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04/03/2018

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03/29/2018

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 ]

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…

03/27/2018

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 ]

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…

01/09/2018

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 ]

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…

11/09/2017

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 ]

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…

11/09/2017

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 ]

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…

08/30/2017

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 …

05/26/2017

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

http://mcgrawect.princeton.edu/mcgraws-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…

04/10/2017

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 ]

http://mcgrawect.princeton.edu/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 …

03/29/2017

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 ]

http://mcgrawect.princeton.edu/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,…

03/26/2017

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 ]

http://mcgrawect.princeton.edu/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 …

03/17/2017

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 ]

http://mcgrawect.princeton.edu/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…