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An Introduction to Blogs & Blogging
If you use the Internet with any regularity, you're probably already familiar with weblogs (or blogs). In fact, given the ever-skyrocketing popularity of blogs, you may already be a regular reader of one or more blogs, if not a blogger yourself....
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Academic Blogging: The Material World Blog, Blogging to Build Class Community, Sivacracy.net
As the launch of a University-wide blog service nears, several NYU faculty members describe how they have used blogs to enhance and extend their scholarship...
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ALEX: Powered by Sakai, Guided by Faculty
Over the past decade, faculty at NYU have used a wide variety of tools to supplement the in-person time spent with their students. These have ranged from simple web pages, to free commodity services such as Yahoo Groups or Google Docs, to NYU-supported tools including Prometheus, Blackboard, and Docent....
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Case Study in Instructional Technology: The Spring 2007 Instructional Technology Fellowship
Given the number of new technologies to choose from, a faculty member at an institution such as NYU who is preparing to teach his or her course may ask, "Which technologies can help students learn in my class, and how can I use these technologies effectively..."
Organic Meets Inorganic In Silico: Chemistry in the "Virtual Laboratory"
Chemistry is often referred to as the central science, sharing common "boundaries" with biology, medicine, materials engineering, physics, neural science, geology, and numerous other fields. Diverse problems ranging from the design of novel materials, to the development of new drug compounds, to the construction of a quantum computer all embody at their core...
RefWorks: Beyond Bibliographies
Do you enjoy most aspects of research, but dread the final job of creating a formatted bibliography? Thankfully, the days of sweating over where to add each comma in bibliographic citations are gone; software that generates and formats bibliographies now makes the tedium associated with this important but time-consuming aspect of research a thing of the...
Insight & Art History Learning at NYU
Online digital imaging databases are quickly becoming the standard technology of art history departments at universities across the country, thanks in part to recent improvements in usability, software, and hardware. Most digital imaging solutions currently in use offer versatile tools for displaying images, the ability to share images and textual data, and the security of routine database backups....
Data Handling: With Ease Comes Responsibility
In today's world, most critical and personally identifiable information is stored in electronic format. From a business perspective, storing such information electronically makes it possible to deliver quick and efficient services to clients by being able to look up and uniquely identify them. However, given that such data is easily accessible, there exists an increased risk...
Using GIS to Examine Environmental Injustice in the South Bronx: The Case of Waste Transfer Stations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as "...the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies."...
Roaming into the Future: The Ever-Evolving NYURoam Wireless Network
When NYU's Information Technology Services (ITS) embarked on a new generation of data networking by launching the first version of the NYURoam wireless network in 2003, we were confident that wireless networking would be embraced by the NYU....
i-Buy: Purchasing Services' New Shopping Marketplace
Have you ever wished that you could shop for products for work in the same way that you shop online for yourself at home? Wish no more: NYU's Purchasing Services has just launched the new i-Buy system, an e-commerce portal that supplements the existing...
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Administrative Computing News:
Webgrade & JEMS
ITS is in the initial stages of developing, in collaboration with the University Registrar, a system known as Webgrade that will enable NYU faculty to submit final course grades via the Internet. In addition, ITS recently launched JEMS, a web-based NYU Workflow application that facilitates the creation, approval, and validation of "Actuals" journal entries...
Learn more about ITS' plans to launch University-wide blog and wiki services...
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NYU Meeting Maker: A Brief Look at Version 8.6
Meeting Maker is a collaborative calendar and group scheduling software package provided by ITS to NYU faculty and staff. Meeting Maker makes it easy to schedule meetings, invite attendees, plan activities, keep a prioritized to-do list, and coordinate...