Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry

Join us on Tuesday, April 17th from 12:15-1:30pm for our next Behind the Scenes presentation.

Sarah Laursen is researching ancient Chinese gold for a book project and an exhibition that will be held at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in the fall of 2019. She will discuss the process of creating a database to organize her English and Chinese data, as well as her preparations for the exhibition, which will include 3D digital models made using photogrammetry, interactive maps, and videos about metalsmithing.

Please join us for lunch on Wednesday, April 4th, from 12 pm-1:30 pm in the CTLR Lounge for the first gathering in our Digital Fluencies series. Databases undergird almost every digital publishing project, platform, interface, and tool. How do we better understand what databases are—and what they can be—as a key aspect of the digital liberal arts? We’ll gather to explore the topic. Faculty, students, and staff at all levels are welcome to attend participate regardless of digital skills.

We increasingly live in an algorithmic society, our everyday lives shaped by interactions with Google searches, social media platforms, artificial intelligence software, and myriad devices and programs that rely on the execution of computational algorithms. Algorithms at once bake into their equations the assumptions and biases of their human makers and also take on lives of their own, for we now even have computational algorithms developing other algorithms. But what are algorithms, exactly? Is all thinking, computational or not, algorithmic in some manner?

Join us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, with remarks by Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar.

Join us on Tuesday, March 20th from 12:15-1:30pm for our next Behind the Scenes presentation.

Middlebury’s strategic framework identifies digital fluency and critical engagement as one of our key strategic directions. In this interactive hands-on session, Mike Roy (Dean of the Library) and Amy Collier (Associate Provost for Digital Learning) explore various facets of critical digital fluency, why it matters, and what we might do within and beyond the curriculum to develop our own and our students’ fluencies.

Lunch served. Please RSVP at the URL below.

For whom is Middlebury’s living and learning experiences designed—who benefits most, who is most harmed? Join this co-design jam to explore inclusive design and design justice approaches that might help make Middlebury a more inclusive place. Hosted by the DLINQ Inclusive Design Studio. go/IDstudio

Join us to find out what “breadcrumbs” we are leaving in Canvas, and how they are being used.

DLINQ invites you to the Big Data: Canvassing Canvas Cryptoparty. Participants can choose to attend two of three 20-minute sessions related to the following topics:

-Acquire Skills: Have you ever looked at your data in Canvas? Join this session to learn how to view and manage your data.
-Realizing Community: How can our technological tools, pandemic or not, build community?

Join us to find out what “breadcrumbs” we are leaving in Canvas, and how they are being used.

DLINQ invites you to the Big Data: Canvassing Canvas Cryptoparty. Participants can choose to attend two of three 20-minute sessions related to the following topics:

-Acquire Skills: Have you ever looked at your data in Canvas? Join this session to learn how to view and manage your data.
-Realizing Community: How can our technological tools, pandemic or not, build community?

Calling all students! Have you experienced challenges with group work during remote learning? Had any terrific group work experiences? In this workshop, we’re asking for student input into what works for remote collaborative group work.