07 Dec 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
The CDL is starting a newsletter! As we wrap up our first semester of operation at Geneseo, we realized how much we’ve accomplished and how much we have to look forward to. After chatting with some of the members of our Faculty Affiliates group during a weekly meeting, we realized that there are more ways that we can communicate our accomplishments, goals, and upcoming events and plans with the Geneseo community, one of which being a regular newsletter!
In this newsletter, expect to find some highlights of our monthly activities, upcoming events, as well as some quick tech tips and tricks to motivate our followers to play around and experiment with their computers in between our workshops. This month, we’ve chosen to celebrate the completion of our first semester, the success of our first ever workshop, the existence of our blog (not that you, dear blog-reader, need any info about that!), and our upcoming focus groups, which we announced in a previous blog post.
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16 Nov 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
online learning
Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash
As we find ourselves nearing the end of another unconventional semester, it is as hard to believe that we’ve been going through this life-altering pandemic since March as it is hard to remember anything from the “before time.” Something that began as an unexpected emergency move in the spring shifted to “the plan” for the fall; but, be assured, it’s virtually impossible (no pun intended) to actually make an effective plan for such a massive shift that quickly. We’re still very much in emergency mode.
While it may start to feel like this won’t ever end, it will. And when it does, things sure aren’t going to go back to the way they were. So, it’s really important that we figure out a plan, a real plan, going forward.
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12 Nov 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: News
workshops
command line
A refreshing glass of 01001000 00110010 0011000, brought to you by the xhtml element <img />. Photo by Roger McLassus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Next week, The Center for Digital Learning kicks off a series of workshops called <the elements />. As the name suggests, it’s a series focused on elemental computing skills — skills that increase your power and autonomy as a scholar, creator, or citizen.
The first workshop in the series takes place on November 19 at 4:15 pm in Zoom. Talk to Me: Communicating with Your Computer Through the Command Line will teach participants how to run a number of basic but powerful programs using simple, text-based commands rather than clicking on the icons of files and folders in their computer’s default interface.
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10 Nov 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: News
covid-19
“Idea,” by Joey Gannon, CC BY-SA 2.0
The Center for Digital Learning, the Department of Computing and Information Technology, the Office of the Provost, and faculty in the Department of Communication have collaborated to launch a competition for the most uplifting tales of living and learning at Geneseo this fall under the shadow of Covid-19.
In an email sent to the campus community today, Dr. Melanie Blood, Interim Associate Provost for Assessment and Curriculum and Professor of English and Music, writes:
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19 Oct 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
open access
Open Access Week 2020
And an unconventional Open Access Week it is. The theme of this year’s week of amplifying and educating folks on Open Access is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structual Equity and Inclusion”. With all of this year’s challenges, it has proven itself a year of action for many, whether that has been through going to the medical frontlines of this pandemic, taking to the streets to demonstrate against social injustice, adding childcare to your school or workday, or casting your vote, we’ve all had to take action this year in, at times, unexpected ways. International Open Access Week is yet another opportunity for our community of open advocates “to coordinate in taking action to make openness the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work” (Shockey, 2020, openaccessweek.org).
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