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- No events scheduled for February 3, 2020.
A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B 726 Broadway, New YorkDevotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York- No events scheduled for February 6, 2020.
Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York- No events scheduled for February 8, 2020.
- No events scheduled for February 9, 2020.
Week of Events
The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) staff, and members of the project team will demonstrate the features of AFB’s fully accessible digital Helen Keller Archive. This digital collection is pioneering in that it is accessible to visitors who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind, as well as sighted and hearing audiences. Helen Keller […]
A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
In this demonstration, attendees will learn about building a flexible, platform neutral textbook replacement using low tech collaborative tools. The resulting data set can be published to a variety of display platforms (such as WordPress or Omeka) in addition to being available for faculty and student projects such as maps, timelines, and exhibits. Participants will […]
Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
The madonnelle (street shrines) of Rome are vernacular expressions of religious devotion traced to the thirteenth century. Recent interventions, intended to restore the shrines as important cultural artifacts, inadvertently risk displacing their devotional communities. This demonstration presents an ongoing research project on the perception of a virtual replica of the Grottapinta, in the increasingly touristic [...]
Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
This workshop introduces Commons In A Box OpenLab: free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world. Funded by a generous grant from the NEH’s Office […]