Tag Archives: Social Sciences

Lunch & Learn: Mapping and Emergency Response: Managing a Flood of Data presented by Bill Guthe, Wangyal Shawa

Posted on October 7, 2011 by John LeMasney

Wednes­day, Octo­ber 5, 12:00 noon ***Oakes Lounge, Whig Hall*** Map­ping and Emer­gency Response: Man­ag­ing a Flood of Data Bill Guthe, Wangyal Shawa Fol­low­ing any sig­nif­i­cant event, peo­ple expect to find infor­ma­tion on-line regard­ing the event’s loca­tion and poten­tial impacts.  Such infor­ma­tion … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Free Daily Spanish Videos and Mp3s (with Vocab Lists)

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Angel Brady

If you are look­ing for a free site that has Span­ish videos, mp3s, and vocab lists for free, then The Span­ish Blog is a great resource. The owner of the blog, Laura Gar­rido Eslava is a Span­ish Lan­guage teacher from … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Mapping Novels with Google Earth

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Ben Johnston

Via ProfHacker in the Chron­i­cle is an inter­est­ing write-up of an Eng­lish professor’s expe­ri­ences with giv­ing stu­dents the task of map­ping loca­tions from a novel. The novel in this case was Vir­ginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dal­loway. http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/mapping-novels/32528 Other lit­er­ary maps can … Con­tinue read­ing →

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List of Free Language Phrasebooks by Wikitravel

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Angel Brady

Wik­i­travel has com­piled free lan­guage phrase­books put together by its users. Some of the phrase­books are not com­plete, but if you are famil­iar with the lan­guage, you have the abil­ity to add to the phrase­book (just like you would in … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Multilingual Zotero (In Test Phase)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Angel Brady

Zotero announced today that they will be releas­ing Mul­ti­lin­gual Zotero. This soft­ware will allow schol­ars that work­ing in mul­ti­ple lan­guages to cor­rectly for­mat mul­ti­lin­gual data. It also deletes dupli­cates. To learn more or to down­load the Mul­ti­lin­gual Zotero, click on … Con­tinue read­ing →

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