ITS along with the Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the 2024-25 awardees of the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant. Supported by the Hahn Fund for Innovation, Hahn Teaching with…
When Pomona College faculty walked into the Cowart ITS Building Tech Classroom on an early Tuesday morning in mid-May, they expected to spend the next three days dutifully learning how…
Sakai to Canvas Transition: Concerns, Training,& Timing Survey Findings As the academic landscape continues to evolve, so do the tools and platforms that support teaching and learning. In early April,…
“Yeah, we should go next time…pretty soon there won’t be any more next times.” For a group of soon-to-be graduating seniors at Pomona, this simple phrase uttered amongst friends naturally…
ITS along with the Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the 2023-24 awardees of the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant. Supported by the Hahn Fund for Innovation, Hahn Teaching with…
About the Spring 2023 Pilot During the Spring 2023 semester, Canvas was utilized by a growing number of students, instructors and courses, building on the success of the Fall 2022…
Pilot Background In the early 2000s, The Claremont Colleges deployed a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) solutions – Moodle at Pomona College, WebCT at Claremont McKenna College, and Sakai…
ITS along with the Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the 2022-23 awardees of the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant. Supported by the Hahn Fund for Innovation, Hahn Teaching with…
Some Background In spring 2022, ITS began efforts to migrate faculty from the College’s aging, in-house, academic video service, known as Video47. The migration began in earnest by summer 2022,…
It is important to keep up professionally, staying abreast with those technologies applied in teaching and scholarship so that we can support the Pomona community. We in RITG are fortunate…
ITS is pleased to announce awardees of the Pomona College Technology Fund. To capitalize on our capabilities and infrastructure and to engender collaborative practices with Pomona faculty, we are experimenting…
A First-Generation Low-Income (FLI) Student’s Reflections After completing finals last spring and returning to the comforting recluse of my parent’s home, a reflection of my first year on campus was…
Summer is upon us! This will be the last RITG blog post until next fall. We’ll be working on various projects over the summer–some of which involve you–that we hope…
A visit to the Foreign Language Resource Center (FLRC), one of the various departmental labs at Pomona As we quest to innovate and use technology to enhance teaching and learning…
Have you been overwhelmed with endless piles of papers or other assignments to grade? Are you looking for a useful and reliable assessment tool? Do you have a list of…
High performance computer (HPC) does not refer to a single fast computer but rather a set of computers that work together to run various complex computations, such as DNA analysis,…
I know we’ve been dangling the 2022-2023 Hahn Grant cycle carrot in front of you since February, so without further ado, I am pleased to announce that the call for…
As the group in ITS that collaborates with Pomona College faculty to bring excellence, enhanced by technology, to scholarship and pedagogy, we stay up to date with educational research and the…
As I’ve gotten older, the mental distinction between being informed and educated has only become more and more apparent. Struggling through a final exam season full of lecture review, textbook…
Haaaaave you met Ed? No, not Ted, Ed. C’mon, I’ll introduce you. Meet My Friend, Ed Ed, like me, is new to Pomona College. We both started in January 2022….
ITS recently sent out a survey to solicit feedback on the homegrown video-streaming application, Video47, which many Pomona College staff and faculty use to share educational videos with students. The…
After a recent examination of the most frequently asked Sakai questions, we (RITG) developed a top skills list to help serve the Pomona community. This list pulls together some of…
Last week’s blog post outlines the presentations given at what we are confidently calling the First Annual Hahn Event. We do mean to have more such events, and we hope…
Though held on a surprisingly cold and rainy day, the energy behind the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant Program Project Showcase remained joyous, especially with it being the first annual…
Earlier in the term, I wrote about BioChemAR: Macromolecular 3D visualizations in the classroom, a case study with examples of using Augmented Reality (AR) in the classroom. In the third part…
Last term, I wrote about Classroom Augmented Reality in an Online World. In this post, I will give a real-world example of using Augmented Reality for teaching undergraduate students the three-dimensional…
We are excited to introduce a new version of Sakai each summer. The annual update brings a variety of new features alongside hundreds of bug fixes, all in the hopes…
As we continue to transition to face-to-face teaching and learning, it’s helpful for faculty to pause and check in with their students on how things are going—what’s working well and…
Images play a vital role in communicating information to readers. While the first article in our simplified visual design for effective learning focused on space and hierarchy, this one will focus…
Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) are, at their simplest, a digital version of the traditional bound paper notebook. While I’m unaware if any Pomona faculty have adopted ELNs for their courses,…
Thoughtful planning and design of a course and its materials are rudimentary for student success. While visual design can often take a back seat in planning a course, visuals and…
In preparation for the fall 2021 semester, we are introducing a new version of Sakai. This update comes with a variety of changes and improvements, all of which aim to make Sakai…
A new academic year is underway and ITS is thrilled to welcome everyone back to campus! Over the summer, we have been hard at work to ensure an improved teaching…
ITS is pleased to announce awardees of the Pomona College Technology Fund. To capitalize on our capabilities and infrastructure and to engender collaborative practices with Pomona faculty, we are experimenting…
ITS along with the Dean’s Office is pleased to announce this year’s awardees of the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant. Supported by the Hahn Fund for Innovation, Hahn Teaching with…
Summer is upon us! Starting next week, ITS will be taking a break from posting news on a weekly basis until classes are back in session this Fall. We will,…
As we approach the end of the Spring 2021 semester, we would like to give a BIG thanks to all our student employees for their dedication and hard work throughout…
Like most colleges across the nation, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pomona College shifted to online-only instruction and remained that way for two semesters. As a liberal arts college,…
The shift to online learning at Pomona College has opened up new avenues for faculty and staff to connect with students through technology. One such tool for librarians at Pomona…
Augmented Reality (AR) has seen massive growth in education with an estimated $700 million being invested in AR/VR applications in education by 2025, on simulations for everything from forklift operations,…
Over the last year, many faculty members have turned to numerous tools offered by ITS to create content for online learning. One crucial tool in this shift has been VidGrid. VidGrid…
Apply at: Teaching and Learning Innovation RFP – Hahn 2021 In 2020, ITS offered funding to support the shift to online teaching and learning through the Hahn Fund. A collaborative effort…
ITS recently held online introductory Adobe Photoshop classes for Faculty and Staff. While the department periodically hosts Photoshop classes, this was the first time that the material was presented in…
Pomona College ITS is excited to announce a restructuring of our ITS Knowledge Base, which helps students, faculty, and staff find answers to technology questions quickly. Our ITS Knowledge Base…
Recent updates to Sakai offer an improved teaching and learning experience for faculty and students. These updates include new features, enhancements to existing features, and fixes to several known bugs….
Over the last five years, computers have become as synonymous with chemists as test tubes. The considerable increase in computing power and decrease in cost during that time has meant…
Linguistics and Cognitive Science department chair Michael Diercks has discovered a new tool that has revolutionized the way he works: the reMarkable2, an e-ink tablet. The tablet offers an alternative…
ITS has developed a wealth of resources to help faculty prepare for the spring semester. Whether you’re teaching remotely for the first time or you’re looking for ways to enhance…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the funding period in 2020 was dedicated to support the important and timely effort of course redesign and development. Specifically, the Hahn Fund provided stipends to faculty…
The following faculty received a Hahn Grant award: Smiley Blackard (Psychology) Patricia Blessings (Art History) George Gorse (Art History) Janice Hudgings (Physics) Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) John Moore…
The following faculty received a Hahn Grant award: Phil Choi (Physics and Astronomy) Alfred Cramer (Music) George Gorse (Art History) Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) Sherry Linnell (Theatre) Marc…
The following faculty received a Hahn Grant award: Rita Bashaw (Oldenborg) Mark Caspary (Theatre) Alex Chi La (Athletics) Mike Diercks (Linguistics Cognitive Science) George Gorse (Art History) Michael Greenberg (Computer…
