FTC BLOG PROJECT
FTC BLOG
The Faculty Technology Center has been involved in exploring new uses for blogs in educational environments. For an overview of the history of blogs, the incredible uses of blogs on the internet today, & how blogs are currently being used in higher education. Check out the FTC blog here>.

For the Educational Communications & Technologies blog, click here>.

Other interesting blog sites:
ReBlog: A distillation of the best art & technology blog posts on the web. Developed by Eyebeam Atelier.

RESEARCH RESOURCES FROM NYU GROUPS:

The Hemispheric Institute Performance Video Archive:
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. The Digital Library Team, working in conjunction with the Hemispheric Institute and NYU's Humanities Computing Group, is developing an online archive of over 200 performance videos to be made publicly available over the Internet.
Project Lead: Eric Stedfeld
Related links: Digital Library Group, Humanities Computing Group

The Scientific Visualization Lab:
Offers graphics and videographics resources, high-performance 3-D workstations, and visualization, along with expert advice and consultation in the use of these resources. High-performance servers can be accessed from lab workstations. For more information about this lab, visit the ITS 14 Washington Computer Lab page, or call 1-212-998-3058 or 1-212-998-3159.


Creating Digital Image Resources:
The Digital Library team has put together a number of resources and good practice guides to creating digital image databases & projects.
Related Links: Creating Digital Video projects ; Creating Audio projects ; 3D projects ; GIS projects ; Digital Library Team

NYU DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECTS:
The Afghanistan Digital Library
The ultimate purpose of the project is to make available both on readable electronic media and on the internet the entire publishing output of Afghanistan, searchable by title, author, subject, and date. The project will begin with the earliest books and proceed chronologically. At some point, a decision may be made to expand the scope to include rare newspapers, journals, and government documents but at the outset the project will be limited to books...more>>

Electronic Resources & eTexts from NYU Libraries : Search the etexts and eJournals database by title, author, subject. While here, also check out the incredible resources within the specialized collections:

• ScienceDirect : Full text of research journal articles, abstract databases and reference works. Covers a range of subjects such as Agriculture & Biological sciences, Arts & Humanities, Decision sciences, Physics & Astronomy, etc.
  
• Books 24X7: Full texts of books classified under 2 categories : ITPro & Office Essentials.
  
• JSTOR: An archive of scholarly journals.
  
• ProjectMuse: Full texts of more than 200 scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social sciences & Mathematics.