by nswinehart | Mar 17, 2020 | Remote Teaching
By this point, if you are teaching this Spring you should have received an email from IT Services about your Zoom account. At present, you will use your CNET and password to log in to Zoom, and there are three different ways you can log in: Going to...
by nswinehart | Mar 13, 2020 | Remote Teaching
Thank you to the 90+ participants who were able to attend the webinar live. A recording of the webinar can be found at https://youtu.be/EkjBU8Fu0VA, and embedded below. The video may still be processing, and we are working to add/improve the quality of the captions as...
by nswinehart | Mar 11, 2020 | Remote Teaching
Ready or not, online teaching has arrived at UChicago. Here we will cover two topics regarding UChicago going online for Spring 2020: 1) how to prioritize your online transition, and 2) how the Language Center is helping with the transition. Please also note that here...
by nswinehart | May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is Box?? ‘Box’ is a cloud storage service, similar to Google Drive or Dropbox. The University of Chicago has a site license with Box, so that you have free unlimited storage when you log in with your CNET-ID. There are many useful things you can do...
by nswinehart | Feb 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you have large video files, you have (at least) 3 options for getting them into Canvas: Upload them directly to Canvas like you would a PDF. Upload them to Box and insert a link within Canvas. Upload to Kaltura and embed within Canvas. Option 1 is undesirable...
by nswinehart | Mar 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, March 1st, Nick Swinehart gave a workshop on the basics of AntConc, a concordancer tool that can analyze any language. Below are some resources from that workshop, and here is a tutorial series from its creator, Dr. Laurence Anthony. Please contact Nick...