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 →
Summary March was a transitional month for InTRO. We completed our initial round of comparator research, began sharing our findings with both internal and external audiences, and established a framework for our upcoming annual report. An opportunity to attend the UPCEA national conference provided context for our findings and showcased a wide variety of potential… 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 →
The beginning of winter quarter brought a number of new referral projects to InTRO, due in part to increased outreach efforts! Six new projects came our way this month. Four of these projects have been completed, one other has been referred out. One project, in progress, is waiting for responses to plan and proceed, Our referrals… 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 →
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 →
On Thursday, January 29, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will host a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy. Partially funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film is the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his… Continue reading →
This week, join the department of Computer and Information Science for this talk from a member of the CASIT staff! From Research Support to Uncertainty: Visualization at the U of O Kristi Potter, University of Oregon Abstract As a member of CASIT’s research support team I have a unique position that allows me to work on… Continue reading →
Please note: These workshops are designed specifically for faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. If you are not affiliated with a CAS department and are interested in learning more about some of these topics, let the InTRO office know. We can help you find training services. Join CASIT Training Specialist Mike Moresi for… Continue reading →
