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Mapping the News

Posted on March 11, 2011 by

Client: Biology Tools used: OpenCalais, Javascript, ColdFusion, Google Maps, Yahoo Pipes Project Description: A faculty member in the Biology department teaches a course on the conservation of endangered species. He was looking for a way to engage his students by … Continue reading →

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Portfolio Categorization

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Client: Child Development Tools used: WordPress Project Description: Would-be teachers in the Massachusetts public education system need to demonstrate an understanding of the state’s professional standards for teachers. That’s why one of the Child Development instructors came to us to … Continue reading →

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Random Assignment

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

Client: Italian Tools used: ColdFusion Project Description: A couple of weeks ago I was talking to one of the Italian instructors about her clever use of Voicethread (more on that in a future post). As a performance of understanding she … Continue reading →

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Embedding music into your blog/wiki/course site.

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

A few months ago the site Grooveshark was brought to my attention (via one of my favorite music discovery sites. According to Wikipedia, “Grooveshark is an internationally available online music search engine, music streaming service and music recommendation web software … Continue reading →

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Speech to Text Transcripts

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

Client: Fletcher Tools used: SpokenMedia Project Description: From time to time I’m asked by Tufts clients if there is any way to automate the creation of a text transcript from an audio file. Recently the media in question was in … Continue reading →

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Vet School Mini-Symposium

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

MediaMarkup Examples Medical – Compassionate Care Patient Exams Peer Review of Teaching The Gordon Institute – Conflict Resolution Role Playing Pediatrics – Case Presentation Engineering – Presentation skills WordPress WordPress Examples Support Site Spark

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Spark presentation at Vet School

Posted on April 22, 2010 by

Today I gave a presentation to folks at the Vet School. The gist of it was an overview of the Spark website and tools. There were only a few faculty members in attendance but those that were there were very … Continue reading →

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Rapid development of database driven web site using WordPress

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

One of our latest consultations was with the Office of the Vice Provost. They publish the Research @ Tufts online newsletter, a component of which is a list of Tufts’ funded research projects. Presented in this fashion the list is … Continue reading →

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Simple web-based data collection using Google Docs

Posted on April 9, 2010 by

UIT-AT is often asked to provide support for web-connected database solutions. Unfortunately, more often than not, we can’t take these problems on because they don’t fall within our scope (e.g. technology to support teaching, learning, and research). Usually its more … Continue reading →

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At NERCOMP WordPress Univeristy SIG

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

Today I’m at the NERCOMP WordPress U SIG. I’m impressed by how many of our peers are using WP for a whole variety of use cases and its generating a lot of ideas for how to enhance the UIT-AT service. … Continue reading →

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