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Profiles of Key Cyberinfrastructure Organizations

Posted December 16th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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We present here a collection of short profiles, specially written for Academic Commons, on key service organizations and networks that will be poised to assist and lead others who are working to bring a rich cyberinfrastructure into play. Some are older humanities organizations for which cyberinfrastructure is a totally new environment, others have been created specifically around the provision of digital resources and support.

Version 2 of bFree, the Blackboard Course Extractor

Posted October 5th, 2007 by Jennifer Curran, Academic Commons
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We've received this news from Chapel Hill --

The popular bFree application has been revised to extract far more material from a Blackboard course archive, and to make your exploration and use of that material easier.

The program now extracts Announcements, Discussion Board entries, archives, and attachments, as well as Digital Drop Box and group File Exchange uploads. It continues to extract wiki entries and attachments, Staff Information and attachments, and Content Area pages, including folders, descriptions, links, and attached files of all kinds. Tests, Gradebook, Surveys, Assignments, and Pools are among the content items not yet supported...

 

George Siemens at the ODCE 2007 Conference

Posted April 24th, 2007 by Mark Cubberley, Wright State University-Lake Campus
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"When you look at knowledge as the central aspect, or the central product of education today, it would suggest that if knowledge itself changes significantly or substantially, that we also would need to consider the framework and the design of the organizations that we use to create, disseminate, share, evaluate that knowledge." 

George Siemens, author of Knowing Knowledge, Associate Director of Research and Development with the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, and founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., was the keynote speaker at the Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference in Columbus, Ohio (March 4-6).

In this address, Siemens shared some of his thoughts on knowledge and technology and their implications for educational organizations.

Flickrology

Posted March 29th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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With over 1 billion photos in play and an estimated 11,000 images served per second on a busy day, Flickr is an increasingly important image resource. There's been a recent flurry of discussion on some lists and blogs about using Flickr to share images within institutions or nonprofit groups.

Digital Image Interview Series: Henry Art

Posted March 9th, 2007 by Jennifer Curran, Academic Commons
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Digital Image Interview Series
Henry Art, Biology/Environmental Science, Williams College

Henry Art, the Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of Biology at Williams College, has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He has taught courses in environmental studies, field botany, ecology and land use planning, through the biology department and the environmental studies program. His research includes long-term ecological studies of the Hopkins Memorial Forest. Innovative use of images has been key to both his teaching and research. In this interview, he is joined by Jonathan Leamon, a member of Williams's Office for Instructional Technology.


Academic Commons: How have you used images in your teaching and how has digital technology come into play?
Art: Images are key to the way I teach. For example, I've been teaching a new course on the natural history of the Berkshires. We've set up a website on the Williams CONTENTdm server with maps, video and images of various physical sites that are used in the course, and we've now made this available to the public:

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