

UN Sustainability Goals
Working with Denise Crossan in the Lang Center’s Social Innovation Lab, the MakerSpace Student Assistant Eva Low created a set of tiles to illustrate 17 United Nations “Sustainable Development Goals [that] are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable … Continue reading UN Sustainability Goals

ITS Recommendation for macOS 10.15 Catalina
Apple will release macOS 10.15 this month (October 2019) and is offering the operating system as a free upgrade on supported Apple hardware. New computers will ship with the new operating system this Fall. ITS Recommendation Information Technology Services (ITS) … Continue reading ITS Recommendation for macOS 10.15 Catalina

Twitter Lists: Curating Your Experience
You or your department, club, team, or other group might already be using Twitter. Here is a small tip for you to help wade through the … Continue reading Twitter Lists: Curating Your Experience
What We are Reading – September 2019
Our Academic Technology group roams the Internet (and Libraries) looking for interesting reads. Here are a few works that caught our eye this month. Active Learning: Feelings versus Learning Swarthmore has a community of educators using active learning techniques. The Academic Technology team has been collaborating with faculty to provide learning spaces and technology to support their teaching needs. For the last few months, we’ve been spending time learning about how to best use the new Singer Hall Flexible Classroom. A recent article investigating discrepancies between how students feel about active learning versus how much they actually learn highlighted one … Continue reading What We are Reading – September 2019

How to Setup Moodle Gradebook
It’s the beginning of the semester and many are thinking ahead in setting up their Moodle gradebook. Moodle gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to grading but the amount of choices can be overwhelming. One option to … Continue reading How to Setup Moodle Gradebook

SPEED 2019 Projects
An intrepid and diverse group of students successfully took on a number of Summer Projects for Educational E-Development, working with faculty and staff to the benefit of the campus community. Alice Huang, Bilal Soukouna, Helen Huh,Katherine Knox and Steven Fernandez met with Librarians, … Continue reading SPEED 2019 Projects