Digital Learning and Inquiry - MIIS

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The Digital Learning Commons is the best place on campus to get your creative juices flowing. We are here to help you with all of your class projects, personal and professional skills development, and collaboration with others across the Middlebury ecosystem, to name a few things we do. Explore how the DLC can help you this semester at our “Exploration Party.” We will give you short demonstrations, explanations, presentations, and have conversations on the variety of services and tools we offer. This event is open to students, faculty, and staff.

Come to the DLC Design Space to learn about a few educational games that have been newly acquired by the Library! One such game is “The Empathy Toy.” Though initially designed to help bridge conversational gaps between the visually impaired and the sighted, The Empathy Toy has morphed into a toy/tool that is being used in innovation and design labs in universities and corporations across the country. Games created for The Empathy Toy reveal the relationship between empathy, creativity, play, and learning in the 21st century.

Generations of poor families have an engrained mentality of solving problems in a resourceful, innovative way. In a world faced with climate change and decreasing resources we should learn more about the resilience of impoverished communities. A discussion facilitated by the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD) will explore this topic and engage the collective intelligence of the MIIS community. We want to think critically about how the AASD and MIIS students can avoid paternalistic development practices and learn from the sustainability of the Andean communities. RSVP required.

Join us in person or remotely for a workshop exploring collaborative web annotation as a core digital pedagogical practice in the 21st century classroom. We will link up via Zoom web conferencing with workshop facilitator, Jeremy Dean, the education outreach director for Hypothes.is, an open source web annotation platform. This emergent technology enables everyday Internet users to comment on or publicly discuss any web page. It can be applied in education to teach students traditional literacy skills and newer forms of digital literacy.

Congratulations! National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is over! Come help Monterey’s local chapter of November novelists celebrate their achievements! On November 1, participants began working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30. Now their novels are done, and they want you to come read an excerpt and give high-fives for a job well done! See http://nanowrimo.org for more information.

As of July 1st, Canvas is officially live for the MIIS community! Faculty can now create Canvas resources for the fall 2016 term using the Course Hub. Canvas sites created via the Course Hub will sync student enrollment just like it does for Moodle. This training session will help you get started in Canvas and is based on the Canvas Canvas curriculum. It will give you a step-by-step tour of the learning management features and show you how to use it to your best advantage. We hope you’ll join us!