Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Yes, it’s a college-wide learning goal, an FYS learning goal, and we know it’s a critically important skill, but honestly who can afford the precious class-time it takes to teach oral expression? Colleagues Shawna Shapiro (Writing and Linguistics Programs) and Sarah Stroup (Political Science) will join Oratory Now Director Dana Yeaton (Theater) in a demonstration and discussion of the many ways, large and small, we can use speaking to deepen, broaden, and in some cases even expedite, what we already do.

Background Materials available at go/roundtable

Thinking about a career in a secondary International School? Come meet Dexter Lewis, a retired educator with more than 25 years of experience in International Schools. Dexter will be on campus for a Career Conversation, Friday, May 5th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in the CCI Library in Adirondack House. Dexter has been a headmaster at schools in Malaysia, Austria, Germany and has consulted with international schools in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Find out how to get your career in International Schools started!

Come by the atrium of Davis Library to experience some of the 3D initiatives at Middlebury. There will be 3D scanner and an Oculus Rift on display and available for demos. Watch 3D scanning in process, view 3D printed replicas, and experience virtual reality.

Most digital humanities approaches pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from cultural texts that is already legible to scholars. Instead, this talk advocates a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radical ways not previously possible. The return to a surrealist and avant-garde tradition requires a unique kind of research, which is newly possible now that humanists have made the digital turn. Lunch provided, so please RSVP at go/dla.

A conversation/workshop with Seth Denbo ‘90, American Historical Association Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives, that uses the 2015 AHA “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians” as a case study for thinking about the digital liberal arts in relation to issues of professional evaluation, hiring, and promotion.

Open to faculty and administrators. Lunch served. Please RSVP at the URL below, but feel free to attend even if you forget to sign up.

Quoctrung Bui is a graphics editor at the New York Times‘s The Upshot. He has written stories on insurance, inequality, zoning, taxes, and other topics. He started his career in journalism at NPR’s Planet Money after a stint at the Federal Reserve Board.

Presenter: Dr. Bryan Alexander, Futurist and President of Bryan Alexander Consulting
Tuesday, January 23rd, 11:00-1:00, CTLR, lunch included
Register online at http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrjan2018/portfolio/bryan-alexander/

More than 130 Middlebury students participated in faculty mentored research projects on campus this summer as research assistants. The Middlebury Community is invited to engage with these students to see what they have discovered through poster presentations at the Summer Research Symposium in McCardell Bicentennial Hall.

Welcome Luncheon—Summer research assistants and their mentors are invited to a welcome lunch in the Bicentennial Great Hall and Discovery Court.

Lunch and learn for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Join newer faculty for a discussion about the graduate school experience. RSVP needed by 6/15 for lunch count only. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research and the Center for Careers and Internships.