Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry

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.

Love it or hate it, we all have to use Zoom right now. Why not learn how to make it better?

DLINQ invites you to the Zoom Against the Machine cryptoparty. Participants can choose to attend two of four 20-minute sessions related to the following topics:

Acquire Skills: Still not sure how Zoom works? Attend a basic skills workshop to learn about all of the platform’s functionalities.
Build Fluency: Learn about Zoombombing and how to prevent it.
Create Community: Discuss how to set group norms, ice breakers, and strategies to improve the zoom experience for everybody.