Author: Laura Wenk

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Take a 5 C Survey on Digital Technology

Five College Digital Humanities is working to develop a portrait of how different humanists use digital technology in their research, teaching, and creative work. Our most important tool for this is the 5CollDH community assessment survey, which responds to the different ways we all use technology in our scholarly lives. We invite responses from all members of the Five College academic community– staff, faculty, students, and administrators. 

This process will only work if we get as many responses as possible. The survey takes anywhere from five to fifteen minutes to complete, depending on how much you would like to say right now. It would be so great if you could take the survey before April 20th. 

In recognition of everyone taking the time to complete this task, 5C Digital Humanities is raffling gift cards to a variety of Valley establishments. Anyone who takes the survey is eligible to win! 

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Faculty Seminar in Public Humanities

Call for participation (.doc) in a faculty seminar next year (2015-2016) as part of the Five College/Mellon Bridging Grant in the Public Humanities.

Are you using archives, museum collections, or other kinds of public humanities resources in your teaching–either current or proposed courses? If so, join this keenly interdisciplinary group of scholars who are doing the same.

This is open to all tenured, tenure track, and contract employees with on-going appointments. Participating Fellows receive a stipend of $2000 for joining us for eight sessions over the next academic year.

For more information, contact Karen Koehler (Seminar Coordinator)
Professor of Architectural and Art History, Hampshire College
Director, Institute for Curatorial Practice

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Sixth International Digital Storytelling Conference

The Sixth International Digital Storytelling Conference is happening September 25-27 in the Five College area! The theme is Voices and Change: Activism, Education & Public Service. Please tell your colleagues and friends about this historic conference, the first of its kind on American soil!The website for the conference is live at www.dst2015.org.

The conference is hosted by Smith College, with plenary events happening at UMass, Mount Holyoke College and other venues in the Five College area.

The Call for Papers is now open through March 31, 2015.
For questions, please email Yvonne Mendez at yvomendez@gmail.com. Look for more info in the coming weeks!

 

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The Hampshire Learning Project

HLP_TrailerThe Hampshire Learning Project (HLP) is an internally funded research project designed to determine the ways that the Hampshire experience contributes to students’ initiative, creativity, appetite for ongoing learning, and desire to contribute to society.

The Hampshire Learning Project has created a short video series to present some of our recent research findings to faculty, staff, and other members of the campus community. The series includes a two-minute overview video and four in-depth videos on important themes that have emerged: 1) advising, 2) critical reflection, 3) intellectual community, and 4) outside-of-classroom experiences.

The findings provide insights into student experiences and highlight areas that work well for students and those where students struggle.  We hope that the Hampshire community can draw upon these research findings to enhance and improve student experiences across multiple areas.

If you have practices that support students along these dimensions (e.g. creating intellectual communities through cohort advising; reflecting on learning each semester, etc.), consider making a short video on your practice to share. Contact the CTL at ctl@hampshire.edu to schedule your video production.

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Feb. 2nd Deadline for 5 College Blended Learning Grant Submission

REMINDER: there is a February 2nd deadlin

e for the 2015-2016 Five College Blended Learning grant cycle. There are two separate blended learning grants:

1. Mellon Foundation: 8-10 projects per year, approximately $13,000 per grant for one year, for a blended course in the humanities or humanistic social sciences (multicampus collaboration is possible, but not required);

2. Teagle Foundation: 2-3 projects per year, approximately $15,000-25,000 per grant for one year, for a blended course in any area by a team of faculty members from at least two different Five College institutions.

For more information and application materials, go to https://www.fivecolleges.edu/blended, or contact Rogelio Miñana, Faculty Director of the Five College Blended Learning Program (rminana@mtholyoke.edu) and Nate Therien, Five College Director of Academic Programs (ntherien@fivecollege.edu).

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Back to Eval Writing?

Back to eval writing? Check out our resource page on writing student evaluations (under “teaching resources”). There are resources that might be helpful. In particular, check out the work done by some of your colleagues developing guidelines for writing Division II evaluations. It grows out of an evaluation analysis workshop in which they learned that many evaluations were descriptive and lacked evaluative comments that help students know what they are doing well and what they need to work on next.

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5 College Blended Learning Workshop Cancelled

5C Blended Learning Workshop Cancelled. Due to the impending winter weather and the frenzy of the end of the semester, the 5 College Blended Learning Team has decided to postpone their second blended learning workshop to some time early in the spring semester. More details soon.

Apologies for any inconvenience – more after the winter break.