by Lucy Appert & Barbra Mack
Nov 24, 2009
In the spring of 2009, the Liberal Studies Program within the College of Arts and Science partnered with Information Technology Services (ITS) to develop Simonides, a web-based student portfolio of tools that is unique in its flexibility and academic focus.
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by Robyn O. Berland
Nov 24, 2009
This article is the first in a series that looks at digital tools that have been designed to facilitate scholarship by helping us navigate, study, organize, derive meaning from and share the massive and ever-increasing amount of digital content — primary and secondary source materials — that is distributed via the Internet, bringing together digital content with non-digital content through the process of digitization.
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by Liam Fry
Nov 24, 2009
The opening of the Fall 2009 semester brought exciting changes to ITS' public computer locations. Where formerly there were ITS labs and centers, ITS now provides new Academic Technology Centers and NYUHotSpots (or CoLabs), reflecting an important refocusing of operations and services.
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by Paul Galando
Nov 24, 2009
This article offers a brief introduction to podcasting and a look at how NYU departments and faculty members can use podcasting, along with iTunes U and Advanced Learning Exchange (ALEX), or even Files 2, to augment their courses and connect with their students.
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by Taylor Absher
Nov 24, 2009
The ITS Advanced Media Studio (AMS) offers four professional imaging services to NYU students, faculty, alumni with an NYU ID, and visiting artists in participating arts and science programs. Learn more about these services.
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by Lillian Moran & Meredith Rendall
Nov 24, 2009
As part of the NYU Blackboard upgrade during the summer and fall of 2008, ITS embarked on an effort to reach out to University, school, and departmental administrators and staff who are in need of specialized NYU Blackboard support. This became the Blackboard Liaison Program, which now boasts 80 participants from around the University.
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by Frank LoPresti
Nov 24, 2009
This article is a brief introduction to survey sampling theory, and a look at two popular statistical packages (SUDAAN and Stata's "svy") available at the Data Service Studio that allow researchers to use datasets created by sampling. Survey sampling is a large and complex subject, so to give it some context, this article will begin by highlighting three research projects, their associated datasets, and the research issues that led to their creation.
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by Angus Mungal
Nov 24, 2009
Each fall, as a new semester begins, undergraduates, graduates, and professors alike face the same problem—managing copious amounts of readings, notes, and other documents. There are documents for courses, for our individual assignments, and for research questions, websites, and even transcriptions of interviews or other data. If you would like to change the way you organize, manage, and analyze material of this sort, you might consider doing what I have done—using Atlas.ti, a qualitative statistics software package.
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by Tom McNulty
Nov 24, 2009
New & improved databases page, LibGuides, tagging, Ask-a-Librarian & GetIt.
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by Lillian Moran
Nov 24, 2009
Within ITS, Faculty Technology Services (FTS) provides a special focus on NYU faculty and graduate students' technology needs in support of teaching, learning, and research. In addition to operating three high-end studios and providing expert help and training in the development of web-based materials for use in instruction, research, and publication, FTS recently launched an outreach program.
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by Eve Simonsen Martinez with Anthony D'Angelo
Nov 24, 2009
Each year, more than 4,000 NYU students, faculty, and staff travel abroad to our globally networked University’s international academic and research centers, as well as for NYU-sponsored programs, trainings, and excursions at other locations.
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by Sherif Samaan
Nov 24, 2009
Over the course of the fall 2009 semester, ITS has been completing the development of the new NYU South Data Center, and has been moving the hardware on which many of the ITS-supported systems run to this new location in downtown Manhattan.
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by Liam Fry
Nov 24, 2009
ITS' new Print Service offers exceptionally convenient and flexible printing via a more environmentally sustainable process, while also helping to minimize waste. The ITS Print Service is currently available in all the public ITS computer labs & centers.
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by Heather Stewart
Nov 24, 2009
In recent years, institutions of higher learning have begun to examine the potential of sharing course lectures online, for free, with the world. On the forefront of this movement is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which launched a web-based publication known as MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), offering "virtually all MIT course content" to the world, for free. Following this model, many universities and colleges worldwide have joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
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Nov 24, 2009
"NYU's Open Education Pilot Project," "Simonides: A Faculty-Led, Student-Centered Technology Initiative," "NYU Libraries News & Updates: New & Improved Databases Page, LibGuides, Tagging, Ask-a-Librarian & GetIt."
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by Liam Fry
Nov 24, 2009
Want to get started using the new ITS Print Service? Follow this simple how-to.
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