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Teaching with WordPress Teaching with WordPress (TWP15) is an open, collaborative online course on using WordPress for teaching and learning in higher education. But choosing WordPress as a platform for teaching is only one part of the process in developing an rich, thoughtful, open learning environment. http://blogs.ubc.ca/teachwordpress/syllabus/
In a recent blog post , Doug Mckee addresses three issues in how he should teach this fall. 1. Should I ban laptops in lecture? 2. Should I make discussion sections mandatory? 3. Should I cold-call students during lecture? Basically: no, no and no—all for the same reasons. 1. Should…
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…
Cross-posted from my project journal site
Since the close of classes in May, I’ve found more time to work on getting into the weeds with my 絵巻物 project and have made some forward motion.
One of my best discoveries has been that Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1 will execute the image tiling needed to allow zooming as happens in most of the typical large image presentations that I’ve found online. (For some scroll examples, see my post at Digital Humanities Questions and Answers.) Though I’ve only done it with my proof of concept section of the scroll, it was not a horribly intensive or time-consuming procedure. Strictly speaking, what Adobe has done is to bundle Zoomify capabilities into Photoshop. Using the steps described by Adobe’s help documentation, the output is not only the image tiles for my TIFF,
Celebrating Matt Regan’s birthday with some of Gloria’s famous brownies and some milkshake that should have been ice cream.
The New York Times has just issued the first in a series of articles about “Humanities 2.0: Liberal Arts Meet the Data Revolution.” The article quotes Tom Scheinfeldt, managing director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Tom will be speaking to Yale’s Digital Humanities…
I know, another post on WebM – it is just that significant. As more rumblings are heard of, and more beta versions of Firefox 4 are released – the WebM question continues to resurface. Mozilla seems fully intent on including full WebM support in this release, and Opera 10.60+ /…
As an addendum to my previous post, there are now two free options for getting your files compressed into the aforementioned WebM container (and both work on Mac and PC). In terms of viewing the final product on a website, someone with a greater degree of webpage/server knowledge will have…
The picture will become clear shortly – Pam recently clued me in to an interesting development in the area of ‘open video formats’, known as WebM format. The format is actually composed of (1) A video stream compressed with the On2 VP8 video codec (2) An audio stream compressed with…