Hello everyone, In an effort to best serve the Academy community, the Academic Technology Team has created an online survey that we are asking all faculty to complete. We are hoping to use this data to help guide us in some technology decisions and help begin the process of creating a roadmap of where the [...]
Documenting student artwork and storing it in an organized, retreivable and editable way is a challenge that the Fine Arts department has been struggling with for some time. The digital images that need to be stored, edited and organized with useful file names – and in a resolution high enough to allow for reproduction of [...]
Another great site that I’ve been using is Calibre. It is an eBook management site (www.calibre-ebook.com). This is a site that needs to be downloaded onto a computer in order to use it. (Project Gutenberg does not require downloading). Calibre can be kind of confusing to navigate and I’m still learning. I think that it [...]
In an effort to: – cut down on the 1,920 pagers of copier paper used per year per Academy members – cut down on person-hours spent transcribing handwriting – cut down on human transcription errors – help us collect data faster – help us collect more data – help us collect more verbose data …I [...]
Here’s what I covered during my announcement during today’s faculty meeting: – I am aiming to run a full class page and roster update on the portal in the next 24-48 hours. – The library now has 10 Kindles. Go try them out! – In the last 7 days 209 people have logged into STJLabs [...]
Kindles can be registered through Amazon, but we are forgoing this step at the library (for now) because we don’t want to purchase books only through one source. One resource that I’ve found to be invaluable is Project Gutenberg ( www.projectgutenberg.org/catalog/) This resource is a collection of books that are out of copyright or public [...]
I love books. I suppose it is fitting that I have chosen fields that surround them. Books open up new worlds and ideas. They can be philosophical, or adventurous, or completely inane. It isn’t just what is inside them that I love: stories, songs, poems, plays… But the sensory experience as well. I love how [...]
There are more students and faculty than ever before using the portal and the STJLabs systems, which is fantastic! This also means that more people than ever need to have their passwords reset for many different reasons. Here’s everything you need to know about resetting passwords: 1) Please only send students to me (SV21) during [...]
If you’d like to apply to receive one of the two convertible tablet laptops I’ll be bringing to campus, please make sure you fill out the application by tomorrow (Friday, 9/2) at 3pm. The application is online right here: http://bit.ly/r250VE