ITS has open positions for both students and professional staff. If you are interested, please apply. If you know someone who might be a good fit, please pass along these opportunities. Student opportunity: Student Interns This summer, ITS and McCabe Library … Continue reading ITS is hiring
Each year, ITS and the Libraries sponsor Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED) to connect faculty projects with student workers. Last summer, Math Professor Elizabeth Drellich and SPEED interns Kate Collins ’18 and Cassandra Stone ’20 collaborated to build reflections.swarthmore.edu, … Continue reading SPEED Project Success: Professor Elizabeth Drellich
At the end of July, ITS and Library staff and student workers completed another set of Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED). David Molina Cavazos ’20 worked with Assistant Dean Liz Derickson and Associate Director of Client Services Erin Massey, to create firststeps.swarthmore.edu, a site that Swarthmore students and faculty advisors can use to explore majors. Each page contains data collected from alumni to provide guidance on what students do after graduation, sample career paths, and student narratives. The Dean’s Office is using First Steps to assist with course advising this year. Kate Collins ’18 collaborated with Math Professor Elizabeth Drellich to … Continue reading SPEED Project Wrap Up for Summer 2017
“We’re trying to promote this for deaf children, because 96% of deaf children are born into hearing families who didn’t expect to have a deaf child and they are not signers themselves. So it becomes an issue of how … Continue reading Supporting Literacy Among Deaf Children – an E-Book Project
SPEED awards from ITS and the Libraries provide dedicated support from software developers, librarians, academic technologists, and student interns for an eight-week period of project development. Our four SPEED student interns have made great progress on their projects and we are … Continue reading SPEED Project Updates
ITS and the Libraries are pleased to announce the SPEED Project awardees for the Summer of 2017. Each Spring, the Swarthmore College Libraries and ITS invite all current employees to submit proposals to Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED). SPEED awards provide dedicated support from software developers, librarians, academic technologists, and student interns for an eight-week period of project development. With a SPEED project team’s help, faculty and staff can create a new digital object or resource that enhances teaching or facilitates undergraduate research. For Summer 2017, the projects will focus on Data Visualizations. From infographics to interactive … Continue reading SPEED Projects for Summer 2017 Announced
