Scott Schopieray

Academic Technology & Scholarly Engagement

Posts

  • Planning for a Blended Approach to Teaching Post-Crisis at MSU

    Returning to campus after the events of Feb 13 we find ourselves in a space of continuing to process our own feelings and emotions, caring for others, and providing opportunities and space for all of us to return to our teaching and learning routines. MSU has provided guidance to our community suggesting that we use…

  • Example of KCWorks on WP Block

    This is an example of the KCWorks on WP block that the Mesh Research team created to be able to showcase work deposited in KCWorks on a WordPress page. This can be used to show all of your work, search results from KCWorks, or entire collections from KCWorks. Find out More information about KCWorks on…

  • Displaying Zotero via RSS

    Many of us use it for keeping track of our citations for papers and other academic work. Until recently, the Zotpress plugin was an option for displaying information from our collections on websites, but it is being rewritten and has been removed from the WordPress directory. Poking around I found that Zotero provides an RSS…

  • Short Overview of Archiving Digital Projects

    Below is a portion of an abstract submitted to the Born Digital Collections, Archives, and Memory conference to be held in London in April 2025. As I started to prepare my lightning talk for the conference, I realized a short overview of methods for archiving digital projects might be useful as a reference for those…

  • Connecting ORCID and Knowledge Commons

    I recently posted about the ORCID Global Participation fund grant we received to develop and launch an updated plugin for displaying ORCID data on WordPress-based websites, specifically on Knowledge Commons (KC). This project is vital to our long-term vision of KC as a platform where scholars showcase, conduct and publish their scholarly work and practice. ORCID…

  • Formative Annual Review for CPIL Workshop 11-8-24

    These materials accompany the table discussion I’m facilitating at the CPIL Workshop sponsored by MSU CIRCLE on November 8, 2024. To get a sense of what Formative Annual Review (FAR) is, you can read my post from March 2023 where I lay out the work I did initially on FAR as a part of the…

  • Teaching Resources – Fall Semester Startup Quick Links

    This short guide lists essential teaching resources for getting started in the fall semester each year. Upcoming Events Contacting Your Class The Registrar maintains a registrar’s instructor systems page you can use to contact your class, which you will use for grading and other tasks. You can often access your class list and the email tool before…

  • Why Should Students Publish Work in an Open Access Repositories?

    Last week, I spoke with Deric McNish, our Director of Undergraduate Research in the College of Arts & Letters at MSU. Our topic was how open-access repository systems like Knowledge Commons might provide our students with a value-added experience to their education. At one point, Deric asked a question that captured my imagination: “Why stop…

  • Knowledge Commons: An Open Platform Supporting Scholarly Work and Practice

    Slides from a recent presentation at the MI OER Network Conference that @babaklar and I attended https://bit.ly/kcmioer24

  • ORCID Global Participation Fund Grant

    I’m thrilled to announce that the Knowledge Commons (formerly Humanities Commons) team has been awarded an ORCID Global Participation Fund grant to facilitate better two-way data transfer between the Knowledge Commons platform and researcher’s ORCID profiles. This project integrates ORCID with Knowledge Commons (KC, formerly Humanities Commons), a scholarly communications platform with a global audience…

  • Workshop Materials: Cultivating a Habit of Reflective Practice in Your Work

    This workshop is something I developed for use with the MSU COLA Fellows graduate summer program. I’ve converted it to an asynchronous version here for those who couldn’t attend the workshop or others who come across it. Workshop Outline This workshop consists of four main parts, with a reflection point separating each part. You may…

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  • Enhancing the Graduate Experience

    This post is part of an update I prepared for alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Letters to share some of our current projects and programming around enhancing the graduate student experience here at MSU. Comprehensive Teaching Excellence Program (CTEP) The Comprehensive Teaching Excellence Program provides graduate students with a menu of…

  • An Introduction to Visually Mapping Curriculum

    Visually mapping out curriculum is a way to better understand your course, program, or major and can help you make decisions on curriculum development or changes, assist students with navigating programs, and/or help you talk about your program. This post outlines a short workshop on visually mapping curriculum. You can use the post to guide…

  • Reflective Practice and the Formative Annual Review Framework

    These are the notes and links for a conversation about the Formative Annual Review (FAR) framework and Reflective Practice that I had with a group of MSU faculty. Brief overview of FAR Framework Formative Annual Review (FAR) is an active approach to annual review, allowing us to take control of our narratives, shape them, and…

  • Adding Google Drive and Chat to a Humanities Commons Group

    You can quickly and easily add additional links to any Humanities Commons Group by putting links into the Group Description section of your group. There’s currently no wysiwyg editor for that field so you have to type in good old HTML for it but it renders the HTML links clickable when saved and loaded. The…

  • Connecting Humanities Commons Deposits for Annual Review

    As I was preparing my annual review documentation this spring I wanted to see if I could more easily import my work published on Humanities Commons into Academic Profile, MSU’s annual reporting system that uses Watermark’s Faculty Success platform. Manual entry is always a possibility, but ideally, I want everything to be electronically connected to…

  • Developing a Reflective Practice Workshop 2023

    This workshop on Developing a Reflective Practice was offered in May 2023 for the MSU COLA Fellows. It was converted to this asynchronous format for those who weren’t able to attend. Workshop Outline This workshop consists of four main parts, with a reflection point separating each part. You may use the reflection prompt individually, or…

  • Pathways to Presencing Fellows Project – FAR Framework

    Today I spent a wonderful afternoon with colleagues engaged in the Pathways to Presencing Fellows program talking about our projects and sharing ideas. The fellowship program gives “space and time” for us to engage in ways we are enacting the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) framework. CPIL seeks to “empower staff and faculty to…

  • Crafting a Digital Presence With Visitor & Resident, and Constellation Mapping

    The two activities on this page will step you through an initial Visitor and Resident Map of your online presence, then using some of the places that you have identified in that work to create a constellation map of your activities. once you’ve done the activities on this page you can start to make a…