Author Archives: Gina Siesing

Tufts University Digital Collections & Archives and UIT Academic Technology present a one-day regional Fedora conference. July 20, 2010 9 AM-5 PM In a tough economy, it’s especially important to make sure we stay in touch with our local colleagues … Continue reading →

VUE, Tufts’ Visual Understanding Environment application developed through a grant from the Mellon Foundation, has been cited this week as a “Great Information Visualization Tool”: http://zenstorming.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/great-information-visualization-tool-vue/ The blog, “Zenstorming – Where Sciences Meets Muse… Innovation at its Most Authentic,” is … Continue reading →

“I don’t usually give A plus grades- this really was a great conference.” “I was impressed with the level of support that each UIT person offered. This was the most valuable teaching conference I have attended at Tufts thus far.” … Continue reading →

This new design of the Spark website is aimed toward improving usability, support, and discovery of Spark-enabled activities across the university. Explore the new interface and send us your feedback. Spark is a suite of communication and collaboration tools sponsored … Continue reading →

VUE, the Visual Understanding Environment, has been named among an interesting list of contemporary tools that help people analyze, organize, and share information and manage time. See the Online College Blog’s “100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Thoughts and … Continue reading →

UIT Academic Technology’s Senior Interactive Media Designer, Melanie St. James, is featured in this article by Annie Soisson of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at Tufts (CELT). Read all about Melanie’s focus on making educational tools … 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 →