I am equal parts excited and sad to announce that ITG’s Robin Ladouceur will be moving to a new position in the Yale Graduate School as Assistant Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. Robin has worked in ITG for four years supporting courses, primarily in the English Department and managing…
Beginning in 2009 as an effort to capture the historic moment of President Obama’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, Professor Matt Jacobson’s Historian’s Eye project has evolved into a website presenting a collection of 1000+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the 2008 economic collapse,…
The Yale Academic Commons is an online academic community where the Yale faculty, students and staff can publish websites and blogs for courses, student groups, labs, and more.
Barnet Schecter will kick off the George Washington map exhibit in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall on Wednesday with a talk titled “America Transformed: From George Washington’s American Atlas to the 21st Century”. The title refers to Schecter’s research, but is appropriate considering what you’ll find when you walk…
We recently heard from a faculty member who needed to trim an existing mp3 file. The faculty member is using a Mac so our initial reaction was to suggest GarageBand. A little testing revealed that it’s a less than intuitive process to use GarageBand for this purpose. Instead, Yianni and…
Libraries as Web 2.0 Portals to Learning by folks from College of New Jersey and the State University of New Jersey. Creating library subject guides incorporating Web 2.0 resources. They showed an example of Florida St. Early Childhood Ed creating their subject guide as a wiki. Using RSS feeds for…
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes with Tablet PCs by folks from Vassar. Used HP field-ready tablets with USB GPS devices as a mobile mapping lab. I was glad to hear that they were fairly low specced at 512mb of RAM, but were still ArchGIS just fine. For one example they had…
Emily Horning gave an introduction to social bookmarking. Demonstrating del.icio.us, she pointed out misspellings and tag inconsistency. She showed citeulike.org and demonstrated PennTags, but didn’t explain what distinguishes it from other social bookmarking sites. Jen Pollock from the Yale Center for British Art then showed a del.icio.us project she’s working…
Stand-alone application for PC, Mac and Linux http://earth.google.com/ 1m at highest resolution (some special areas goes to 1ft)
I’m playing around with it and my first impression is that it feels clinical. That’s more of a feeling about Sakai in general, though. In terms of functionality it has some interesting features. It has a keywords field where you can add multiple tags by separating them with commas. Unfortunately,…
