While not the determining factor in whether an interview was a success or not, the words ‘digital humanities’ almost always acted as a key talking point of interest and helped propel my job hunt along.
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Grad-student Positions in Research and Instructional Technology (RITC)
Published: March 23, 2017UCLA Graduate students in any department of the Humanities Division, or a department that is affiliated with the Digital Humanities Program, are eligible to work for up to three years…
Read MoreTesting Simulacra
Published: March 21, 2017Returning to the online world, we often see such twisting of truths by reports that take grasp of a scientific study and report only a single, sensational line from what…
Read MoreTech in the Foreign Language Classroom
Published: February 21, 2017There is probably no more efficient and dynamic way than technology to give your students access to interesting, informative, and engaging content in the target language. Technology can also, however,…
Read MoreReimagining Humanities Education in the 21st Century
Published: January 4, 2017There’s no question that higher education is undergoing a transformation. Over the past few years, rising tuition costs and a slow economic recovery have driven tremendous interest in, and experimentation…
Read MoreSimplified Activity Chooser
Published: December 20, 2016December 20, 2016 CCLE has released an new customization of the Moodle source code that dramatically improves usability. A new, simplified activity chooser allows you to quickly access the items…
Read MoreHumTech at the center of promising campus collaboration
Published: December 19, 2016When arriving to UCLA in 2008, I was surprised to see just how decentralized the campus was in approaching the technological needs of the students, faculty, and staff, and the…
Read MoreMachine learning, stories and the Internet
Published: December 19, 2016Recently published work in the Journal of Medical Internet Research is the product of several years of collaboration between Professor Vwani Roychowdhury’s group in UCLA’s Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor…
Read MoreVisualizing Data with Tableau
Published: December 14, 2016Drum Corps International (DCI) labels itself “Marching Music’s Major League”, and it is the amalgamation of years of musical study, marching precision, and entertainment. Participants range in age from 14-21…
Read More3D Printing the Thoreau Bust
Published: November 7, 2016Last time we looked at how photogrammetry was used to reconstruct the 1898 bust sculpture of Henry David Thoreau. Now we will see how 3D printing can create a copy…
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