Social Media Analytical – Netlytic

Netlytic is an open-source and community-supported analytical tool that can summarize and visualize large volumes of text and discover social networks from conversations on social media sites such as Twitter, Youtube, blogs, online forums and chats. Read more …… Continue reading »

Twitter Analytical – SocioViz

SoicoViz is a social media analytics platform that can help you to analyze large volumes of text in terms of hashtags to identify key influencers, opinions and contents from conversations on Twitter. Read more …… Continue reading »

MasteryPaths and Differentiate Assignments

Differentiate Assignment is a built-in feature of Glow that lets you create different due dates and/or availability dates for content releases. MasteryPaths, also a built-in feature of Glow, is based on differentiate Assignment. When both used together, they allow you to design and customize the learning experiences of each student… Continue reading »

Lightboard and Lecture Capture

The Lightboard is a low technology solution that facilitates the recording of good quality instructional videos without any post-production editing. It’s a piece of transparent glass-like ‘whiteboard’ illuminated with LED lights. Read more …… Continue reading »

How do I merge multiple sections into a single section?

At Williams, a GLOW (Canvas) course typically contains only one Section (defined student enrollment) per course based on the course schedule. Typically, this is to accommodate courses with large enrollments where lectures, labs, or other course sessions have been scheduled to occur during different dates or times. However, faculty who… Continue reading »

What’s my GLOW username & password?

Your GLOW login is your username (the one *without* @williams.edu), the same username that you use to login to the Password Changer. The password for GLOW is the same one you use for your email and most other College services. You can change your password, and retrieve lost passwords at… Continue reading »

January workshop series

January 5, 10:00-1:00, Faculty House:  Grant-writing.  Jennifer Hermanski from the Office of Corporate and Foundations relations and the Dean of Faculty’s office will give an overview of funding opportunities both on and off-campus, and the resources we have to help you find appropriate funding agencies, as… Continue reading »

January workshop series

This January, the Dean of Faculty’s office is teaming up with OIT, the Library and the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations to offer a series of workshops on a variety of tools and resources that you may not have had a chance to use yet.   The workshops will… Continue reading »