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Resource: Coding for Teachers ― A DPL Workshop

From the post: Following is the outline and resources for my workshop “Coding for Teachers” at Digital Pedagogy Lab’s 2016 Institute. If you’ve been thinking about possibly learning to code, but don’t know if it’s worth it, or don’t know where to start, take a stab at these activities. While they’re designed with an in-person […]

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Resource: Hypothes.is Aggregator ― A WordPress Plugin

From the post: I’ve been working and writing a lot lately about using the web annotation tool hypothes.is for public scholarship. It has a lot of cool uses ― not only the collaborative annotation of individual web pages, but also the creation of a public research notebook, and the possibility of linking hypothes.is with other apps through […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Wikipedian in Residence at the Open Science Lab

From the posting: The Open Science Lab explores the evolution towards digital, open and collaborative science. It also supports scientific communities by jointly developing and testing methods and software tools that are conducive to research activities. The Job is part of a new project “NOA – The replication of open access images: development of a […]

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Job: Associate Director of Online Instructional Design, UPenn

From the posting: The Associate Director of Online Instructional Design will be a key member of the Online Learning Initiative (OLI) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help both organizations support faculty across Penn’s twelve schools in the development of online courses and best practices. Find out more: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ONLINE […]

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Resource: Supporting Client-side API and Linked Data Consumption

From the post: In my post on consuming of linked data using Javascript, I talked about a couple technologies that are critical to being able to use linked data in client-side applications. Making an API or linked data friendly for client-side consumers requires support for a variety of technologies. In this post, I’m going to […]

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Resource: Are You For Real? Exploring Virtual Reality Within The Academic Setting

From the article: Virtual reality is all the rage these days, with options ranging from complete virtual worlds real or imagined, to new programs that allow users to conduct surgery on digital patients. According to Educause, VR “uses visual, auditory, and sometimes other sensory inputs to create an immersive, computer-generated environment. VR headsets fully cover […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Ada Issue 11, Open Issue

From the CFP: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology: We invite contributions featuring research on gender, new media and technology. We are particularly interested in contributions that exemplify Ada’s commitments to politically engaged, intersectional approaches to scholarship on gender, new media and technology. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: UTA Team Develops Digital Archive to Preserve Music by Alumni, Students, Local artists

A new website developed at The University of Texas at Arlington plans to make music produced by UTA music students, alumni, professors and independent artists in the North Texas region available for free to the world. Read More: UTA team develops digital archive to preserve music by alumni, students, local artists – UTA News Center

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor – Critical Computation and New Media

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Critical Computation and New Media. This appointment will begin July 1, 2017. Find out more: Job Description – Assistant Professor – Critical Computation and […]