These days it’s very easy to be cynical about your data privacy; it feels as if every big company has been hacked or leaked some of your private data. In…
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AI and Language Learning: Practice Conversation Skills
Published: June 4, 2024Helping students practice conversation skills is one of the most challenging aspects of our foreign language classes! Your students may not get enough 1:1 time with you, they may not…
Read MoreAI as my Copilot – Improved ALT-text
Published: May 3, 2024Creating accessible web-based content is important for everyone , whether we’re creating public-facing web pages or uploading instructional content. A fundamental aspect of web accessibility involves providing ALT-text for images…
Read MoreSmall Bytes Workshops return for Spring!
Published: March 22, 2023The 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…
Read MoreHumanities 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…
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