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  • Learn Digital Tools in Summer Studio

    July 25, 2019 /

    The Research, Instruction, Technology (RIT) staff are hosting a series of Summer Studio events designed to offer the opportunity to learn more about digital scholarship and to experiment with digital tools. All are welcome, and there is no prior experience necessary. Please add these future summer studio dates to your calendar. Each meeting will focus on learning a new digital tool and will meet at 11 am in Computing Lab B02: Monday, July 29th:            Storymap JS (A Knightlab tool that tells stories using maps) led by Cheryl Cape Monday, August 5th:          Voyant (A web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts) led by Jason Jones Monday, August 12th:      …

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  • Black History Month Crowdsourcing event

    February 19, 2019 /

    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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  • WITT Symposium Wednesday, December 12

    November 2, 2018 /

    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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  • Immersive Storytelling

    May 1, 2018 /

    Digital Storytelling is not a new concept. It has been a popular format for projects for years and is growing in popularity here at Trinity. With the increasing availability of 360 degree cameras and Virtual Reality Headsets (from cheap Google Cardboard type headsets to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive systems) Digital Storytelling is evolving to include a new format often called Immersive Storytelling. Immersive Stories can be 360 degree videos or fully developed interactive Virtual Worlds. The  formerly passive viewer is now an active participant in the storyscape. For a sample of the power of this approach see a The Wait which is a Masters Thesis project created by students…

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