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Virtual Reality: More than Just a Headset
Virtual reality headsets have made many experiences possible for viewers including touring the International Space Station, exploring scenes from around the world, and getting up close and personal with molecules. Even here at The College of Wooster, faculty and students have been experimenting with virtual reality to solve problems, transform educational environments, build museums, and…
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Webjets: Curate your Knowledge
Webjets is a versatile desktop or canvas that allows users to organize information intuitively. With Webjets, you can build bookmarks, collaborate, create tasks, make mindmaps, design moodboards, and develop documents. No longer will you have to worry about having so many tabs open in a browser. Webjets allows you to drag and drop anything into…
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Getting Started with Mapping and Timelines
Maps and timelines can be useful tools and concepts in helping students approach concepts of space, place, time, and storytelling. This workshop’s goal is to provide a no barrier introduction to mapping and timelines in the classroom. Timeline JS “TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can…
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Getting Started with 3D Printing
Take the survey! Login to our Tinkercad Classroom Wayne County Maker Faire website University of Akron Wayne College Learn the basics about 3D printing including our Lulzbot 3D printers, Cura interface, and other resources to get started in the classroom and beyond. Lulzbot 3D Printers Lulzbot 3D printers were designed to for the home hobbyist…
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History Digital IS Workshop
This workshop is to help guide you through the use of oral history and video techniques while crafting your documentary/oral history project. Resources Copyright and other Information Creative Commons Oral History Handout from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Oral History Guide from UC Santa Cruz Library Books about Oral History Doing Oral…
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Making Graphs with Plotly
In this workshop, we will learn how to make interactive graphs using Plotly, a free online graphing website used and trusted by fortune 500 companies. During the workshop we will plot data from the Titanic incident and we will learn about some of the features that Plotly has to offer. By the end of this…
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Clicking is Learning?
Educational Technology’s own, Megan Smeznik, wrote an article for the National Council on Public History about the challenges and the opportunities for crafting a digital history pedagogy. She emphasizes in the article about the importance of all those invested in the information community coming together and developing a holistic pedagogy that not only promotes scholarship…
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Wooster Digital History Project Workshops
Welcome to the page for Wooster Digital History Project’s workshop resources and other information that you may find useful for the Wooster Digital History Project. If you have any questions or find yourself in need of assistance with the technology, please reach out to Megan Smeznik, Educational Technology Associate at msmeznik@wooster.edu. Clio Steps to Login…
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Adobe Illustrator Basics
Agenda This workshop provides tools and resources to make basic flat designs by using Illustrator. Attendees will create a full-featured graphic design with variation of colors and shapes. Agenda By the end of this session, attendees will Learn how to use the Ai interface Know what is flat design Know how to set up a…
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What’s a Digital IS?
Have you ever thought of what research could look like in a digital space? Do you like to try new things or digital tools? This co-sponsored workshop hosted by Educational Technology and The College of Wooster Libraries will help give you a leg up on competition by thinking critically about the aspects of a digital…
