Learn something new for your teaching or research every day during Open Access Week! All workshops will be online; join us from the comfort of your office or home. MONDAYData Visualization I: Explore and Clean Data with OpenRefineMonday, Oct 25th at 1:15pm This workshop will introduce OpenRefine, a powerful but user-friendly program for exploring and…
Category: Maps
Announcing the Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a year-long collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions will host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce faculty to different digital scholarship tools and approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Workshops this fall include mapping with ArcGIS…
This Is Big: Smithsonian Makes Millions of Digital Items Available with CC0 License
Almost 3 million digital items – images, video, data, 3D items – from the Smithsonian’s collections are now available with a CC0 license. This license allows anyone to use, remix, transform, and share these assets without asking permission from the Smithsonian. According to the FAQ, the Smithsonian will release over 3 million items throughout 2020,…
Using ThingLink to Easily Create & Share Interactive Images
The new year has arrived, and now is the perfect time to try out new tools and techniques in your course! If your new year’s resolution involved presenting dynamic, interactive course material or encouraging your students to experiment with a new technological tool, then read on to learn about how to utilize ThingLink to enrich…
Visualization of Data Series Lunch Friday
Visualization of Data Series: Visualization of Space with Story Maps Friday, November 1 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Davis Classroom Have you ever wondered how scholars and organizations create interactive maps? Do you have an idea for map, but don’t know how to get started? Or maybe you’ve worked in Google Maps, but your ideas require…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
Digital Storytelling Tools: StoryMapJS
I recently led a Teaching with Technology workshop to introduce faculty to free, online digital storytelling tools that can enhance presentations with maps, timelines, and and narrative data content. You can download my PowerPoint presentation via Slideshare, which includes information about data visualization, images from the University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute that I…
Using Historypin to Engage Students with Place
Becky Parmer, Archivist for Connecticut College, wrote the following post for our blog. Thank you, Becky! Historypin is a user-generated online archive that enables users to engage with history through digital storytelling. By overlaying or “pinning” photographs, documents, video, and audio recordings on Google Maps, users from around the world help create digital narratives of…
Mapping Women’s Movements
Following up on our earlier post about Google Maps Engine Lite, Ariella Rotramel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, recently created a collaborative assignment using Google Maps in her Transnational Women’s Movements class last semester. The goal of the class project was to “help students explore a broader range of women’s movements beyond…