Two new Learning Communities!

Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges are pleased to continue our collaborative project hosted by Carleton’s Information Technology Services and Gould Library, and St. Olaf’s Information & Instructional Technology departments.  Both campuses will host an iPad Learning Community and an eText Learning Community throughout the winter and spring terms, including both separate and joint meetings between the faculty participants at each campus. 

Faculty and staff from each of the campuses will work together to explore the wide range of capabilities of the iPad with a critical eye towards its use in higher education.  Each meeting will have a theme and be have co-conveners , but participants are strongly encouraged to share their own findings in each meeting.  We will also have 2 joint meetings with St. Olaf participants when we can share our findings with our colleagues from across the river. 

Carleton faculty are always welcome to join the parallel sessions at St. Olaf, if the Carleton schedule does not always work for them.

Carleton faculty participants who do not already have one will be lent an iPad to use for the duration of the program and receive funding to purchase apps.

Inquiries can be directed to Carly Born, cborn@carleton.edu or x7010.

iPad Learning Community - Schedule of Meetings

The iPad Learning Community will meet on select Tuesdays from 3:15-4:15pm in Sayles-Hill 251, excepting Feb 26th which will be held in Hill Lounge.

• Feb 12^th, 3:15pm – iPad as eReader, Media Player, Notebook & Communication Device
• Feb 26^th, 3:15pm (Hill Lounge) – iPad as Research Portal & Annotation Device
• Mar 12^th, 4:45pm - 6:30pm in WCC 236 - Joint Meeting with St. Olaf participants @ Carleton
• Apr 2nd 3:15pm – iPad as a Document and Presentation Creator
• Apr 16^th, 3:15pm – iPad as Data, Photo, Video Collection & Mapping Device
• Apr 30th, 3:15pm  – iPad as Multimedia Studio
• Week of May 13th - Joint Meeting with St. Olaf participants @ St. Olaf

eText Learning Community - Schedule of Meetings

The eText Learning Community has decided to join forces with the group at St. Olaf. We have cancelled our Friday morning meetings and will now meet on Thursdays at 8:30am in Buntrock 142. Contact Carly Born for more information.

• Feb 15^th, 9:40am – Introduction to eTexts: Overview of Types of eTexts, Formats, and Distribution Models
• Feb 28th, 8:30am – Working with eTexts: Downloading, Annotating, Highlighting, and Bookmarking eTexts
• Mar 12th, 4:45pm - 6:30pm in WCC 236 - Joint Meeting with St. Olaf participants @ Carleton
• Apr 4th 8:30am – Intro to iBooks Author (or Pages?) - making your interactive syllabus - using keynote with iBooks Author, content design and arrangement (pressbooks.com)
• Apr 18th, 8:30am – Formats and Distribution methods - author rights and proprietary, open access, self-publishing
• May 2nd, 8:30am  – Show and Tell - wrap up, things that you have made, things that you like
• Week of May 13th - Joint Meeting with St. Olaf participants @ St. Olaf

Application for Participation

Please use the links below to sign up for one of the Learning Communities.  Because space is limited, please sign up for only group to allow a greater number of people to participate.  There will be no stipends or gift cards offered to participants of either group.