Category: Faculty/Staff

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle

Turnitin + Moodle = Elegant

Andrew Ruether

Working with Moodle and Turnitin.com just got really easy here at Swarthmore. ITS recently completed a project to fully integrate the Turnitin.com service with Moodle.  Turnitin can support you with grading, grammar, plagiarism checking, and peer review services.  It is now possible to create an assignment in Moodle and have student papers automatically submitted to Turnitin.com. Turnitin can be used to detect similarities in content to websites, journal articles, or other student papers, and can be used to do online grading, including voice annotations.  In addition, Turnitin can automatically assign student papers for peer review.  Peer review can be done anonymously, if desired. Here are … Continue reading Turnitin + Moodle = Elegant

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Network, Students

Internet2 Arrives at Swarthmore

Andrew Ruether

Swarthmore ITS is pleased to announce a major network connection speed upgrade to Internet2, a blazing-fast network designed for research and education that connects schools, labs, and industry partners.  Internet2 allows faculty, staff, and students at Swarthmore to easily share large data files with collaborators at other institutions.  It also provides high speed connections to Internet2 business members such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Amazon Web Services — things you’re probably already using here!  Your campus technologies are already taking advantage of these higher speeds. We have a 1Gbit/s connection. About 40% of our normal Internet traffic now flows … Continue reading Internet2 Arrives at Swarthmore

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle, Workshops and Training

Moodle Workshops and Training Opportunities for Fall 2014

Andrew Ruether

ITS is offering several Moodle workshops and one-on-one sessions to help get your courses ready for the Fall 2014 semester. Introduction to Moodle Workshop This hands-on workshop will cover how to set up a course in Moodle, upload a syllabus and readings, handle student enrollments, send class emails, and provide an overview of other features available in Moodle. Tuesday 8/26/14 from 1:30PM – 2:30PM in Trotter 201 Monday 9/1/14 from 1:30PM – 2:30PM in ITS Media Center (Beardsley 114) What’s New in Moodle for Fall 2014 Some of the major new features in Moodle include: annotating PDF assignment files from within … Continue reading Moodle Workshops and Training Opportunities for Fall 2014

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Moodle

Moodle Upgrade on Friday 8/8/2014

Andrew Ruether

On Friday August 8, 2014, ITS will be upgrading the Moodle site. Moodle will be unavailable from 8AM to noon on 8/8/2014. Some highlights of the new version of Moodle: Ability to mark up student PDF assignments from within Moodle Modernized appearance, simplified interface, and improved usability for tablets and phones Ability to drag and drop images and text onto a course page Ability to show contents of folders on the course main page OpenBadges compatible badging system All existing courses and course material will still be available on the upgraded site. ITS will be offering introductory and intermediate courses … Continue reading Moodle Upgrade on Friday 8/8/2014

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Mobile Devices, Software, Trico, Workshops and Training

Teaching with Technology Forum (hosted by Haverford College)

Eric Behrens

Our friends and colleagues at Haverford have invited anybody with an interest in educational technology to come to their annual Teaching with Technologies Forum. Date: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014. Time: 11:00am~2:00pm Location: Stokes 102 Program 11:00-11:30 Using an iPad as a Teaching & Learning Tool Paul Farber, Writing Fellow Hiroyo Saito, Director of the Instructional Technology Services 11:30-12:00pm Google Glass Upma Singh, Instructional Technology Specialist, IITS Charles Woodard, Digital Media Specialist, IITS Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Professor of Computer Science 12:00-1:00pm Light Lunch & Demonstrations Instructional Technology Services, IITS 1:00-1:30 Zapotec Talking Dictionary Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Tri-Co), Alex Mannix (BMC ‘15) and … Continue reading Teaching with Technology Forum (hosted by Haverford College)

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, SPEED Program, Students, Swarthmore College Libraries, Web Projects

Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2014 SPEED program support

Eric Behrens

The Swarthmore College Libraries and ITS are pleased to announce the selections for this year’s Special Projects for Educational Exploration & Development (SPEED) program. Swarthmore faculty and staff submitted an exciting and innovate pool of proposals, from which nine were selected. Deb Bergstrand, Graphics, animation, and 3D-printed education resource (GA3DER) Michael Brown with Adam Neat, Physics pre-lab instructional videos Sibelan Forrester, Comparing translations of a Russian poem Milton Machuca, Seeing Latino Migration to the USA Thomas Morton, Digital Rome: visualizing ancient Roman urban design Josh Newby, Kathleen Howard, and Ginger Heck, Enhancing chemistry labs with digital video Lee Smithey, The Mural Mapping Project Amy Vollmer, Flipping … Continue reading Libraries and ITS announce recipients of 2014 SPEED program support