There’s nothing quite like serendipitous discovery. I love going into the stacks to look for one book, and coming back with an armful of others that pique my interest. Don’t […]
Google NGram Viewer — “Culturomics”?
The NGram Viewer from Google made a splash when it was introduced in December of 2010. It is essentially a data-mining application that enables queries against Google’s massive digitized books […]
What’s the Dirt?
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. Looking for a tool (preferably free and easy to use) for a scholarly project? Maybe you need to clean up, model, or interpret data. […]
Art History Teaching Resources: Not Just for Art Historians
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. The first week in February, I attended the annual College Art Association conference in Washington, DC and co-chaired a panel titled Rethinking Online Pedagogies […]
Unburied Treasure: Discovering ARTstor Collections
While on an expedition through the ARTstor Digital Library’s more than 1.9 million arts and humanities related images, you might use ARTstor’s robust search and filtering functionality to hunt for […]
Twine 2.0: Not just for storytelling
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. For the past several years, I’ve been interested in storytelling as a means of improving student communication skills in any media. When I talk […]
Catalyst Lifehacks
Now that you’re back and shaking the dust off of your research brain, let’s look at some handy Catalyst features that might get overlooked when you’re otherwise laser-focused on cranking […]
Privacy Rights: What We Click Away
Recently I had to give up my personal Facebook archive. It’s a long and boring story, but something I never expected to be asked to do and it felt wrong…maybe […]
“I swear I’m not texting!” Put your phone to good use in class.
Are your fingers just itching to use your phone in class? Citations making you crazy? Dreading your bibliography? We can help. Attend one of our online workshops this semester to […]
New Collaboration Tool
The BLC now has group study rooms with ClickShare Technology. ClickShare is a very easy way of displaying your laptop screen to the projector. No hassling with webpages or connecting to […]