By John LeMasney · May 5, 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.
Posted in Blackboard, New Media, Princeton Specific, Tools for Teaching, Training
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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."
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Grants and Funding, Library, New Media, Princeton Specific, Tech News
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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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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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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.
Posted in New Media, News from OIT, Princeton Specific, Tools for Teaching, Training
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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.
Posted in New Media
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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...
Posted in Grants and Funding, New Media, Princeton Specific, Training
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By Janet Temos · November 16, 2010
Doug Dixon, an independent technology consultant, author, and speaker specializing in digital media, presented an overview of the burgeoning market for consumer 3D devices-- as well as explaining the technology behind those devices-- this...
Posted in New Media, Tech News
By Jon Edwards · October 29, 2010
In its youth, which seems only now to be ending, film-making and film-editing required an immense amount of expensive and specialized hardware and a hefty range of fine technical skills. Today, suggested Dave Hopkins...
Posted in New Media
By Jon Edwards · October 14, 2009
Why has the use of Facebook and other social networking sites exploded? Perhaps, suggest John Jameson and Shani Hilton of Princeton’s Office of Communications, because it is now possible to interact socially with very large...
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By Jon Edwards · February 26, 2009
Modern copyright law guarantees authors full rights over their work even without the inclusion of the © copyright notice. “All rights reserved” gives authors (for the length of their lives plus 70 years) the...
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By Jon Edwards · December 3, 2008
When e-books began to appear in the early 2000’s, there was speculation about the demise of the printed book. While that clearly did not come to pass, e-books have now become a staple of...
Posted in Library, New Media, Tech News
By Jon Edwards · November 5, 2008
In addition to the Science Library, the new Peter B Lewis Library will contain a new OIT-operated Broadcast Center. The center’s HD video studio will assist University professors to be interviewed live on major...
Posted in New Media, News from OIT
By outside author · September 27, 2007
By Jack Ackerman Princetonian Contributor Clifford Ross wanted to capture details on film, but no camera could do quite what he had in mind. So, he made his own. Ross, a painter and photographer, has...
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By Jon Edwards · October 27, 2006
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn on October 25, Kevin Guthrie ‘84 discussed the new forces and organizations emerging from today’s rapidly evolving networked economy that pose new challenges for the academic enterprise and for...
Posted in Library, New Media, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
By outside author · September 26, 2006
Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations BERKELEY - In another innovative move to share its intellectual treasures with the public, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Tuesday, Sept. 26) that it is delivering educational content, including...
Posted in New Media, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
By outside author · April 26, 2006
College students who miss a class can go online to keep up with work or other offerings By JAY REY News Staff Reporter 4/25/2006 It used to be college students actually had to go to...
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By Donna Liu · April 21, 2006
Donna Liu, University Channel Director What if the public could listen to the best minds and newest ideas at colleges and universities around the world? What if the academic research and analysis that aims to...
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By Jon Edwards · March 23, 2006
At the Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on March 15, Douglas Dixon demonstrated dozens of small portable storage devices, media players, and multi-function devices. Mr. Dixon is a technology consultant with Manifest Technology, the Editor-in-Chief...
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By outside author · March 19, 2006
By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare - spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the...
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By Lorene Lavora · May 15, 2005
Video course introductions increase interest and help students in the course selection process. How many times have you wondered what film to see when embarking on a night out? That choice has become a lot...
Posted in New Media, News from OIT, Princeton Specific
