{"id":975,"date":"2016-01-06T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/?p=975"},"modified":"2016-01-06T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T18:15:53","slug":"adventures-in-blended-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2016\/01\/06\/adventures-in-blended-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Blended Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">Blended Learning Program Deadline<\/h2>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">\n<p>The deadline for proposals for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fivecolleges.edu\/blended\">Five College Blended Learning Program<\/a> is January 31st, which will be here soon. Any faculty interested in submitting a proposal will need to meet with <a href=\"mailto:akinney@hampshire.edu\">Asha Kinney<\/a>\u00a0in IT to discuss the project before submitting the proposal. If you are considering this program please get in touch soon!<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fivecolleges.edu\/blended\/our-projects\">listing of grant recipients and their projects<\/a> can be found on the Blended Learning Program website, and we encourage any interested faculty to peruse this information in order to get a better idea of what kinds of projects this program tends to fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">Current Hampshire Blended Learning Projects<\/h2>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/01\/Ellis_flier.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-976 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/01\/Ellis_flier-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ellis_flier\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/01\/Ellis_flier-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/01\/Ellis_flier-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/files\/2016\/01\/Ellis_flier-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Alicia Ellis of HACU received a grant for her class Writing from the Diaspora: Readings in Contemporary Women&#8217;s Fiction,\u00a0which ran this past fall. Professor Ellis used various digital tools that encouraged student engagement with the material and\u00a0close reading of class texts. She has kindly shared information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeellis.com\/blended-learning-showcase\/\">project&#8217;s process and tools here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.hampshire.edu\/content\/index.php?video=BLShowcaseEllis\">see a video of her presentation<\/a>\u00a0at last fall&#8217;s Blended Learning Showcase in which she discusses the project (Hampshire login required for video).The other grant recipient under this program is James Miller of CS, who will teach a class this\u00a0spring called Media in Cars. This class will focus on using digital technology, online collaboration, and project-based learning to explore the past, present, and future of media in cars. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/studentwork.hampshire.edu\/mediaincars\/\">website with details about the class and the tools it will use here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">More About Technology for Student Collaboration<\/h2>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">Another good resource for faculty interested in incorporating technology into their teaching, whether for a Blended Program proposal or not, is <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.hampshire.edu\/content\/index.php?video=UsingTechnologiestoSupportStudentCollaboration2\">this video of a panel discussion<\/a> about technology for teaching,\u00a0learning, and collaboration\u00a0from last spring&#8217;s Celebration of Teaching at Hampshire.<\/div>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"current-comment js-friendly-links\">\n<p>Interested? Have questions? <a href=\"mailto:akinney@hampshire.edu\">Get in touch!<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blended Learning Program Deadline The deadline for proposals for the Five College Blended Learning Program is January 31st, which will be here soon. Any faculty interested in submitting a proposal will need to meet with Asha Kinney\u00a0in IT to discuss the project before submitting the proposal. If you are considering this program please get in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2016\/01\/06\/adventures-in-blended-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures in Blended Learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27559,10979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-college-programs","category-blended-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}