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July 14 - Scalar in the Classroom workshop (10:30am-12:30pm)

July 7, 2020
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed to make it easy for authors and instructors to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. This workshop is focused on adapting existing course assignments to Scalar. 
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July 10 - Introduction to Panopto workshop (12:00-12:45pm)

July 6, 2020

Panopto allows a user to easily record and manage audio and video content, and is installed on all FAS/GSAS Canvas sites. This workshop will cover all the basics of the tool, including how you can use it with or insteaed of Zoom, setting permissions, editing, and additional features that may benefit your courses.

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April 14 Workshop: Online Writing Assignments with Scalar

April 7, 2020
Are you looking for a way to make a final writing project or capstone assignment more remote-friendly? In this workshop, staff from Academic Technology and the Bok Center will introduce faculty and TFs to Scalar, a free, open-source authoring and publishing platform, and provide assistance planning and remediating course assignments.
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View a recorded 'Teaching Remotely with Zoom' workshop

March 22, 2020
Engage with Academic Technology for FAS's introductory 'Teaching Remotely with Zoom' workshop at the time and place of your choosing by following this link. Topics covered include chat, screen sharing, and managing participants within Zoom, as well as creating and hosting Zoom meetings from your Canvas course site.
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Coronavirus planning: Zoom Training to Support Teaching

March 7, 2020

As you may be aware, Dean Gay has asked FAS faculty to familiarize themselves with Zoom in preparation for possible interruptions to residential teaching due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Her message to faculty (included below) highlights the training and resources now available to faculty and instructional support staff, and we hope you will share these resources within your departments. Read more...

Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations, 4pm to 6pm on Feb 27, 2020 at Lamont Library B-30

Feb. 27: Visual Eloquence

February 26, 2020
Visual Eloquence is a participatory workshop on visualizing data and understanding the powerful role it plays in analysis and presentation for digital scholarship. Pizza is provided! Register free on the Harvard Training Portal.
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Discovery Series Talk, Nov. 6: Identity, Personhood, and Material Culture

October 25, 2019
Wed., Nov. 6, 2-3pm at Cabot Science Library: Concentration camps were much more than a corollary to National Socialism: they represented the most fully articulated manifestation of its ideology. This talk will showcase the use of advanced digital techniques to shed light on one of the most crucial steps in the admissions process, the removal of personal effects from arriving prisoners, and explore how we can use these objects to gain insight about their owners, the system that victimized them, and the distinctions it created.... Read more about Discovery Series Talk, Nov. 6: Identity, Personhood, and Material Culture
Digital Futures Discovery Series, October 2, 2019, 2-3pm at Cabot Science Library: Using Augmented Reality to Improve Physics Learning in Maker Spaces

Discovery Series Talk: Using Augmented Reality to Improve Physics Learning in Maker Spaces

September 25, 2019

Wed., Oct. 2, 2-3pm at Cabot Science Library: Emerging technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) have the potential to radically transform education by making invisible phenomena to become visible and accessible to novice learners. This talk, by Iulian Radu of HGSE's Learning, Innovation and Technology Lab, discusses research projects at the intersection of makerspaces, physics education, and immersive technologies... Read more about Discovery Series Talk: Using Augmented Reality to Improve Physics Learning in Maker Spaces

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Plan Ahead for AV Needs

September 6, 2019

FAS courses can use all the readily-available classroom technology in most classrooms (including, but not limited to, projectors and speakers). In addition, courses can request lecture recordings (semester-long or individual sessions), teaching staff training, in-class support, loaner equipment, and other services.... Read more about Plan Ahead for AV Needs

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