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Pomona’s Hidden Teaching and Learning Spaces

 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 at Pomona College, sometimes this requires the use of spaces that exceed the abilities of our technology-enhanced classrooms so we can better work with and…

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Haaaaave You Met Ed?

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. Ed’s favorite color is purple. They wear it all the time. An introverted extravert, Ed adores conversation but tends to let others do the talking…

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Student Reflections on Teaching Practices Worth Keeping in a Post-Pandemic Pomona

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, Pomona’s raison d’etre is in the high quality of undergraduate in-person teaching, something that distance learning imperiled. To maintain the thriving student-professor interaction that characterized on-campus learning,…

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Using VidGrid to Create Community during Online Learning

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…