The Small Bytes workshop series returns in the spring of 2023! We look to introduce a new instructional or research tool (or topic) on a weekly basis. These are not…
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Humanities Technology Brief 002
Published: February 24, 2023Important technology-related changes, deadlines and opportunities for faculty, staff and graduate students in the Humanities. Your office phone line will switch to Zoom Phone on May 15. To ensure we…
Read MoreGetting the best out of AI
Published: February 14, 2023Although artificial intelligence (AI) tools have been around and in use for some time, the rise of ChatGPT, the latest AI entrant, has dramatically increased attention in higher ed and…
Read MoreHumanities Technology Brief 001
Published: January 26, 2023Important technology-related changes, deadlines and opportunities for faculty, staff and graduate students in the Humanities. The Bruin Voice migration for Humanities phone lines is scheduled to go live at the end of…
Read MoreLearn Bruin Learn!
Published: November 24, 2021Since early Fall Quarter 2021, UCLA has been transitioning online teaching and learning content from CCLE to its its new home on Bruin Learn (built on Canvas). Canvas has become…
Read MoreImproving Lecture Videos
Published: February 19, 2021With a few quarters of remote instruction in the books and the shock of transitioning to Zoom and CCLE (hopefully) subsiding, now is a great time to look back and…
Read MoreHumanities AWS Cloud Migration Complete
Published: February 4, 2021HumTech’s Digital Services Group (DSG)—responsible for managing websites, servers, and networking for Humanities—successfully completed the migration of the majority of its websites and applications to servers on Amazon Web Services…
Read MoreExtended Reality (XR) Series (3/4): VSim
Published: December 15, 2020Written by Megan Reusche In part three of four in the XR series, we take a more in-depth look into VR through VSim, a VR software developed by Dr. Lisa…
Read MoreBreaking the Writer’s Block
Published: January 14, 2020As anyone who’s ever had to write anything knows, there’s a whole host of forces seemingly conspiring against your words appearing on the page. Aside from the many sources of…
Read MoreInput Hypothesis
Published: January 14, 2020The idea that language learners need exposure to the language (or “input”) to make progress in the target language is neither surprising nor new. What is surprising is what the…
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