The Scholars’ Collaborative at the University of Connecticut Libraries is hosting a series of talks: Conversations in Digital Scholarship series during the 2014-15 year. The next event will be “Teaching Collaborations: Public History with WordPress” – Dr. Clarissa Ceglio on October 10, 2014 at 12:30 …
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Thursday, April 10, 7 – 9 pm. CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 5th Ave New York, NY 10016 This talk will explore the origins and applications (both historical and contemporary) of data visualization techniques, locating the emergence of the …
Wednesday, April 23, 6 – 8:30 pm. Arts @ 29 Garden Street (located at the corner of Garden and Chauncy Streets, approximately 15-minutes by foot from Harvard Square) The openLAB event is a project fair with demos, presentations, student projects, …
Tuesday, April 15, 12 – 1:30 pm. Northeastern University Center for Complex Network Research Dana Building, Fifth Floor 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Join Navid Dianati to review the basics of the popular and open source revision control software Git, …
Saturday, April 5, 9 am – 5 pm. Northeastern University 90 Snell Library 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Led by Core Faculty Member Ryan Cordell, this workshop will introduce participants to the Omeka digital archive software (omeka.org) and the …
Tuesday, March 25, 12 – 1:30 pm. Northeastern University Center for Complex Network Research Dana Building, Fifth Floor 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 This workshop provides an introduction to the free software tool Gephi (www.gephi.org). It will cover data structure and …
Wednesday, April 16, 2 – 3 pm. Held online via desktop videoconferencing. How might colleges and universities use the themes of distinction, analytics, value, innovation, and digital opportunities (thus, DAVID) as a means to consider how they might reinvent themselves? …
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Tuesday, March 18, 2-3 pm. Held online via desktop videoconferencing. As they plan for the future, increasing numbers of colleges and universities are examining and re-envisioning the relationships between work functions. One of the closest ties often found is between …
Wednesday, April 9, 2-3 pm. Held online via video conferencing. As zoologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and many educators know, playing games is at the heart of learning. Teachers have long used rhetorical games like debates or mind games such as Socratic …
Gamification: Theory and Applications in the Liberal Arts Read more »
Friday, May 30 – Saturday, May 31. Boston University’s College of General Studies THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build …