Digital Learning and Inquiry - MIIS

We have exciting opportunities this semester for MIIS students! Come to learn more about D-Prize, Consulting Opportunities with local and national social businesses, how we can help launch your startup with a social mission, and have some delicious feel good pizza and salad from local social enterprises. Invite fellow students who want to learn more and join this incredible student group to make a real social impact on campus and in your professional careers!!!

Join the Office for Digital Learning and the Digital Learning Commons for a guest talk by Audrey Watters, education writer and rabble rouser at Hack Education, entitled “Attending to the Digital / Reclaiming the Web”. This talk is part of a series linked to the launch of MiddCreate, Middlebury’s initiative to offer a “domain of one’s own” to everyone in the Middlebury community.

Learn how to use Magic Move and Magic Chart in Apple’s Keynote presentation software to create dynamic slideshow presentations, including animated charts that bring data to life.

ot a story to tell from your time over J-term? Want to hear about your classmates’ experiences? Come to the J-Term Storytelling Night! Sign-up is night of, open-mic style. Bring any visual aids you want to use on a jump drive.

Taking lots of pictures during winter break? Come join us for our last Mac OS X themed workshop for the semester and learn how to organize your winter snapshots! In this final meeting we’ll teach you how Mac’s new “Photos” app has changed and why it’s a good thing! Topics include: how to use “keywords” and “tags”, create “smart albums”, easily change the names of your photos, and much more!

Come learn more about the Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project and the 2015-2016 IDSP Fellowship.

Join us in the DLC Design Space for a brown bag presentation and conversation with MIIS alumna (MIIS alumna MBA, IEP), eco-activist, stand-up comic and designer, Jessy Bradish. Jessy will talk about her entrepreneurial journey in designing (iterating, failing, testing…) a radical board game about future climate change scenarios. We’ll learn about game design and have time to play test the latest version of “Climate Oasis”. “Climate Oasis is a collaborative resource management board game that takes place in the year 2070, and explores possible (and fantastical) challenges society might face.”

Distance communication and collaboration are a big part of the work we do at Middlebury for students, faculty, and staff. A collaborative project is underway to evaluate alternative platforms to our current web conferencing platform: Adobe Connect. We’re hosting an information session about Zoom, a popular web conferencing platform that is being considered for adoption. Come learn about Zoom, how you can use it this semester, and how your feedback will inform the future of web conferencing at Middlebury! Questions? Contact us at dlc@miis.edu.

Are you looking to improve your Excel skills? Does the phrase Microsoft Excel make you nervous? Fear not friends, META LAB and the DLC are collaborating once again to provide a series of Excel workshops during the first half of the Spring 2016 term to support the MIIS community. All you need to bring is yourself! Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant: Mentru Nagbe.

Are you looking to improve your Excel skills? Does the phrase Microsoft Excel make you nervous? Fear not friends, META LAB and the DLC are collaborating once again to provide a series of Excel workshops during the first half of the Spring 2016 term to support the MIIS community. All you need to bring is yourself! Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant: Mentru Nagbe.