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Our own Charlie Edwards often refers to the OpenLab team as worker bees, and this month we very much are–the whole OL group, our developers and…well, everyone…are busily working away still on our major August update. That said, only a couple short items this week…
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Featured Tutorial: Share This, Redux
Last week we introduced the Share This tutorial–and we promised that this week we would give some explanaition of how its options work. Well, we did it! And you can find the full tutorial here. As always, email us with any questions.
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Featured Blog: Tributaries
This week’s Featured Bog isn’t here on the OpenLab, but on the CUNY Academic Commons. It’s George Otte’s most recent contribution to the ongoing discussion about the relationship between technology and pedagogy–in particular the MOOCs (yes, that’s how it sounds–it stands for “massive open online courses”) which have been getting so much press of late. You can read George’s insightful piece here.
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A Bit of News: The Digital Library of America
Because we love libraries, and online open materials, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that “The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (on July 26th) announced a $1 million award to support the incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation’s libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online.” You can read more about this project, which is being done jointly with Harvard, here.
