Listed below are examples of sites developed using curricular applications such as Segue, WordPress, MediaWiki and Measure.

Curricular resource sites have been created for each Language School.  These sites contain links to many of the resources that faculty and students use in their programs of study.  Some schools maintain these sites themselves, other schools rely on us for updates.  Many of these sites have been ported from static html pages into Segue.

The Curricular Technology group has worked closely with faculty to develop online assessments.  Many of these were developed for second language study programs in the Language Schools and foreign language departments.  Most of these are placement exams, others function as entrance and exit exams.  Nearly all of these exams are contained in Measure, our instance of the Moodle learning management system customized for use at Middlebury and integrated with Segue.

A number of courses have used WordPress for their course sites or in addition to their course sites.  As well, a number of departments and services have blogs.

Here are examples of academic department or services blogs:

Film and Media
Music Library
Peer Writing Tutors

Here are some examples of blogs used for courses:

Since the first implementations of the MP3 open standard in 1999, language learning audio resources in analog format (e.g. audio cassette tape, compact disc) have been converted into digital form and delivered to students via the web.  As well, since 2000, many video resources have also been digitized and made available via the web.  In 2003, we began to embed metadata in our MP3 resources and either packaging them up for single download or including them in RSS feeds so that this material could be loaded onto mobile devices.  The Language School portals have links to these resources.  We also maintain multimedia lexical databases of core vocabulary for less commonly taught languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic.

The Virtual Worlds at Middlebury site distributes and disseminates information about virtual worlds created by the Middlebury College Educational Technology department. We are currently using Sauerbraten, Vizard, Second Life, and Unity.

Recently there have been a number of purposes for virtual worlds.  Projects have included maps made for psychological research, maps of ancient structures used for virtual tours and in the future using virtual worlds to create interactive classroom assignments.

One course has used MediaWiki for course material:

FMMC0246 Media Technology & Cultural Change
(Jason Mittel)

The Curricular Technology group has done much research and development related to mobile devices such as iPods and maintains an iPods in Education site that is also consistently listed on the first page of Google searches for “ipods education.”  This site contains web-based slides of numerous presentations done at various conferences. 

Closely related to this site in the iPods and 2nd Language Acquistion site which includes links to various language learning resource sites we have created that contain media files formatted for use on mobile devices.  As well the site has descriptions of our summer pilot programs in the Language Schools and a blog on Language School resource development.

Closely related, perhaps even synonymous with “curricular technologies” are “technologies for teaching, learning and research” (TTLR).  In short, the “academic” use of a variety of technologies, some of which are unique to academia, some of which are aids to instruction, education and/or research and many of which are emerging out of our networked, digital culture and seeping into educational institutions.  We have created a couple of sites for this area that complement the Curricular Technologies site.  Last spring we initiated a limited access TTLR site for administration purposes that attempted to bring some coherence and greater collaboration to the initiatives, proposals, projects and activities that fall into this area.  More recently, we created another public TTLR site that documents some of the technologies available at Middlebury for teaching, learning and research.

These sites also attempt to make at least a semantic connection with the Center for Teaching, Learning and Research (CTLR).  Indeed, many people in the CTLR make use of technologies we have created and describe in the TTLR sites and so a natural relationship between these areas exists.  Unfortunately, there are significant organizational divisions that make it difficult to nurture this relationship.

The Curricular Technology group maintains a curricular technologies site that has been consistently listed on the first page of Google searches for “curricular technologies.”  This is in part because most institutions refer to the use of technology for teaching, learning and research as “instructional” or “educational” or “academic” technology in the singular.  Our choice of “curricular technologies” reflects the realization that 1) college curriculums use many different technologies and 2) many of the technologies used in the curriculum were not necessarily created for “educational”, “instructional” or even “academic” purposes.  This site contains news about presentations the Curricular Technology group has done over the years, as well as reports from conferences and meetings.

To help “de-mystify the use of digital technologies at Middlebury College,” we have created an educational technology wiki, which contains articles on various technologies, resources, hardware and software, as well as use cases.  Anybody with a Middlebury College user account can add and edit these articles as well as participate in discussions on the site.