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My name is Miriam Posner, and I'm the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Emory University Libraries. You can read more about me here.Archives
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Category Archives: Tools
Building a conference website on WordPress
Hey, we launched the new site for the digital humanities conference at Yale! You should come! It’s February 19 to February 20, and don’t forget to register. I was interested in the challenge of building a conference program that’s easy … Continue reading
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Forget my hard drive, I’m moving to the cloud
A couple weeks ago, I pulled out my laptop and noticed a suspicious splash of water sandwiched between the plastic case and the computer. Pressing the power button yielded nothing but a sad, whirring fan. I was seriously bummed about … Continue reading
Dapper: Create an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one
It seems like most sites offer RSS feeds (a method of subscribing to new postings), but every so often I’ll run into a site that doesn’t, but should. For example, say you want to be notified every time a certain … Continue reading
Make tutorials dead-simple with ScreenSteps
If you’re wondering how I got so fancy with my instructions on how to make a DVD clip reel, I had a trick up my sleeve. ScreenSteps is an application specifically designed to create software tutorials. It has everything you … Continue reading
Beyond Bullet Points, or maybe not
I’ve been thinking about PowerPoint lately, and about how I might use it productively. It seems pretty clear that the blizzard-of-bullet-points method is not useful. Who can make sense of such tiny print so quickly? What’s the point of slapping … Continue reading
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Tagged history, pedagogy, powerpoint, presentations, Teaching, visual culture
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How to make a DVD clip reel
If you’re showing film clips in class, you’ll probably want to make a DVD clip reel — your own DVD with the clips you want preloaded on it. That way you can avoid the frenzied scan through chapter titles and … Continue reading
Top 10 iPhone Apps for Librarians
Okay, I don’t actually have an iPhone — I can’t afford the monthly fees. I do have an iPod Touch, though, and I love it with all my heart. I use it most frequently to watch movies at the gym, … Continue reading
Zoom in and out of presentations with Prezi
Prezi is a presentation maker (still in beta) that avoids the standard linear slideshow model. Instead, you can zoom in and out of one big presentation, hopping between ideas however you want. Here’s an example of Prezi in action. I … Continue reading
Make a quick timeline with Google News Timeline
Here’s a kind of fun new visualization tool from GoogleLabs. Google News Timeline lets you search for a topic (after you pick a category) and then arrays significant events on a timeline. I don’t really understand how the Wikipedia category … Continue reading
My favorite tools: Record and edit audio with Audacity
Audacity is a great choice when you need to edit audio. It’s free, but it’s also pretty full-featured: it can record audio, import and export different file formats, and edit sounds. You can even use it to change the pitch … Continue reading
Dropbox: Sync and share files across multiple desktops
If you work on multiple computers, you probably need a way to get ahold of your files and documents. You could email them to yourself, put them on a USB drive, or use a file server, but it might be … Continue reading
My favorite tools: Download YouTube videos with KeepVid
I’m always kind of scandalized when presenters connect to the Internet to show YouTube videos. I mean, if they want to risk it, fine, but why take the chance? The Internet connection could cut out, the wifi could fail, the … Continue reading
My favorite tools: Organize ideas with OmniOutliner
Ugh, the blank page. Nothing sends me spiraling into procrastination faster. OmniOutliner can’t eliminate my fear, but it does help. It’s a little hard to describe this software, because you can use it in a lot of different ways. Its … Continue reading
Flowgram: put interactive multimedia presentations on the Web
Flowgram looks like it could be an interesting tool for putting teaching materials or presentations on the Web. It allows you to build presentations using PowerPoint slides, websites, your own images and documents, and your voice or music. Once you’ve … Continue reading