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 College has been Sakai. Sakai is an open-source community-driven Learning Management System that offers flexible and customizable options to students, faculty, and staff that fits…
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Classroom AR in an Online World
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, architecture to invasive surgery. AR blends digital information with the physical-world environments, enabling users to interact with virtual objects and view the physical environment. In…
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 allows the Pomona community to develop materials such as lectures, virtual field trips, demonstrations, and more. For ITS, VidGrid proved crucial in training sessions offered…
Proposals due: Friday, May 14, 2021 Decisions announced: Early June 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 between ITS and the Dean’s office, the Hahn Fund, was established to support teaching with…
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Of Cold Bernie and Space Cows
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 an online learning format. As with so many things during the age of Covid, it was as much a learning experience for the instructor as…
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 provides how-to information about Pomona College systems and services, empowering our community to solve technical issues independently. The Knowledge Base is especially useful after hours…
“A woman must have money, and a room of her own, if she is to write fiction.” A Room of One’s Own (1929) – Virginia Woolf Pomona College now offers all students, faculty, and staff their own domain and hosted webspace. This new service empowers users to become active participants in their experience of the…
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What’s New in Sakai?
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. Some of the most exciting changes include a new Commons Tool, enhancements made to the Gradebook, and new features in Lessons. The New Commons Tool…
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 the field of computational chemistry, which uses powerful computer simulations to solve chemical problems, has exploded. Researchers around the world can now use computer simulations…
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 to a traditional paper notebook. What makes it unique, however, is not its high-tech functionality but rather its low-tech nature. E-Ink, sometimes called e-paper, mimics…