Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Category Archives: Lab Notes
Teaching Writing with Comic Books
Multimodal composition is core to the first-year writing curriculum at the University of Rochester. Alongside term papers, students create short movies, interactive websites, comic strips, and more. Comic Life (comiclife.com) is a software program designed to create everything from single-panel cartoons to comic strips to full-length graphic novels. It is relatively easy to use; usually …
Teaching Blender: Karp Library Fellows Experiences with Studio X
By Emma SchaaleKarp Library Fellow, Public Programs Coordinator for Studio XJune 2020 – October 2020Area of Focus: Varies between considering branding for Studio X, creating promotional materials, and conceptualizing workshop for Studio X’s fall programming For the past month, I’ve been working on an exciting project… a Blender workshop for Studio X, which took place on Wednesday, …
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Modern Ways of Knowing: Monitoring Trees in the Cloud
A collaborative mapping effort to further integrate the University’s tree collection into ArcGIS (Geographic Information Systems). A tree inventory database consists of information such as tree location, height, diameter, condition, and hazards. It can be leveraged to monitor trends, enhance maintenance flows, and engage the community.
DigITaL: Digital Ideas for Teaching & Learning
DigITaL is an interactive and educational portal where instructors can share and access reviews, tutorials, and other materials related to bringing new technologies into the classroom, for use in their own teaching. Each case study will carry a Creative Commons license which allows for the open exchange of ideas and materials to be reused, remixed, …
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Presenting on Mediate at ACH
ACH and Mediate The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Conference took place at the Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA, July 32-26, 2019. While this conference might seem out of scope for me–an undergraduate studying Psychology and Language, Media, & Communications–I was there to present on work I had done as a teaching …
Imaging Ancient Roman Tablets
Supporting Research In the fall of 2018, I was part of a small research team, comprised of Classics Professor Nicholas Gresens, undergrads Elise Lia, ’20, and Shaim Mahir, ’21, that traveled to the province of L’Aquila in Southern Italy. The focus of the trip was to image ancient Roman writing tablets that had been found …
Digital Pedagogy Workshop 2019
Thoughtful Pedagogy, Innovative Projects The digital pedagogy workshop series began in August 2018 as a means to cultivate a learning community around digital pedagogy among the University of Rochester faculty and staff in an environment where faculty, librarians, and Digital Scholarship Lab specialists could work together to inspire new collaborations. Over the course of two …
Library Consortium Receives Grant to Support Data and Digital Literacy
Ninety percent of the world’s data is only two years old, and the tools, methods, and platforms to explore and use it are continually evolving. The overwhelming pace at which information and technology are created is making digital and data literacy both a high priority and a daunting task for librarians. These literacies are increasingly …
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Dynamic Maps Using CSV, Google Earth, KML and ArcGIS Online
In Fall 2018, Professor Molly Ball’s History 252: Immigration in the Americas students developed original research based on archival and primary sources to explore how Rochester’s own immigrant history can not only enrich our understanding of the city’s history, but also further our understanding of transnational immigrant experiences throughout the Americas. One of the ways …
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Digitizing on a Big Scale: the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt
At the occasion of the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation collaborated with the Digital Scholarship Lab to create a new digital reproduction of the University of Rochester’s NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt. The 12’x12′ panel includes notes, tributes, and signatures collected in April 1994, when the national AIDS quilt …
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Visualizing Sea Levels- GIS Class Exercise
The Digital Scholarship Lab collaborated with professor Carmala Garzione (Earth and Environmental Sciences) to create an exercise for her sedimentology course to examine sea level change’s impact on geologic formation. The goals for the exercise were: Must be completed in one course period Expose students to open source GIS tools Show students where to download …
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Identifying What You See
One of the most interesting parts of working in digitization at a large institution is the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of materials from different eras. My day to day work typically sees me digitizing a fair amount of manuscripts and correspondence with some photographs and 3D objects interspersed. Recently, a collection of …
Hunt-Lenox Globe in 3D
Gregory Heyworth, Associate Professor of English and Textual Science, Director, Lazarus Project
Digital Pedagogy Workshop
Digital Pedagogy On August 9th and 10th, Stu Jordan (Faculty Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) and Emily Sherwood (Director, Digital Scholarship Lab) co-facilitated the Digital Pedagogy Workshop aimed at helping faculty develop a project for a course that utilized digital tools and methods. Ten faculty members from seven departments spent a day …
Medieval and Early Modern Seals Under a New Light
The Digitization Lab discusses the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to reveal details in seals from medieval and early modern manuscripts housed in RBSCP.
Public Art & Omeka
This past spring, Kim Hoffman & I were invited by the Memorial Art Gallery to lead a workshop on teaching with Omeka in high schools. In the months leading up to this workshop we racked our brains to come up with a sample collection of materials to use for the workshop. Ultimately we decided to …
RCL Mini-Digital Scholarship Institute
ARL DSI The past few years, members of the Digital Scholarship Lab have helped teach classes at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Digital Scholarship Institute. The institute aims to introduce library professionals to digital scholarship methods and tools in order to broaden their knowledge base and help them understand the demands of supporting these …
Upgrading the Digitization Lab
In May 2017, to meet the demands for modern digital preservation standards, the River Campus Libraries and the Digital Scholarship Lab invested in a new digitization system. The University, advised by Lisa Wright, Digitization Specialist, and former director of DSL, Nora Dimmock, chose the best of what the market had to offer, a camera and copy stand from Digital Transitions, a company dedicated to imaging solutions for the …
Today On the Print Bed in the DSL
Today on our Cube printer, we are making a 3D print of the statue of Minerva located in the Great Hall of Rush Rhees Library. The print was generated from a 3D scan made by a Faro laser scanner. This past year we have been experimenting with different methods of capturing spatial data to use …
Some Collaborations
Humanities Lab- ENG 283 Media ABC Spring 2009 This class had a separate lab section where students used digital tools to explore new modes of humanities scholarship. Curriculum included the introduction to markup languages (xml, html and kml), website publishing, and photo editing for the web. Digital tools used included ftp, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, …