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Another installment from Team Digital Preservation
From the people who brought you Digital Preservation and the Nuclear Disaster, here is Digital Preservation and Aeroplane Disaster! While the scenario is a little hokey, the basic ideas it presents -- obsolescence and migration -- are critical topics when...
The Importance of Digital Preservation
The DCA has made amazing progress in the last few months on stabilizing and processing digital records. Here is a video out of Europe that explains why (in the extreme) it is important to take care of digital materials....
Entries from Humanities at Tufts tagged with 'video'
Video lectures on Greek history
A very happy discovery today: twenty four lectures, with course materials and syllabi, from Donald Kagan’s Introduction to Greek History course at Yale are available in several places online. I found it through Academic Earth, a new website which pulls...
Entries from Jumble tagged with 'video'
Time Flies
The School of Dental Medicine's vertical expansion took 18 months to complete, but now you can see a time-lapse video of the construction that whisks you through the process in just 1 minute and 38 seconds: Check out earlier coverage...
It's a Bird, It's a Plane...
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy 1996 graduate Bronwyn Schweigerdt has an alter ego. As Fiber Girl, she inspires people to incorporate more fiber in their diet and lets them know how to find it in tasty foods such...
Tufts Unplugged
On Oct. 23, several Tufts musicians performed their original work in the Granoff Music Center's Distler Hall as part of the "Tufts Unplugged" event, designed to show off the music scene on campus. Here, watch Dan Halpert (E'12) take the...
Romeo and Juliet, Retold. Sorta.
Check out freshman Matthias Maier's debut skit for the Tufts sketch comedy troupe Major: Undecided...
Kitchen Gardeners
Roger Doiron (F'93), founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, spoke at the Friedman School on Oct. 21 as part of the school's weekly seminar series. (Watch a video of his talk.) Food policy professor and blogger Parke Wilde posted about the...
Last Note on the Solar Decathlon
Congrats to Team Boston, the Tufts/BAC students who built an energy efficient home and took it all the way to the Mall in Washington D.C. to compete in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon. Their hard work got the attention...
Jumbonator!
On Oct. 3, the Tufts Robotics club competed in the fifth annual Franklin Cup robot competition, part of the Franklin Institute's World Space Week 2009 activities. Check out this video of the Jumbonator in action: From the Franklin Institute's press...
Parents Weekend
Despite the power disruption, Parents Weekend carried on. Check out these videos of the Hollywood-bound Beelzebubs singing some classics: The Traveling Treasure Trunk entertained the young and the young at heart: Office of Undergraduate Admissions blogger and Tufts sophomore Chase...
Snow? In October??
Much as we hate to admit it, it did happen. Yesterday, in fact. One enterprising student got some video footage of snow falling on the Hill. Just tilt your head to the left and take a look:...
Blog Action Day Against Climate Change
Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event uniting the world's bloggers around the issue of climate change with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Sustainability and environmental awareness are incredibly important issues here at...
Ay caramba!
Tufts achieved a cultural milestone last night by being referenced on the Simpsons. Someone (not us!) was kind/crafty enough to get a video clip of the mention up on YouTube the old fashioned way -- by pointing their video camera...
Bloggin' About Bhangra
If you haven't seen a Tufts Bhangra performance, you're missing out. Luckily, you can catch video from their performances on YouTube: Recently, they uploaded some rehearsal clips to give viewers a taste of some new moves:...
Fascinated by Silk
MAKE magazine interviewed School of Engineering Associate Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto as part of their Fascination series of interviews with notable scientists and technologists. Omenetto discusses his innovative work with silk proteins to create bio-compaible sensors. You can watch the video...
A Moment of Zen
The Fletcher School's Vali Nasr, a professor of international politics and expert on the Middle East and Islamic politics, appeared on The Daily Show last night to discuss his new book, Forces of Fortune. Watch the clip here or below:...
Live Curious
Tufts and the Boston Architectural College have joined forces as Team Boston to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. Twenty teams have built fully functional, energy-efficient solar-powered...
Scenes from Matriculation and Orientation
Our friends at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions video-recorded Dean Lee Coffin's remarks about the Class of 2013: Also, we found this cool video from the annual candlelighting ceremony -- a rite that the incoming class will revisit when they...
College: The Musical
College is such a unique time of life, and Tufts graduate Evan Wecksell has sought to capture it in his new musical, "College The Musical: A Musical About College." Here are some snippets from the production: Wecksell, a 2001 grad,...
So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star...
One of the coolest things about YouTube is how it enables people, especially musicians, to expose their talents to a limitless audience. Junior Molly Newman is one of these musicians, posting a cover of wizard rock band The Mudbloods' "The...
The Race is On
Tufts graduate and trustee Bill Thompson (A'74), currently comptroller of New York City, is running for mayor of the Big Apple. On his YouTube page, he has included an excerpt of the Commencement webcast from 2007, when his boss, New...
Now starring on YouTube
Guess who joined YouTube? Tufts Alumni Relations! Check out this awesome video, "Tufts: A Student Portrait."...
Incoming!
Before they come to Tufts, many incoming freshmen have already experienced a slice of college life through summer programs at institutions across the country and around the world. Here, incoming freshman Sabienne Brutus -- who participated in Princeton's Summer Journalism...
Video: Stephie Coplan Sings!
Senior Stephie Coplan records videos of herself singing and performing on the piano, tackling both original compositions and pop culture faves like the themes to "The Daily Show" and "The Office."...
Entries from Teaching with Technology @ Tufts tagged with 'video'
Friday's Pick: SciVee
The National Science Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have collaborated to support a site that is being billed as a "You Tube for Scientists" - SciVee. SciVee's goal is the "widespread dissemination and...
Friday's Pick: Google Video partners with Universities
A posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired News about Columbia University and Google caught my eye recently. "Nearly 100 hours of lectures, interviews, and courses from Columbia University will go up on Google Video, the Columbia University library...
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