Category Archives: Consultations

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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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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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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