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[Discovery Series] Adversity reporting in counselor recommendation letters

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Our study provides a survey of the various framing devices that counselors use to share students' adversities in their recommendation letters. Admission officers use contextual data about students' background, personal qualities, and interests to inform...

HUIT Supports Cutting-Edge Bioinformatics Research Tools in a Freshman Seminar

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By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist, Academic Technology for FAS In Fall 2016, two HUIT groups – Academic Technology for FAS and the division of IT Support Services responsible for managing Harvard’s computer classrooms – collaborated to...

Classroom Experiments Using EconVision

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The goal for this project was to use EconVision, a web-based tool for classroom experiments, to develop interactive instructional materials for courses on political and economic decision-making. These materials would enable students to actively play the...

Academic Technology, History, and Harvard Library team up to offer inaugural Digital Scholarship seminar

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On March 8, 9, and 10, 2017, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural seminar on the Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship, a three-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that...

Oct. 15 - 'Data Feminism,' with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein (12:00pm)

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Join us for a Harvard Discovery Series talk on Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. Registration for this free virtual event is available at this link.

MATLAB

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MATLAB ® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. You can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications using MATLAB. The FAS site license agreement with MATLAB...

Data Visualization: Resources for Teaching, Learning, and Research

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Data visualization, the presentation of data in a visual (pictorial, graphical, or other) format, can provide access to analytic trends and concepts in numeric, temporal, gospatial, or textual data that may otherwise be difficult to spot. Common tools...

Employ Digital Methods in a Supported Environment with the Digital Toolkit (DTK)

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Note: The Digital Toolkit was deprecated in 2019. Academic Computing is now supported through Academic Technology's Academic Computing service . Every class session of the semester is valuable. Whether you're teaching a Digital Methods course or...

Using the Art of Numbers to Predict the Weather

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The goal of this project was to produce a web-based mobile application that would: Give students a visual representation of the weather forecast based on modern forecasting services (e.g., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA) and...

Sarah Richardson: Collaborative Timelines

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In Professor Richardson’s course, History of Science 139: The Post-Genomic Moment, students collaborated to develop a rich historical timeline .

Learning, Teaching & Research Themes

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Are there things you'd like to do in your teaching or research where technology could help? We can help you identify technologies to support your teaching and learning. Explore technologies faculty are already using and find out how you can try them out...

Methods and Tools for Taking Attendance

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QR Codes & Digital Sign-in QR Code (Recommended): Instructor displays a rotating QR code that students capture with an app (Qwickly) Students receive a QR code at the start of the semester, which they scan for attendance. (Canvas Cape) QR code is...