Our NYU-licensed Google Calendar offers a quick and simple way to create appointment slots for your office hours that your students can sign up for, without the back-and-forth of emails. Follow these simple steps to set up your interactive appointment slots. Step 1: Create a new calendar just for your office hours. Step 2: Follow the […] Omeka is a content management system (CMS) that allows you to quickly create and manage archives and digital exhibits either individually or as part of a class or research group. Omeka websites can be created without any web design or coding experience, take very little time to install, and offer a user-friendly interface. 36 views of […] Google Maps makes it easy to create your own maps and annotate them by using a variety of media. When you first launch Google My Maps, you are prompted to create a new map or open an existing one. Sign in with your (NYU) Google account to create and save your new map. You can […] Have you created a beautiful timeline and got stuck on how to share it with peers? Try embedding it on a website such as Web Publishing or Omeka. The instructions below are tailored specifically for TimelineJS but can be applied to a number of other timeline platforms. Make sure your timeline can generate an iframe embed code. […] The Digital Public Library of America is an organization that aims to gather the resources and archives of American libraries and museums to make them freely available on the internet. The DPLA recently held two workshops about making GIFs, short web animations, with tools freely available on the web as well as professional image editing software. The […] If you have a large image file, it might make sense to make it smaller. (And it is never a good idea, by the way, of making a small image file larger!) Web Publishing, for instance, has a file size maximum of 10GB. Here are instructions for optimizing your images… Windows Open image in Microsoft Paint […] The Google Assignment Tool (BETA) is a tool created by Google which allows instructors to create, grade, and provide feedback on assignments through the familiar Google Drive interface. Students can create new documents, or select existing documents and files, from their NYU Drive account and submit to the Google Assignment Tool (BETA) for grading and […] HistoryPin is a digital gallery, timeline, and map, all rolled into one beautiful, interactive, and FREE package. It is a way to create an open, crowdsourced archive of images, sound files, and text around a place, neighborhood, or location. You, too, can create a collection, like the San Francisco MTA Photo Archive Collection, or the NYPL Collection. […] What Is Hypothes.is? Hypothes.is is a web annotation tool in the form of a Google Chrome browser plugin, which allows you to add a layer of multimedia comments to virtually any website or PDF published online. Seamlessly integrated in your browsing experience, it offers several ways to improve and organize your digital research, and has proven to be […] Whether you use it for a group project, or solicit your students to submit assignments through its interface, Medium can be a great addition to your academic toolbox. With its WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, Medium pushes the focus to content creation rather than form, simplifying the publishing process if compared with […] Trying to record a video for your class? We compared five screen recording software options to help you find the one that meets your needs. 
How To Create Appointment Slots in Google Calendar
How to Create Digital Archives Using Omeka
How To Customize and Collaborate on Google Maps
How to Embed a Timeline
How To Make a GIF
How to Resize Images
How to Use Google Assignments
How to Use HistoryPin
How to Use Hypothes.is
How To Use Medium In The Classroom
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