Build Your Digital Identity
DigiSpace will be open for a half day on Tuesday, November 20 (from 1:00 – 3:00 pm). We will be closed for Thanksgiving break from 3:00 pm on Tuesday, November 20 – Sunday, November 25. Regular hours will resume on Monday, November 26 at 1:00 pm.
Green screen use is underway this week as students create videos for Spanish class. To review directions for reservations, see this post.
If you would like to use the green screen for a project, please follow the directions below. ONE person per group should make an appointment. All group members should arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled appointment. Green screen filming is currently only available in the evenings. Read this overview document to prepare for your green screen Read More …
Need help with a podcasting assignment? A few of Professor Miller’s students, pictured here, learned to use Audacity for audio editing this week in our new space in Decary 049. Audio editing software like Audacity can make podcasting assignments more interesting and polished. Using the fade feature with background music helps projects sound professional. Learning Read More …
Welcome back! DigiSpace will be staffed this term from 1-3 pm most weekdays (in Decary 049) and 6-9 pm (in Decary 204). We are also open on Sundays from 3 – 9 pm (Decary 204). We look forward to helping with digital projects and ePortfolio development!
DigiSpace will no longer be staffed this term, but the computer lab is still open for use. Our program has grown significantly in the past year. We more than tripled our staff of digital literacy consultants. We launched classroom visits, where we assisted in 23 classes. We had 230 student visits to DigiSpace. We helped more Read More …
Through ePortfolio, UNE is encouraging students to build a digital home for their academic (and other) digital work. The Domain of One’s Own scholarship provides the opportunity for interested students to extend the initiative and take ownership in building and maintaining their own domain. Through a Domain of One’s Own award, recipients will be eligible Read More …
The concept of the Domain of Own One’s alludes to Virginia Woolf’s extended essay “A Room of One’s Own.” Woolf, a twentieth-century writer, argued that women writers needed a physical and intellectual space as well as funding to begin contributing to the male-dominated area of composing and deconstructing literature. Jim Groom, working from Gardner Campbell’s Read More …
Students sometimes feel that their course work is unrelated to their major area of study, or they do not see the relevance of a certain skill set when, at first glance, it seems unnecessary for their professional career path. ePortfolio can help by creating an opportunity for students to recognize not only the growth of Read More …
As you develop your ePortfolio, you might be interested to know a little more about WordPress. WordPress has 59% of market share for all CMSs (Content Management Systems). CMSs are software that allow users to create, manage, and organize digital media. About 19.5 million sites are WordPress sites, which is estimated to be 25%-30% of Internet Read More …
