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Spark WordPress upgraded to 3.3 “Sonny”

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

The ESTS Technical Service team just upgraded our Spark WordPress instance to WordPress 3.3.1. Here’s a little video intro to the major enhancements which are mainly focused on the user interface:

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Spark tools and their support for audio and video.

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

The new Digital Design Studio in Tisch Library is allowing Tufts community members to produce all kinds of exciting, original media. Many people wonder what comes next after they have produced their files. Where can I publish them within the … Continue reading →

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Announcing ESTS Drop-in Consulting Hours in the Tisch Digital Design Studio

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

UIT’s directorate of Educational and Scholarly Technology Services (ESTS) is now providing faculty, staff, and students with the ability for drop-in consultations in order to assist them with their questions and ideas around the integration of technology into their teaching, … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Research at Tufts Awards 2011

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

It was a pleasure working with my colleagues on the internal and external versions of the Visualizing Research @ Tufts Awards sites. Together we produced a WordPress site (http://sites.tufts.edu/vrta) to publicly announce the start of the competition and then announce … Continue reading →

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HandBrake: nice open source video conversion tool.

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

I’m often asked to get video off of a DVD recording of a lecture or presentation so that it can be used with the Spark MediaMarkup tool or embedded into a web site (e.g. blog, wiki, course system etc.) HandBrake … Continue reading →

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RodRego finds a new home.

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

Prof. Daniel Dennett was looking for a new home for his RodRego software application that would provide him with an easy to remember URL and a site that he could easily update should the need arise. RodRego is a “register … Continue reading →

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Downloading videos from YouTube

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

Recently I got an email from a student who was having difficulties uploading a video she had made to VoiceThread. Her hypothesis was that the video was “too large”. For free accounts the upload limit is 25MB (it’s 100MB if … Continue reading →

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HTML 5 and Javascript Adventures – Part 1

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

After my last post where I was whining about getting traction for an idea for an alternative visualization of oral history data I decided I’d just stop whining and use it as an opportunity to look into HTML5 multimedia capabilities. … Continue reading →

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Oral History Data Mining and Remixing

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

Version 1 of our Visualizing Oral Histories project found us with a really nice interface for scholars with an interest in the oral history of decolonization of West Bengal and Bangladesh. The interface and the back-end provide a platform that … Continue reading →

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