We are moving!

By John LeMasney · October 03, 2011

 IT’s Aca­d­e­mic will remain here for pos­ter­ity, but we are mov­ing new updates and other inter­ac­tive con­tent to our new Edu­ca­tional Tech­nolo­gies Cen­ter site at http://etc.princeton.edu/blogPlease visit us...

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Lunch and Learn: Dennis Hood on Blackboard 2011

By John LeMasney · May 05, 2011

At the Lunch and Learn on April 27th, 2011, Dennis Hood spoke about what Blackboard users should expect from the latest version of Blackboard at Princeton. He demonstrated the cosmetic and functional changes that will come after the upgrade in June. Blackboard 2011 offers more straightforward navigation, tools for increased productivity with less clicks, and a cleaner look and feel.

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John Wilkin, Jon Stroop, and Marvin Bielawski on Hathi Trust

By John LeMasney · April 28, 2011

John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at Princeton University are helping HathiTrust to digitize and share the world's recorded knowledge using the combined effort of fifty institutions. HathiTrust is described on their web site at http://hathitrust.org as "a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future" and their mission is "to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge."

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Ben Johnston on New Scholarly Annotation Tools

By John LeMasney · April 15, 2011

This session looked at current and future methods of annotating and analyzing text and multimedia materials for scholarly work. From the bookmarking and annotation of webpages, to commenting Word documents for review, and the marking up of XML versions of manuscripts, annotation can take many different forms and be used in many different ways.

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Lunch and Learn: John LeMasney on 365 Sketches

By John LeMasney · April 12, 2011

365 Sketches is a project in which I use free and open source software to do a single visual design every day. The project is currently in its second year of production, and was started as a way to force myself to do at least one thing every day to build upon my design skills. You can visit the project and follow my progress at http://365sketches.org. As time went on, it became a public visual diary, a way for people to come together online and converse about, suggest ideas for, and critique my work. The work is occasionally practical, sometimes clever, often funny, and increasingly personal. I continue to achieve the goals that I had planned for in the beginning of the project. I have seen a gradual improvement and evolution of my design, typography and photomanipulation skills, but I also received many other unforeseen benefits, such as gaining an audience, being contracted for new consulting work, taking part in shows and presentations on the project, and feeling a genuine desire to keep making more pieces.

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PULSe and Lynda.com - On Demand Training at Princeton University

By John LeMasney · April 6, 2011

PULSe - the Princeton University Learning Series is a new IT learning opportunity that supports many of the technologies OIT makes available. Faculty, staff, and students - anyone with a Princeton netID - can participate in the live Friday afternoon webinars or access recorded tutorials on available services such as SharePoint, Roxen, and WebSpace. PULSe maintains a presence on Twitter and Facebook where additional resources are shared. In this Productive Scholar session, you will be introduced to the site, its features, and the iLinc web conferencing system that is used to present the weekly webinars. Lynda.com is a California-based company that offers online training materials on popular software platforms, web applications, and consumer technology. Some are short introductions to a new technology or software package. Others are in-depth instructions on software applications or suites.

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Sorat Tungkasiri: Internet Child Safety at Home

By John LeMasney · March 25, 2011

The increasingly "online" lifestyle of children today can cause new and sometimes unforeseen issues for parents. Kids today are in chat rooms, on social networks, writing and sharing information on microblogging sites like Tumblr, doing online gaming, texting friends, and even sometimes doing their homework online. This presentation is designed for parents with children who have access to the Internet to better understand the current dangers that exist in the world today.

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AllPrinceton: The Hyperlocal Media Experiment

By John LeMasney · March 10, 2011

Introduction At the Lunch ‘n Learn session on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011, Donna Liu explained and demonstrated AllPrinceton.com, a "hyperlocal multimedia experiment" of which she is the founder and Executive Director. AllPrinceton is not...

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