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Come and learn how Fordham University faculty are using social annotation (Lacuna Stories) to enhance student comprehension and engagement with course texts. Explore a reading using Lacuna Stories in this workshop, and see how this tool from Stanford University can help faculty better prepare for class discussions, and assess student engagement with course texts. LEVEL: [...]
Humanities Commons combines a scholarly network and open access repository—allowing you to share your work with groups and on your profile, while also ensuring long-term preservation in a Fedora repository built in partnership with Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. The CORE repository accepts a wide range of item types and file types, [...]
Action Learning enforces the power of questions through a very simple, yet highly effective and challenging method. In Action Learning, a group of 6-8 participants develops leadership skills, by working together on solving a complex problem. Questions are the driving force of Action Learning, and empower participants to discover the root of problems and to [...]
The New York Public Library is home to one of the world’s premier map collections, including 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries. Its Map Warper (available at maps.nypl.org) is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables both librarians and the general public to align digital images [...]
Learn how to create a basic Scalar book in this hands-on workshop. We will create and integrate multiple pages, tags, paths, multimedia, and (of course) annotations. See why this open source tool from the University of Southern California is so well adapted to contemporary student and scholarly multimedia projects. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: You must create [...]
ARIS is an open source platform developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison that allows you to create mobile games, interactive stories, scavenger hunts, tours and data collection activities. Come learn the basics of the program, get some ideas to start you off, and learn more about integrating place-based, active learning experiences in your [...]
This workshop will show participants how to use the Python and the Natural Language Toolkit to load a plaintext document, split it into paragraphs/sentences/words, and retrieve dictionary headwords and part-of-speech information for the words in the document. We will then create charts and visualizations for the feature counts. LEVEL: Beginner/Intermediate NOTES: Bring personal laptop; required [...]
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of computer-based mapping using QGIS, an open-source mapping platform popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic mapping skills such as uploading existing spatial datasets (shape files) to a project, editing shapefiles, adding a vector layer, and joining layers to discover new spatial information. By participating [...]
Almost everyone is going to have to load data and make graphs. You want to do this in a stat system that is free and open source. Also, it is a waste of time to reinvent the wheel every time you change languages. We will use simple crime and poverty data but generate a wide [...]
There is so much data out on the web, but who wants to copy-and-paste or scrape web pages? Knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way. LEVEL: Intermediate NOTES: Laptop, Python 3, Jupyter. Workshop Organizer can provide a Jupyter notebook before the workshop for the participants to follow [...]
Join staff from the Teaching and Learning Center for a workshop on how to teach with WordPress. WordPress is a web-based publishing platform that, when used in college courses, can facilitate a variety of writing and multi-modal assignments and can help faculty harness the power of networks in and across their teaching. WordPress seamlessly integrates a [...]
