http://clc.yale.edu Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:36:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Community Generated Media Monday July 21 (1:00 - 2:00pm) Room L01 of the Bass Library (lower level) Community-generated media (CGM) is the real-world equivalent of "user-generated content" online. As our major media begin to roll out into our streets via wireless networks, handheld devices, and public displays, an exciting opportunity arises for ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/07/09/upcoming-collaborative-learning-center-event/ Kari Swanson, Acting Head of the Science Libraries, took us on a tour of Second Life with her avatar Kari Meadowbrook. Second Life is a 3-dimensional online environment populated by graphical representations (avatars) of over 1 million people. Kari explained how Second Life offers the potential for radical changes ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/04/30/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-second-life/ Many of us are familiar with the most basic capabilities of Google Maps: finding a street, getting driving directions, and switching to "Satellite" view to see our homes and other favorite places from above. In this week's Teaching with Technology Tuesdays presentation, Sandy Isenstadt, Assistant Professor in History of Art, shared ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/04/15/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-custom-google-maps/ Seth Fein, Professor of History, demonstrated and discussed how class blogs have been used for the last few semesters in his classes. In his current course on Film and History he and his students are using a WordPress blog set up with the help of Yale's Instructional Technology Group. Fein ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/04/11/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-class-blogs/ Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History, demonstrated Zotero's features and discussed the research and teaching applications of Zotero. He explained that Zotero was developed at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Zotero is Albanian for "to grab." It is a free extension for Firefox ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/04/02/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-zotero/ Robin Ladouceur, Foreign Language Resource Specialist, from the Center for Language Study gave a demo of VoiceThread. VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold any type of media (images, documents and videos) allowing people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/03/25/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-voicethread/ This session was delivered by Ian McDermott, Yale's Visual Literacy Instruction Fellow. Ian began by showing a number of examples of interactive timelines you can find on the Internet. They included: the SIMILE project out of MIT which has created an open source timeline. Pam Patterson from ITG showed an example ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/03/18/interactive-timelines-2/ Barbara Rockenbach welcomed everyone to the Collaborative Learning Center, an entity created to bring together course supporters and others across campus interested in teaching and learning. After remarking on the great turnout for our "spring break edition" of Teaching with Technology Tuesdays, Barbara introduced Ian McDermott, Visual Literacy Fellow ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/03/12/teaching-w-technology-tuesdays-flickr/ Research Clinics What: 30 minute informal sessions highlighting one area of library research or service. Where: All clinics meet on the lower level of the Bass Library in room L01. When: March 26 @ 4pm - Finding the perfect book for your research March 28 @ 4pm - Finding scholarly journal articles April 8 @ ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/03/10/spring-2008-bass-library-collaborative-learning-center-schedule/ Yesterday's Teaching w/ Technology session highlighted funding opportunities for teaching at Yale. Most of the instructional innovation grants discussed can be found at http://www.yale.edu/iig/. Brad Gano from the Center for Language Study (CLS) spoke about funding for language teachers for purchasing course materials, travel for course enhancement, and support for instructional ... http://clc.yale.edu/2008/03/05/teaching-funding-opportunities-2/