The Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The WEF’s principal initiative is the U.S. and Canada Wikipedia Education Program (“the program”), which connects […]
We put on two week-long programs, where girls 12 to 14 learned how to brainstorm, design, build, and pitch iPhone apps. We also raised $106K via our Indiegogo campaign, thanks to the incredible support from our community of app developers, designers and geeks of all stripes. We are working on plans for Summer 2014, including expanding camp […]
Reporting to the Digital Publications Manager, the Digital Publications Developer will be a key position in building a multi-faceted digital publications program for the Getty. The Digital Publications Developer supports Getty Publications in the creation of digital books across a variety of formats and platforms; in the management of digital assets and workflows for creating […]
On Friday, December 6 from 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern (9:00 – 10:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to discuss the process, practice, and theories of grading. Read full post here.
Crowdsourcing is often approached as a full-attention activity, but it can also be used for applications so small that people perform them almost effortlessly. What possibilities are afforded by pursuing low-effort crowdsourcing? Low-effort crowdsourcing is possible through a mix of low-granularity tasks, unobtrusive input methods, and an appropriate setting. Exploring the possibilities of low-effort crowdsourcing, we […]
We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently […]
Radical changes in the information landscape are transforming traditional academic roles and the roles of libraries within the academy. This program prepares a new generation of librarians, scientists, and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows in Academic Libraries work on projects that […]
The Internet Archive has started a Historical Software Collection. This is part of a larger Internet Archive Software Collection that has a number of collections. What is cool is that they have an in-browser emulator that allows you to play with historical software like Visicalc or Atari’s E.T. in the browser. This is a Javascript […]
In previous posts we started with the URLs for particular online resources (books, collections, etc.) without worrying about where those URLs came from. Here we will use a variety of tools for locating primary and secondary sources of interest and keeping track of what we find. We will be focusing on the use of web […]
The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks two Technology Specialists to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both within and beyond […]
