Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Facilitators: Jessica Holmes and Mary Hurlie Group projects, when designed well, can build problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills, yet many students (and some faculty) groan at their mere mention. During this workshop, we will explore strategies to maximize the benefits of collaborative learning activities. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP at ctlr@middlebury.edu by Monday, April 18.

The goal for this workshop is to begin with a famous text from an ‘Eastern’ tradition that journeys into the complex and often conflicting dharmas that exist in a human life. Then, from this foundation, we move to a discussion of a topic that seems to have embroiled our community. On what source does one rely to determine the role that one should play as a professor when it comes to ‘free speech’? What are we to make of the Gita’s call to let go of the fruits of our actions when it comes to advocating for, protecting or expanding ‘free speech’?

EVENT LOCATION: Anderson Freeman Resource Center - Carr Hall Come learn about the exciting Creating Connections Consortium (C3) Summer Research Fellowship from past participants Maya Doig-Acuña, Clair Beltran, and Debanjan Roychoudhury.

This workshop will introduce you to the basics of planning a digital exhibit and get you started with your own Omeka.net digital exhibit. DLA Postdoc Alicia Peaker will be leading the workshop. She has also worked as the Director of Our Marathon (http://www.marathon.neu.edu), a digital archive, built with Omeka, of crowdsourced materials related to the 2013 Boston bombings. Enrollment is limited, so please follow the link below to sign up and reserve your space. http://sites.middlebury.edu/dla/2015/08/26/building-digital-exhibits-wi…

The Digital Liberal Art’s first Behind the Scenes Lunch will feature our new Postdoc, Kristy Golubiewski-Davis, as she demonstrates the 3D scanning tools and techniques she used in her doctoral research. This project is a case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords (~1200-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to link the decisions of specialized craft workers to morphological data. Those data were in turn used to represent links in a social network. Come learn about 3D scanning, statistics, and network analysis.

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a British scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. The deadline for the British nomination application is April 15, 2017. Detailed information is available at go/fellowships.

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a British scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. The deadline for the British nomination application is April 15, 2016. Detailed information is available at go/fellowships.

Talk with Ed Johnson, PhD (Physics, Oxford University) and Rhodes Scholar (1981). Focus on graduate science study in the UK, Rhodes and other competitive British scholarships for science students.

CTLR Pedagogy Series—Tech for the Teaching Toolkit
Presenters: Ryan Clement, Research Librarian and Kristy Golubiewski-Davis, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Liberal Arts

Join us on Thursday, March 23rd from 12:30-1:30 for our next Behind the Scenes presentation. Professors of Psychology Marcia Collaer (Middlebury College) and Anthony Richardson (Saint Michael’s College) will present their work exploring the development of body ownership as assessed in the virtual world. Their work extends investigations of the rubber hand illusion into digital space. The traditional rubber hand illusion explores sensory and perceptual factors that give rise to a sense of ‘body ownership’ that can develop for an inanimate object (e.g., a rubber hand/arm).