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Spring 2023

• Apr. 4 – After the research is over: Communicating your scholarship by Jeanine Finn and Jennifer Beamer, Honnold LibraryCaptioned Video Recording)

Spring 2022

• Mar. 7 – Understanding the AI Alignment Problem, James Lucassen (HMC ’23) (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Apr. 15 – Everything You Wanted to Know About Canvas, But Were Afraid to Ask, Isabel Balseiro (HSA), Elizabeth Hodas (C)S), James Sadler (CIS), Yi Luo (CIS) (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Fall 2022

• Sep. 12 – Flipping Newtonian Mechanics by Mark Ilton (Physics), Nicholas Breznay (Nicholas Breznay) and Yi Luo (CIS) Closed Captioned Video Recording
• Oct. 27 – Multimedia Lesson Materials in Sakai by Lucas Bang and Erin Talvitie (CS)

Spring 2022

• Mar. 7 – Understanding the AI Alignment Problem, James Lucassen (HMC ’23) (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Apr. 15 – Everything You Wanted to Know About Canvas, But Were Afraid to Ask, Isabel Balseiro (HSA), Elizabeth Hodas (C)S), James Sadler (CIS), Yi Luo (CIS) (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Spring 2020

• Feb. 3 – Open Educational Resources and the Library by Jennifer Beamer, Honnold Library (Closed Captioned Video Recording) (Feb. 3 Presentation Slides)
• Feb. 24 – Enhancing Instructional Content in Sakai with Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning by James Sadler and Yi Luo, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Mar. 24 – Live Captions in the Classroom by James Sadler, CIS, HMC
• Apr. 10 – Using Toonly to Create Animated Explainer Videos for Climate Change Communication by Lelia Hawkins, Chemistry, HMC

Fall 2019

• Sept. 17 – A Playground to Explore Technology: Pomona College Expands the Innovation Lab by Asya Shklyar, Pomona College (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Oct. 7 – Data Science at The Claremont Colleges: Creating a Curriculum That Makes Sense for One and All by Tessa Hicks, Pitzer College (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Oct. 25 – Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab: New tools for Programming Assignments by Liz Connolly, BJ Haddad and Peter Saeta, Physics (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Nov. 18 – Digital Platforms in Disciplinary Contexts by Leigh Lieberman and Aaron Hodges, Honnold Library (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Spring 2019

• Jan. 28 – An Invitation to Kaggle: A Platform for Machine Learning by Aashita Kesarwani, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Feb. 4 – Digital Literacy in the Humanities Classroom by Leigh Lieberman and Aaron Hodges, Honnold Library (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Feb. 15 – Improving the Accessibility of Core Chemistry Online Materials by Lelia Hawkins, Chemistry (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Feb. 22 – Keeping it Legal: Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom by Jennifer Beamer, Honnold Library (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Mar. 8 – The Aero Collections at Harvey Mudd and Special Collections: Everything’s Better with Airplanes! by Michael Palmer, Bates Collection (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Apr. 9 – Save Time and Effort with Gradescope, the Online Grading Platform by Jim Boerkoel, Computer Science, Jae Hur, Biology and Kathy Van Heuvelen, Chemistry (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Apr. 23 – From Paper to Paperless for Course Evaluations: What Motivates Faculty and the Support They Need by Joanne Zhang and Chris Castaneda, Pitzer (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Fall 2018

• Sept. 14 – Digitizing the Vernacular: Zora Neale Hurston in Digital Humanities  by Isabel  Balseiro, HSA, HMC, and Yi Luo, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Oct. 1 – Using Perusall to Help Every Student be Ready for Every Class by Karl Haushalter, Chemistry, HMC, and Danae Shulz, Biology, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Oct. 26 – Have you ever FedExed a hard drive? A study of research data practices at the Claremont Colleges by Jeanine Finn, Honnold Library
• Nov. 30 – Scientific and Research Computing Services at HMC by Aashita Kesarwani, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Dec. 4 – Omeka in the Classroom: Lessons from a Semester-Long Project by Susan Castagnetto, Philosophy, Scripps College, and Kirsten Hansen, Honnold Library (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Spring 2018

• Feb. 23 – Envisioning Data Science at the Claremont Colleges: What Could We Do Together? by Deb Mashek, HSA, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• Mar. 6 – Data-driven Instructional Design Decisions: Assessing Students in Coursera MOOCs by Yi Luo, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• March 23 – Using Cloud AI to Caption Videos: Practicalities and Considerations by James Sadler, CIS, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)
• April 3 – Archaeology, Digital Humanities, and Game Design by Daniel Michon, Religious Studies, CMC
• April 9 – Main Entrance: How the New Claremont Colleges Library Website Will Connect You to Our Resources, Our Services, and Our People by Dave Bolinger, UX Manager and Gabriel Ortiz, UX Web Designer, The Claremont Colleges Library
• April 24 – Five Things You Should Know When You Revamp a Course by Talithia Williams and Susan Martonosi, Mathematics, HMC (Closed Captioned Video Recording)

Fall 2017

• Sept 25 – Digital Humanities: Publishing Student Projects with Scalar by Vivien Hamilton, HSA (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Oct 6 – Advance Your Science with XSEDE’s ECSS Program and the Science Gateways Community Institute by Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Oct 20 – Digital Research & DH at The Claremont Colleges: What Is It and How to Get Involved by Ashley Sanders, Honnold Library (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Nov 6 – Exploring Data Visualization in Augmented Reality With the Microsoft Hololens by James Sadler, CIS (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Nov 17 – Managing Collaborative Research Using Github by Julie Medero, Beth Trushowsky, and Yekaterina (Kate) Kharitonova, CS (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Dec 4 – Crafting the Active Collection: Understanding Library Browsing in the Research Process by Rebecca Lubas and Sarah Pickle, Honnold Library (Video Recording) Closed Captioned

Spring 2017

• Feb. 6 – Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Needs of All Learners by Elly Schofield and James Sadler, CIS (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Feb 24 – Researcher Activity Monitoring and Privacy Protection by Sam Kome, Honnold Library (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• March 28 – Collaborating on Ambiguous Problems with Human Centered Design by Fred Leichter, The Hive (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• April 14 – Introduction to Supercomputing Resources and Expertise at the San Diego Supercomputer Center by Robert Sinkovits, San Diego Supercomputer Center (Video Recording) Closed Captioned

Fall 2016

• Sept. 28 – New Spaces and Resources at the Claremont Colleges Library by Sam Kome, Honnold Library (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Oct. 7 – Gradescope: Faster and Fairer Exam Grading by Chris Stone, Computer Science (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Oct. 28 – The Big Deal about Big Data in Teaching and Research: Challenges and Resources by Weiqing Gu, Mathematics; Geoff Kuenning, Computer Science; and Jeho Park, CIS (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Nov. 4 – Why EdTech Won’t Solve Education by Cori McElwain (’13), Desmos and Denis Lantsman (’10), Desmos (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Nov. 28 – Managing Your Research Team with Slack by Lelia Hawkins, Chemistry (Video Recording) Closed Captioned
• Dec. 5 – How to Self Publish That Book You Have Always Wanted to Write, by Tad Beckman, HSA Emeritus Faculty (Video Recording) Closed Captioned

Spring 2016

• Feb. 10 – Buried in the Mudd: Digging into Film and Video Archives at HMC by Michael Meyka (HMC CIS)
• Feb. 23 – Digital Dialogues: Tools for Communicating and Collaborating Across Campus and Beyond by Elizabeth Hodas, Jeho Park, James Sadler and Elly Schofield (HMC CIS)
• March 7 – Creative Collaborations and the Hive, or Learning to Play Well with Others by Patrick Little (HMC Engineering)
• March 23 – More Than Just a Grade: The Pedagogy and Technology Behind Student Feedback by Elizabeth Connolly (HMC Physics), Theresa Lynn (HMC Physics), Wendy Menefee (HMC Writing Center), Peter Saeta (HMC Physics), and Hal Van Ryswyk (HMC Chemistry)
• April 5 – Show Me the Data!: Research Data Management and Storage by Sam Kome (Honnold Library) and Jeho Park (HMC CIS)
• April 19 – Instructional Design at Harvey Mudd by Elly Schofield (HMC CIS)

Fall 2015

• Sep. 21 – What is DH? And What is it Doing at The Claremont Colleges? by Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College) and Ashley Sanders (Honnold Library)
• Sep. 29 – XSEDE for Humanities Computing by Alan Craig (XSEDE)
• Oct. 27 – Workday: Discover the Company, Technology and our Impact on Higher Education by Daniel Johnson and Mike Barrameda (Workday)
• Nov. 30 – Keeping a Lab Notebook in Evernote, HMC Physics
• Dec. 8 – Using 3D Printing Technology in Teaching and Research, HMC Engineering

Spring 2015

• Feb. 4 – Using Google+ in a Photography Core Lab by Tom Donnelly and Elizabeth Connolly (HMC Physics Department)
• Feb. 17 – Digital Badges and Credentials by Jonathan Finkelstein (Credly)
• March 9 – CCEPS: Where Students Engage With Primary Sources by Gale Burrow and Lisa Crane (Honnold Library)
• March 24 – The Vital Library by Kevin Mulroy (Honnold Library) CANCELLED
• April 3 – A Pilot of Digital Badges at Harvey Mudd by Jeho Park and Elizabeth Hodas (Harvey Mudd College CIS office)
• April 14 – Honnold Library’s New Gateway by Rebecca Lubas and Sam Kome (Honnold Library)
• April 27 – MOOC-Making at Mudd: Updates and Best Practices by Elly Schofield (Harvey Mudd College MOOC Program Director)

Fall 2014

• Oct. 1 – Motivating Computer Science With Google Glass by Zoab Kapoor ’17 and Jon Finnell ’16
• Oct. 13 – Mobile iPad Lab: Connecting Virtual and Physical Resources by Danielle Brecher and Natalie Tagge (Honnold Library)
• Oct. 31 – Simulcasting in the Shanahan Center by James Sadler (CIS)
• Nov. 4 – Expanding Computational Research Capabilities With XSEDE by Shifrah Aron-Dine ’16, Josh Sanz ’15 and Lori Bassman (Harvey Mudd College Engineering)
• Nov. 24 – CCEPS: Where Students Engage With Primary Sources by Gale Burrow and Lisa Crane (Honnold Library) (cancelled)
• Dec. 10 – The Ups and Downs of Teaching With Quadcopters… by Zach Dodds (Harvey Mudd College Computer Science)

Spring 2014

• Feb. 10 – So Whatever Happened at Honnold? by Sam Kome (Claremont Library)
• Feb. 26 – Ready, Sign up, and Compute on DiaGrid! by Carol Song (Purdue University)
• March 11 – The HMC Faculty Web Portal by Gerald Reyes (HMC)
• April 15 – Exploring Google Glass by Char Booth and Danielle Brecher (Claremont Library)
• April 23 – Constructing and Deconstructing MOOCs by Elly Shofield ’13

Fall 2013

• Oct. 1 – Robotics: Motivation for Learning by Chris Clark (HMC)
• Oct. 18 – iRubric: Applications for Baseline Assessment in Writing by Steve Casper and Lindsay Janssen (KGI)
• Nov. 13 – Open Access Online Journal Publishing and Scholarship at the Claremont Colleges: More access, more eyes by Allegra Swift (Claremont Colleges Library)
• Nov. 19 – Going paperless for course evaluations: our experience piloting CoursEval by Joanne Zhang and Barbara Junisbai (Pitzer)
• Dec. 6 – Research with Style! XSEDE Supercomputers and Campus Champions by Katherine Van Heuvelen, Kevin Heath, Jeho Park (HMC)

Spring 2013

• Feb. 5 – Student Perceptions of Technology and the Library: Results of the 2012 Student Library Survey by Sara Lowe (Honnold/Mudd Library)
• Feb. 18 – Supercomputing in Plain English by Dr. Henry Neeman (Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research, University of Oklahoma)
• March 7 – Five Years of Using Google Apps for Education at Macalester College by Josh Allen (Academic Information Associate for Sciences), Brad Belbas (Academic Information Associate for Social Sciences), Fritz Vandover (Academic Information Associate for Humanities, Macalester College)
• March 26 – Going Public: Using New Media to Share Research Results with Non-Specialists by Prof. Paul Steinberg (HMC, HSA)
• April 12 – MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses by Dr. Jane Manning (Manager of Online Course Production and Platforms, Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning, Stanford University)
• April 17 – Canvas: A New Course Management System by Prof. Ran Libeskind-Hadas (HMC, CS)
• April 25 – Experimenting with the Flipped Classroom Model at HMC by Profs. Karl Haushalter (Chemistry), Nancy Lape (Engineering), Rachel Levy (Math), Darryl Yong (Math), and Jacqueline Dresch (Math)

Fall 2012

• Sep. 19 – Scheduling Office Hours with the Google Appointment Slots Tool by Elizabeth Hodas (HMC CIS)
• Oct. 8 – Explore Your Musical Creativity with Impro-Visor by Prof. Bob Keller (HMC CS)
• Oct. 30 – This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One by Prof. Jacqueline Wernimont (Scripps)
• Nov. 8 – The Art of Computer Integration in Construction by Dan Stafford (Matt Construction)
• Nov. 19 – Experiments in Lecture Capture by James Sadler (HMC CIS)
• Nov. 30 – Answering Student Questions with Piazza by Prof. Chris Stone (HMC CS)
• Dec. 11 – XSEDE Campus Champion: eXtra Help for eXtreme Compute Power by Dr. Jeho Park (HMC CIS)

Spring 2012

• Jan. 23 – Wireless PDF Projection and Annotation with Air Sketch on an iPad by Prof. David Vosburg (Chemistry, HMC)
• Feb. 1 – Green Screen: Environmental Documentaries, Video47, and the Classroom by Char Miller (Environmental Analysis, Pomona)
• Feb. 21 – Unintentionally Secret Technology at the Library – Little Known Things That Will Help You Use the Library by Sean Stone (Honnold/Mudd Library)
• March 5 – Collaborating with Google Apps for Education by Calvin Tong (CIS, HMC)
• March 19 – Classroom Walls that Talk: Using Learning Analytics to Raise Awareness of Underperforming Students by John Fritz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• April 4 – What Students Really Think about Clickers: Results of Student Surveys by Elizabeth Hodas (CIS, HMC)
• April 17 – Using Social Media to Bring Research Ideas Alive by Paul Steinberg (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, HMC)

Fall 2011

• Sep. 19 – Lecture Capture in the Learning Studio Classroom by Michael Meyka and James Sadler (CIS)
• Oct. 5 – History Speaks! in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library by Carrie Marsh (The Library)
• Oct. 28 – Sakai Roadmap: Sakai CLE and Sakai OAE – What’s the Difference? by Elizabeth Hodas (CIS)
• Nov. 8 – Mindomo Mapping: Visualizing Concepts and Curricula by Char Booth (The Library)
• Nov. 21 – Upgrade Your Studying With Learnstream by Camille Marvin ’12 and Ryan Muller ’11 (HMC)
• Dec. 8 – Paperless Note Taking: Experience with the Livescribe Pen and Other Technologies by Greg Lyzenga ’75 (HMC)

Spring 2011

• Feb. 8 – Sakai 3: What’s next with Sakai by Elizabeth Hodas, CIS
• Feb. 22 – Faculty Technology Grants by  Jeff Groves, Bob Borrelli and Bill Alves
• March 1 – Assessment with iClickers by Katherine Maloney and Eric Ditwiler
• March 22 – Sherlock Search and other news from the Library by Sam Kome
• April 5 – Backing Up Your Computer by Calvin Tong
• April 7 – Desperately Seeking House Elves: Classification and Computational Folkloristics by Tim Tangherlini, UCLA
• April 19 – Lecture Capture by Vatche Sahakian

Fall 2010

• Sep. 21 – Zotero and RefWorks: Two great research tools by Sam Kome, Honnold/Mudd Library
• Oct. 11 (Monday) – Learnstream: Building a revolutionary online learning platform by Ryan Muller and Neal Pisenti, HMC ’11
• Oct. 26 – BE Press: A new resource at the Library for electronic publishing by Allegra Gonzalez, Honnold/Mudd Library
• Nov. 9 – Digital Archaeology and the Qumran Visualization Project by Dr. Robert Cargill, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
• Nov 23. – iRubric for Sakai by Ramesh Sabetiashraf, Reazon Systems, Inc.
• Dec. 7 – YouTube at HMC by Judy Augsburger and Leigh Devereaux, College Relations, and Prof. Rachel Mayeri, HSA

Spring 2010

• Jan. 26 – Introduction to RefWorks by Jezmine Dene, Honnold Library
• Feb. 02 – Timeline and Sign-Up tools by Elizabeth Hodas, HMC CIS
• Feb. 16 – Wireless Projectors by James Sadler, HMC CIS
• Feb. 23 – Cool Tools by Jezmine Dene, Honnold Library
• March 02 – Sakai Tips and Tricks by Elizabeth Hodas, HMC CIS and Jezmynne Dene, Honnold Library
• March 09 – VIPEr: Using Web 2.0 tools to foster distance collaboration by Adam Johnson, HMC Physics, and Ethan Benatan, Reed College IT
• March 23 – Improve your Googling! by Jezmynne Dene, Honnold Library
• March 30 – The Matlab TAH license by Calvin Tong, HMC CIS
• April 06 – The TeamBoard Interactive Whiteboard by Egan TeamNoard Inc.
• April 13 –  Assigning Student Video Projects in Your Syllabus by Prof. Erika Dyson, HSA
• April 20 – Using iClickers in the Classroom by Prof. David Harris, Engineering and Prof. Kerry Karukstis, Chemistry
• April 27 – gridMathematica by Dr. Jeho Park, CIS

2020

• Prof. Timothy J. Tsai: ENG208 – Aashita Kesarwani worked with Prof. TJ Tsai in designing the elective course ENG208 that covers the deep learning applications in signal processing by brainstorming the syllabus and course structure, designing three assignments that involved coding neural networks from scratch, setting up autograding with help from student interns, and consulting on multiple aspects of computing packages and environments to be used for this course.
• CTL Online Learning Course – ARCS worked with the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning to develop an online course in Sakai. The course focused on helping faculty pivot from in person classes to online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Orientation 2020 – The ARCS team collaborated with the Division of Student Affairs to design and create a Sakai site for HMC Orientation 2020 since Orientation was not able to be held in person.

2019

• Vatche Sahakian: Physics – JupyterHub server – Aashita Kesarwani, the Research Computing and Data Science Specialist, installed a JupyterHub server on Prof. Sahakian’s Kepler GPU machine that serves multiple users with a uniform computing environment via a web-based interface. It was set up with Julia kernel and nbgrader for autograding and is used for teaching classes as well as research work.
• Jessica Wu: CS – Aashita Kesarwani assisted Prof. Jessica Wu by guiding student interns in finding datasets and creating the coding assignments for her course in data science ethics.
• Matthew Spencer: E80 – ARCS worked with an electrical engineering faculty to create the instructional materials for the 6 labs in his course. The materials created for each lab include a lab prompt, a lab report rubric, a peer review feedback form for lab reports, and an assessment sheet for graders.
• Julie Medero & Lucas Bang: CS70 – ARCS team helped faculty from the Department of Computer Science create a seamless learning experience for students. Sakai, Gradescope, GitHub Classroom, GitHub, and Docker were integrated into this course. You can read more about this project in the ARCS Projects Spotlight 2019.
• Lelia Hawkins: Chem 41 – James Sadler and Yi Luo worked with Professor Hawkins to create training material to teach her students how to use the Toonly software to create and edit informative animated videos. Once the material was created they offered a class session to walk the students through how to use the software.

2018

• Isabel Balseiro: HMC LIT 179X – ARCS helped design the course syllabus, project instructions, assessments, and workshops to integrate Scalar, an open-source scholarly publishing tool that can be used to create media-rich content, into this course. ARCS also taught two workshops on Scalar in class in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2018. Scalar technical support was also provided to faculty and students.
• Kate Kharitonova: CS121 – ARCS worked with a computer science faculty to create instructional materials such as a course syllabus, Github learning resources, and a student feedback survey for this course.
• Tableau visualizations of WHAM data – The ARCS scientific computing intern, Chukwudi Oguejiofor, worked with the HMC Teaching and Learning committee to visualize data collected through the Workload and Health at Mudd (WHAM) surveys using Tableau.

2017

• Julie Medero, Beth Trushowsky, Yekaterina (Kate) Kharitonov: CS70 – ARCS created training materials, FAQs and instructional videos for CS 70 in order to help students who are coming to the course without much experience in using Linux and Github.
• You can read more about this project in the ARCS Projects Spotlight 2017.
• F&M: Galileo Redesign – ARCS worked with the Facilities and Maintenance Department to design the audiovisual systems during the renovation of the Galileo Auditoria. This included the video projection, assisted listening, lecture capture, and audio distribution systems.
• Talithia Williams, Susan Martonosi, Kenji Koza: Math35 – ARCS worked closely with the faculty to develop course content, course assignments, and user guides to support the transition from using Minitab to R, an open source statistics package, for Math 35.

2016

• Satyan Devadoss: Website for student projects in computational geometry
• Lelia Hawkins & Rachel Levy: Developing an R package for atmospheric sample data analysis and visualization

2015

• Albert Dato: Interactive Simulation – Using a game engine, create an interactive experience for students to