The Orwell Diaries
The Orwell Prize, which sponsors a British prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog, with each entry appearing on the site exactly seventy years after …
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Video journal gets respect
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is now indexed in PubMed, the first video-journal to have that acceptance. “This is a major milestone for JoVE and also for new methods …
Humanities, Arts & Technology festival seeks planners, projects
This invitation came to Duke CIT, so I’d like share it with the rest of campus. Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology a state-wide digital arts and humanities festival in February …
Strategic Initative Grants from CIT
CIT is offering grants to faculty to support instructional innovations with technology, tied to Duke’s strategic plan “Making a Difference.” In particular, Chapter 4 of the plan “Academic Goals and …
Camtasia and Blackboard: Distributing library instruction to multiple general chemistry lab sections
Melinda Box, Instructor, Chemistry Project Description: Melinda Box and Anne Langley (Chemistry Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry) are working together to instruct chemistry students how to effectively find chemistry …
Mapping Literature
The Chronicle of Higher Education features an article this week on literary scholarship that is using technology to investigate new questions with texts that are available online. New tools, such …
Now everyone has access to 'Knol'edge
We’ve posted in the past about Google’s Wikipedia-like tool ‘Knol’ (https://knol.google.com), but until this week, its been in closed beta. Now open for everyone, Knol is both interesting and frustrating …
Bb Tip: Easy Way to Access Library Resources Off-campus
EZProxy allows you to use your Duke NetID to access library resources, especially online articles and databases, from off-campus without having to download any software. Check out the link below …
Conference on Literature in Virtual Worlds
On August 4th, 2008, and again on August 6th, Alliance Library System, in cooperation with LearningTimes, will offer a one-day conference exploring the possibilities of using virtual worlds to teach …
Data Visualization and Remixing – Radiohead and Google
Rock group Radiohead recently teamed with Google to create a music video using a new technique. The video was created without using cameras; instead, 3d laser scanners, similar to those …