for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Ice Core Project, for which he was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America. Jeremy has also worked as a … Continue reading New Coordinator for the Beardsley Media Center Arrives

Academic Technology, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies

Ashley Turner joins Media Services

Eric Behrens

We’re pleased to welcome Ashley Turner to the Media Services group. Her colleagues, Michael Patterson, Dave Neal, and Mike Bednarz, are renowned on campus for their helpfulness. Unfortunately, we’d come to the point where the event and course needs of the campus required a level of support from them that often exceeded the merely heroic. Ashley joined us as a Media Services Specialist in August and has already become an indispensable member of the team. Before coming to Swarthmore, she was the sound engineer for the Wilma Theater and an adjunct instructor of sound design at Drexel University. She earned … Continue reading Ashley Turner joins Media Services