Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Fletcher Women’s Network and the Global Women student group announce the launch of their new website and on-line community. The website is public: http://fwn.uit.tufts.edu, but access to the community network is limited to to Fletcher Alumnae and members of … Continue reading →

Each year the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) conducts a national survey on undergraduate students’ use of information technology. UIT Academic Technology was very pleased to coordinate with the Undergraduate Deans’ Offices and the Office for Institutional Research in … Continue reading →

The VUE team is pleased to announce the release of VUE 2.1 (the Visual Understanding Environment) VUE 2.1 represents a significant evolution of VUE’s pathways metaphor resulting in new set of tools for visualizing maps and creating nonlinear presentations. The … Continue reading →

Jointly sponsored by University Information Technology (UIT) and the Information Technology Committee in Arts & Sciences and Engineering, the Faculty Information Technology Liaison Program has been designed to provide robust conduits of communication among IT representatives from UIT, faculty liaisons … Continue reading →

UIT Academic Technology has participated in two successful “Innovations in Education” grant proposals and in the implementation of the two projects, which are supported by the Office of Educational Affairs at the Medical School. The first project, proposed initially by … Continue reading →

UIT Academic Technology partnered with David Locke, ethnomusicology professor in the Department of Music, to design the Dagomba Dance Drumming site to present Professor Locke’s research materials as an interactive learning resource for students in spring 2008 and beyond. The … Continue reading →

UIT provided technology consultation and support for the Harmony in the Age of Noise project led by Professor David Guss, poet and chair of the Department of Anthropology. Guss worked with sculptor Mark McNamara and media artist Michael Luck Schneider … Continue reading →

UIT Academic Technology partnered with Justin Hollander, faculty member in UEPP, on a Second Life-based course project. In their Second Life Island, students modeled new designs for the Forest Hills neighborhood, which was up for redevelopment. Neal Hirsig from Information … Continue reading →