The Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative (DLAC) is a team of academic technologists and digital liberal arts specialists who support the incorporation of digital methods, applications, and practices into the teaching, learning, research, and scholarly life of the Grinnell College community. Positioned at the intersection of academic technology, the learning sciences, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, DLAC helps faculty, staff, and students think about the digital information ecosystem and design and implement effective practices for our learning and work. DLAC partners with other colleagues at the College who are engaged in supporting the digital liberal arts, such as the Libraries, Information Technology Services, and the Data and Social Inquiry Lab (DASIL).
Our projects span a broad range of academic and professional domains, both across the formal curriculum as well as the work of various offices, departments, and units of the College. We consult with faculty and help them design digital assignments, giving their students the opportunity to construct and present their knowledge in diverse modalities of form and media. We work with students to build their digital competencies and literacies and to prepare them to navigate the complex information landscape of our world. We help college programs and offices to improve the effectiveness of their workflows and to showcase the resources and services they offer to the college community.
“Teaching with Technology Fair”
Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, Noon–1 p.m., Rosenfield Center, Room 101
The Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative sponsored the annual Teaching with Technology Fair to showcase innovative uses of digital methods, applications, and practices among Grinnell College faculty and students. The fair is an opportunity for faculty to share and discuss ideas for effective uses of technology in teaching and learning and to recognize faculty and students for their work in creatively integrating technology and pedagogy.
Our 2023 presenters are:
- Jon Andelson, Mark Baechtel, Mark McFate, and student: “Rootstalk: A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts”
- Belinda Backous and Kate Ferraro: “Tutorial Plus: Short Instructional Videos for Flipped Learning”
- Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and student: “Edith Renfrow’s Girlhood in Grinnell, 1915–1937”
- Catherine Chou and HIS 283/233 students: “Publishing with Pressbooks”
- Chris French and students: “Virtual Surfaces: Using Virtual Reality to Help Students Understand Geometric Structures in Calculus”
- Priscilla Jimenez and student: “Co-Designing Software Products: A Learning by Doing Approach in Studying Software Development”
- Laura Michelson and student: “Salisbury House Library Collection Digital Projects”
- Clara Montague and student: “Women's Studies Worldwide”
- Nick Phillips, Tierney Steelberg, and students: “Digital Pedagogies of Spanish Detective Fiction”
- Sarah Purcell and students: “Mapping Iowa Black Churches”
- Fredo Rivera and students: “Haitian Art Digital Crossroads”
- Erik Simpson: “CATPAW: Computer-Aided Thinking, Primarily about Writing”
- GrinTECH students: “GrinTECH: Technology Events for Social Good”
Tech fair brochure (PDF) login required and Tech Fair website
