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By John LeMasney · October 3, 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 there and let us know what you think!...
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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 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.
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Library, New Media, Tools for Teaching, Training
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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
By Janet Temos · December 2, 2010
In this week's Lunch 'n Learn, Matthew Salganik, an Assistant Professor in Princeton's Department of Sociology, presented some recent research that has resulted in the creation of an open-source polling site called AllOurIdeas.org
Posted in Faculty Spotlights, Research Computing, Tools for Teaching
By Jon Edwards · October 20, 2010
Wikipedia, said David Goodman at the October 13 Lunch 'n Learn seminar, is by far the most used online encyclopedia, and the most referenced source in the world, with more than 338 million unique visitors...
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By Jon Edwards · April 14, 2010
In the Fall term of 2009, Princeton conducted a pilot sponsored by the High Meadows Foundation, the University Library, and the Office of Information Technology, to assess the use of e-readers in the classroom. The...
Posted in Faculty Spotlights, Grants and Funding, Library, News from OIT, Princeton Specific, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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By Jon Edwards · April 1, 2009
Imagine being paid, or getting Princeton credit, for playing with trains and Legos™. For more than 25 years, Professor Michael G. Littman, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, has taught MAE 412 Microprocessors for...
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By Jon Edwards · November 24, 2008
Two technology-driven projects at Princeton are improving teaching and learning in beginning German. Jamie Rankin, coordinator of language teaching and pedagogy and a senior lecturer in the department since 1991, introduced both approaches at...
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By Jon Edwards · April 16, 2008
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is interested in promoting the application of digital technologies to academic research as well as learning and teaching. The Foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving...
Posted in Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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By Jon Edwards · March 25, 2008
Although the computer age promised a paperless revolution, we are, in many ways, more dependent on paper than ever before. This year alone at Princeton University, students will print more than 8,000,000 pages in the...
Posted in News from OIT, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
By Jon Edwards · January 11, 2008
You may be a typical Google searcher who simply pops in a word or two in the Google search box and hopes for the best? As it turns out, Google has placed impressive functionality...
Posted in Library, Princeton Specific, Tools for Teaching
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By Jon Edwards · October 9, 2007
On Tuesday, October 9, 2007, the Council on Science and Technology at Princeton University sponsored a talk by Professor Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University. With a team...
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By Jon Edwards · April 16, 2007
Second Life is a virtual world, a vast 3-D digital continent teeming with people, entertainment, experiences, and interesting, often unique opportunities. Established in 2001 by Philip Rosedale, now CEO of Linden Labs, Second Life is...
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By Jon Edwards · March 1, 2007
At the February 28 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, Bill Guthe, David Potere, Bethany Bradley, Wangyal Shawa presented GIS at Princeton: Gathering Knowledge from Satellite Images. Bill Guthe began the session by describing GIS and Remote...
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By Jon Edwards · February 7, 2007
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on February 7, Janet Temos, the Director of OIT’s Educational Technologies Center and Joshua Rabinowitz, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, demonstrated the use...
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By Jon Edwards · December 6, 2006
At the December 6 Lunch ‘n Learn, Serge Goldstein, the Director of OIT’s Academic Services, presented “Teaching with a Tablet PC.” Tablets, explained Goldstein, are simply Windows laptops (there are no Mac versions currently)...
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By outside author · November 1, 2006
A group of scholars at George Mason University released a free Web-browser enhancement this month designed especially for other scholars. The project, which was originally called Firefox Scholar, is now called Zotero. The goal...
Posted in Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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 · September 19, 2006
While new technologies have made information more accessible, they have yet to live up to their full potential when it comes to knowledge sharing. Two European projects in the field of collaborative learning are looking...
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By outside author · September 8, 2006
By ANDREA L. FOSTER Harvard University plans to hold its first class in a “virtual world” this fall, using a video-gamelike environment called Second Life. Charles Nesson, a renowned professor at Harvard Law School, is...
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By Jon Edwards · May 18, 2006
At the May 17 Lunch ‘n Learn, four speakers from the University Library provided their perspectives on Google, the popular internet search engine that has become an integral part of everyday vocabulary and life....
Posted in Library, Princeton Specific, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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By Jon Edwards · May 4, 2006
When it comes to making your academic life easier, trust a librarian. That was the theme of the May 3 Lunch ‘n Learn where Nancy Pressman Levy, Audrey Betsy Wright and Phil Menos shared tips...
Posted in Library, Princeton Specific, 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...
Posted in New Media, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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 Eric Quiñones · March 6, 2006
Each time the door to room 309 opened, the late-afternoon quiet of the Frist Campus Center was shattered by the din of 30 Princeton students engulfed by crises in the Middle East. The Princeton Interactive...
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