The Digital Scholarship Center is bringing back its popular Arduino workshop later this month! Join Scott Austed and the DSC staff for an afternoon of hardware prototyping. Wondering how to get started with physical computing, and what kind of stuff you can do with it? Sign up for this workshop! July 17, 2015. 1-4 PM.… Continue reading →
This post was originally created for the new UO Ed Tech Community of Practice. I’m cross-posting it here for informational and archival purposes. –Lindsey Introduction For the first meeting of our new Ed Tech Community of Practice, we developed a structured activity. We asked everyone in attendance to answer four questions on a notecard: Who are… Continue reading →
UO faculty, instructors, and GTFs can join training sessions to gain an understanding of creating, developing, and implementing course sites in Canvas, the new Learning Management System going live in Spring 2015. There are multiple workshops for creating a course from scratch and for migrating a course from Blackboard to Canvas. Register today for this… Continue reading →
Join the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for a discussion on “Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and Challenges.” Speakers will include representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, WITNESS, and a co-founder of the Zone9 blogging collective. Details: Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and… Continue reading →
On Friday, February 20, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will be hosting a symposium on “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media,” addressing the timely topics of new media theory, data histories, network culture, and information ecologies in an interdisciplinary format. The symposium will be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and features keynote speaker Wendy… Continue reading →
An initial timeline for the UO Canvas migration has been made available. While the schedule remains subject to change, the timeline is quite helpful for planning purposes. Faculty and staff interested in becoming an Early Adopter can signup with Academic Technology to get a jump on the use of this new system during the upcoming… Continue reading →
Spooky! Want to know more about the “dark web” or “deep web”? On Friday, February 27, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting Robert Gehl from the University of Utah for a talk on Dark Web Social Networks. While the “dark web” has been in existence for quite some time, the integration of social media… Continue reading →
Looking to enliven your teaching this quarter? Check out this upcoming workshop from the Teaching Effectiveness Program! Blended Courses: Combining Online with Face-to-Face Instruction Week 8: Fri, Feb. 27 2:00-3:30pm, Proctor 42, Knight Library Facilitator: Robert Voelker-Morris Discover how courses combine face-to-face instruction with online teaching in ways that increase student engagement and learning. Participants… Continue reading →
Curious about physical computing? Want to play around with “sensors, blinkers, and bits”? Want to try programming an awesome little Arduino? On Friday, February 6, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting an Introduction to Physical Computing Workshop, where participants will learn the basics of the Arduino Uno. This event is open to all UO faculty, staff,… Continue reading →
2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, will lecture tomorrow on “From Publics to Networks.” Prof. Chun is professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, and the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006) and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011). Details: Wendy Hui Kyong… Continue reading →
