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Day of Digital Scholarship
Information Services is organizing Trinity College’s first Day of Digital Scholarship to be held on April 9th. From noon to 2:00 p.m., students and faculty will have the chance to display their digital scholarship and discuss it with members of the campus community in the library’s Center for Educational Technology and Digital Scholarship Lab. Faculty who assign digital projects as part of course work may want to encourage students to share finished work, or to share works in progress and get feedback. We are interested in submissions of digital scholarship defined broadly, including but not limited to digital exhibits, websites, films, portfolios, podcasts, timelines, maps, data analysis and visualizations, etc.…
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Black History Month Crowdsourcing event
Join us on Tuesday, February 26th from noon to 2 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Studio for a Black History Month Crowdsourcing event. Bring your lunch and a laptop (limited chromebooks will be available) and help contribute to efforts to make archives celebrating black history more publicly available. Participants may choose among projects hosted by the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, and other sites to transcribe manuscript collections or help create and edit Wikipedia entries to increase awareness of important women in black history as part of the Women in Red campaign. No previous skill required. Snacks provided. Please contact Mary Mahoney with any questions at Mary.Mahoney@trincoll.edu Sample Projects: Projects from…
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Read the November issue of our new newsletter Bantam Bytes
Review the latest educational technology activities and events in the inaugural issue of Bantam Bytes, a new monthly newsletter.
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WITT Symposium Wednesday, December 12
On Wednesday, December 12th Educational Technology & Research Services will host a Winter Institute on Teaching with Technology, a half-day event with sessions on teaching with film, annotating online with Hypothes.is, using PollEverywhere, OneSearch, and more. At lunch, Roopika Risam (Salem State) will give a talk on “Torn Apart/Separados,” a rapid-response project that highlights the potential of digital humanities methods for anticolonial social justice work. This event will take place from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in LITC 181. For more information, please contact Amy Harrell. Preliminary program 9:00 Welcome remarks 9:05 Using Poll Everywhere (Cheryl Cape, Luke Phelan, presenters). See a demonstration of this audience polling tool you can use in the…
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Using Kaltura to Stream Movies on Recent Versions of macOS and iOS
Kaltura is the tool Trinity College uses to deliver streaming video for classes, and in general it is working pretty well on various browsers and operating systems. However, many people who access Kaltura on an up-to-date iOS or macOS device are greeted with a puzzling error: “It seems your browser is blocking 3rd party session cookies which are required for the Kaltura application. To resolve this issue, please update your settings to allow 3rd party cookies.” This is happening because in recent updates Apple have changed a default preference, turning on a new feature called “Prevent Cross-Site Tracking.” This breaks Kaltura, which needs to be able to set a cookie…
