14 Aug 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: Perspectives
Photo by Morgan Harper Nichols on Unsplash
Who am I, and how did I get here?
I started at SUNY Geneseo as an undergraduate English major in 2014, and I truly had no idea what I was doing. People would make assumptions about my plans based on my major and, likely out of sheer stubbornness, I would feel compelled to reject each one: No, I’m not going to be an English teacher… No, it’s unlikely I’ll be a famous author, but thanks for asking.</p>
As irritating as these questions were, they were even more so because for a long time I couldn’t come back with anything substantial that I actually could see myself doing with a degree in English.
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04 Aug 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: Perspectives
Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash
What will the first year of SUNY Geneseo’s Center for Digital Learning look like? That question was hard enough to answer even before March 2020. When Paul Schacht and I first learned of the opportunity for us to institute a center that would serve the Geneseo community in its efforts to innovatively utilize digital tools and practices in ways that support teaching, learning, scholarship, and creativity in late 2019, we excitedly began preparing for its arrival.
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27 Jul 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: Perspectives
Why a Center for Digital Learning? Without a center to hold them, things don’t always fall apart, but they don’t necessarily hang together.
A range of offices and individuals have long worked hard to advance one or more forms of digital learning at Geneseo — from online courses, to digital pedagogy in the classroom, to research and creative activity at the intersection of digital technology and the liberal arts and sciences. The new Center for Digital Learning will bring increased organization and coordination to this work.
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