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Creating and hosting interactive maps

October 20, 2019 November 2, 2019 By Taylor Hixson

NYUAD Librarian for Geospatial Data Services is holding a hands-on workshop about creating and hosting interactive web maps with the QGIS plugin qgis2web and GitHub. The workshop will take place on 13 November from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in NYUAD Library room

NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities 2020

August 25, 2019 August 25, 2019 By Elizabeth A Russell

The inaugural Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (19-22 January 2020) is an event exploring the intersection of technology and the humanities. It will feature intensive courses led by global experts, as well as lectures and opportunities in community building in

The Teaching with Technology Series: Muslim Popular Culture

September 17, 2017 May 7, 2017 By Elizabeth A Russell

During the Spring 2017 semester, Visiting Arts Professor, Fawzia Afzal Khan, used NYU Web Publishing in order to create a multimedia learning space, and a publicly viewable forum, for her Muslim Popular Culture class. Staff from the Center for Digital Scholarship

The CDS Teaching with Technology Series: Danielle Ompad

September 23, 2018 April 25, 2017 By Rebecca Pittam

The CDS technology series continued with a visit from New York Faculty member Danielle Ompad Associate Professor, College of Global Public Health. Danie and Instructional Designer Sharon Kay reached out the CDS to help assist in making 6 short instructional videos whilst Danie was

Digital Humanties Meet Up: Digitizing Historical Maps

September 18, 2017 March 30, 2017 By Rebecca Pittam

This hands on session led by Rebecca Pittam, Academic Technology Specialist, Nicholas Martin, Librarian for Archives and Special Collections, David Wrisley, Visiting Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and Matt Sumner, Data Services Librarian, explored creating digital images of archival maps of

The CDS Teaching with Technology Series: Rachel Brulé

September 17, 2017 December 15, 2016 By Rebecca Pittam

As part of our effort to highlight interesting work being done by our faculty, we will occasionally write posts that feature NYUAD faculty using technology in creative ways in their research and teaching. The CDS Teaching with Technology Series: Rachel Brulé Assistant

The CDS Teaching with Technology Series: Debra Levine

September 17, 2017 February 10, 2016 By Elizabeth A Russell

As part of our effort to highlight interesting work being done by our faculty, we are launching a Teaching with Technology series on the CDS blog. We will occasionally write posts that feature NYUAD faculty using technology in interesting ways

Bringing Video to the Classroom

September 17, 2017 December 9, 2015 By Rebecca Pittam

Video courtesy of the Instructional Video Module team in New York. Incorporating instructional videos into the classroom as a supplement for teaching can have several benefits on student learning. Commonly called Blended Learning or the Flipped Classroom model, using media