October 26 | CryptoParty 101 at the Middlebury Institute

Digital Learning Commons, Monterey & Online

CryptoParty 101: an introduction to the grassroots movement to teach everyone in the community how to take control of their digital privacy and security All levels of experience and interest welcome. No technical background or special skills required. This is a hybrid event: On campus at the Institute - Digital Learning Commons, McGowan Bldg, 411

Digital Storytelling with Pressbooks or WordPress

Online

Join us for an exploration of WordPress and Pressbooks as platforms for sharing digital stories and research. Pressbooks is built on a WordPress platform, but is more highly templatized, allowing you to create and share fiction or research in a book-like form, incorporating multiple media and easily generating web, PDF, and/or e-book versions of your

Digital Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps

Online

At this session, we’ll walk through the basics of working with ArcGIS StoryMaps, share examples and resources, and discuss how to set up StoryMaps groups and create Collections. We’ll also discuss how students can take their StoryMaps with them when they leave Middlebury. While StoryMaps can incorporate actual maps, it is also, at its most basic,

Welcoming as an Inclusive Practice

Online

December 1, 2022 2-3 pm Pacific / 5-6 pm Eastern Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library (VT) Online via Zoom Helping people new to our communities (classrooms, student groups, teams) feel welcome and included is a key inclusive practice - and one that we often take for granted. But done casually, we can actually end

De-FAANGing Social Media: A Cryptoparty Encouraging Data Agency and Empowerment

Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library 110 Storrs Ave, Middlebury, VT, United States

FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) have been learning about us through our posts, purchases, media consumption, and browsing habits for many years. These companies are grabbing our attention strategically, even while company executives are “limiting — and sometimes outright banning — how much screen time their kids get.” Social media has a wide-reaching and significant impact

Drop-in Consultations: Canvas

Online

Monday, December 5, 2022 4:30-5:30 pm Pacific / 7:30-8:30 pm Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please register below

Drop-in Consultations: Canvas

Online

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 8:00-9:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am - noon Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please

Drop-in Consultations: Canavs

Online

Thursday, December 15, 2022 9:00-10:00 am Pacific / noon - 1:00 pm Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please

Drop-in Consultation: Canvas

Online

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00 pm Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please register below

Drop-in Consultation: Canvas

Online

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 8:00-9:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am-noon Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please register below

Drop-in Consultation: Canvas

Online

Thursday, January 5, 2023 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online Via Zoom Have a question about Canvas, or any of the tools that integrate with Canvas (Panopto, Hypothes.is, etc.)? Come by our Zoom room to chat with DLINQ staff about your question or what you're looking to accomplish with Canvas. Please register below

TechKitchen: Exploring and Making with Digital Tools and Equipment

Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library 110 Storrs Ave, Middlebury, VT, United States

DLINQ is hosting activities to encourage members of the Middlebury community to introduce themselves to digital technologies with the guidance of DLINQ Interns. The “Tech-Kitchen” format allows participants to try out different “recipes” with a variety of equipment and software. Activities range from creating eye-catching posters to decorate your dorm room or office using graphic

What Else You Need to Know About ChatGPT

Online

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 9:30-10:30 am Pacific / 12:30-1:30 pm Eastern LIB 105 (VT campus) and Online Via Zoom In this interactive session we will focus on ethics pertaining to ChatGPT, ranging from classroom ethics to privacy issues and ethics of global labor. As a follow-up to our last session on syllabus language, several colleagues

TechKitchen: Exploring and Making with Digital Tools and Equipment

Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library 110 Storrs Ave, Middlebury, VT, United States

DLINQ is hosting activities to encourage members of the Middlebury community to introduce themselves to digital technologies with the guidance of DLINQ Interns. The “Tech-Kitchen” format allows participants to try out different “recipes” with a variety of equipment and software. Activities range from creating eye-catching posters to decorate your dorm room or office using graphic

Exploring ChatGPT

Online

Friday, March 31, 2023 12:00-1:00 pm Pacific / 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Online Via Zoom Have you been wondering about the hype surrounding ChatGPT, but haven't had a chance to try it out for yourself? Wondering how ChatGPT could or should be used in your work as a student, staff or teacher? In this workshop, you'll

TechKitchen: Exploring and Making with Digital Tools and Equipment

Wilson Media Lab, Davis Family Library 110 Storrs Ave, Middlebury, VT, United States

DLINQ is hosting activities to encourage members of the Middlebury community to introduce themselves to digital technologies with the guidance of DLINQ Interns. The “Tech-Kitchen” format allows participants to try out different “recipes” with a variety of equipment and software. Activities range from creating eye-catching posters to decorate your dorm room or office using graphic

Student cultural orgs in conversation about student engagement

Anderson Freeman Center and Online

Friday, May 12, 2023 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Anderson Freeman Center, Main Floor Online Via Zoom Calling all Middlebury College cultural student orgs! The Inclusive Design Studio is facilitating a space for mutual aid and solution production for challenges around student engagement and more. We welcome current and future board members, and general members, of college

Getting Started with Canvas for Language Teachers

Online

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom This workshop is geared to language faculty who are new to Canvas, and/or new to using Canvas at Middlebury. We will cover the following topics as an introduction to Canvas: Creating a course site using CourseHub Importing a template Setting up

Creating Accessible Materials for Diverse Learners

Online

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom When creating or using digital materials in your course, you will want to ensure that those digital materials are accessible to the broadest range of learners. There are small steps that you can take in creating digital materials that may have

Diving Deeper Into Canvas

Online

Wednesday, June 15, 2023 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom During this workshop, we’ll demo and discuss Canvas features such as: Using the Canvas calendar for scheduling office hours and student meetings Determining the settings options on different page types (assignments, discussions, and quizzes) Embedding images, videos, and google docs on