Dlinq Summer Intern

Summary

Join the Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry (DLINQ) as a summer intern and contribute to a dynamic team focused on enhancing digital learning at Middlebury. You will work remotely, supporting faculty and students, assisting with instructional design, and engaging in digital fluency projects. Interns collaborate with staff, peers, and community members, providing technical support and developing expertise in various digital tools and technologies. The internship offers opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement in a collaborative remote environment. Successful candidates will be self-motivated, creative problem-solvers with strong communication skills. The internship involves facilitating peer consultations, updating website content, and contributing to DLINQ projects.

Requirements

• Be self-motivated and creative problem solvers, curious about digital tools and practices while continuing on their own learning curve, and work well in a remote working supervisory setting
• Possess familiarity with multimedia production tools and processes including video and audio editing and digital storytelling
• Possess familiarity with website development
• Possess familiarity with Canvas, Panopto, Wordpress, MiddCreate tools, and Domain of One’s Own movement
• Possess familiarity with visual presentation practices and various graphic design tools, for example the Adobe creative suite
• Possess experience with digital collaboration tools like Google docs and communicating with tools like Zoom web conferencing and Slack
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills including writing for the web
• Possess excellent customer service and the ability to communicate clearly and patiently about complex technical issues
• Possess ability to effectively coordinate and collaborate in geographically-dispersed and team-based environments
• Possess ability to think creatively and critically about digital tools, practices, and environments taking initiative to investigate problems and work through viable solutions autonomously troubleshooting or researching solutions to technical issues
• Possess ability to adopt a partnering mindset with faculty, staff, and other students to move projects forward
• Possess ability to learn new technologies and develop new skills independently that benefit personal growth or the intern team

Responsibilities

• Facilitating peer-to-peer consultations with other students, and occasionally staff and faculty, on topics and tools on which they have received training or demonstrated interest and proficiency (e.g., multimedia production, web tools, emerging technologies, effective use of software)
• Responding to Middlebury community with thoughtful and responsive support by taking virtual appointments
• Writing and updating website posts, calendar events, as well as documentation for common digital tools, environments and practices
• Supporting or co-leading one and one or small group learning sessions (when requested by their supervisor) on topics relevant to DLINQ’s areas of focus
• Contributing to the development, progress, and success of DLINQ sponsored as well as community partner projects and initiatives. Projects are assigned by DLINQ supervisors based on interns’ experience, skills, interest, or professional/academic development goals

Preferred Qualifications

Regular attendance at mandatory meetings is expected as is contribution and follow-up to tasks and topics discussed at the meeting. Interns will often be called upon to complete professional presentations of services and tools