Tag Archives: Google

Gadget Day Memories

Posted on June 1, 2013 by

Our spring Gadget Day was just about a month back. We’re excited to announce our playlist of edited videos and Storify. This was our first fully successful attempt recording and web-streaming Gadget Day – so here is a shout out … Continue reading →

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Doing effective research with databases

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Yuting Wang has been a graduate student intern with us at the Weigle Information Commons for the past year. In the post below, she reflects on her research experiences at Penn as she completes her Masters of Education in Teaching English … Continue reading →

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Join us for Gadget Day on Friday, April 26

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

Register now for our spring Gadget Day! We collected gadget ideas from around campus this spring. It will be a fast-paced day with lots of devices to explore. Caitlin Shanley will start the day with SlideShark, an app that controls your … Continue reading →

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2013 Tech Resolutions

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

Happy new year! We’re sure you have a few resolutions of your own in this month of good intentions (my favorite one I’ve heard so far is “stop reading the comments“), but David Toccafondi and I thought we’d share a … Continue reading →

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Google Search by Image

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Inspired by WIC librarian Caitlin Shanley’s post about Google Power Searchers, I thought I’d share some pointers on image searching that I’ve learned recently. While working on image copyright for Penn’s offerings on Coursera.org—a platform for free online classes from … Continue reading →

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Demystifying the Digital Humanities

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

As a new intern here at WIC, I would like to dedicate my first blog post to an issue that has both piqued my academic interest and that has, quite frankly, often baffled me thus far in my graduate studies: … Continue reading →

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I’m a Power Searcher!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Over the past two weeks, I participated in the Power Searching with Google course (I was hoping to pose with a comically oversized version of my certificate, ala the Publishers Clearing House, but I haven’t received it yet!). This free … Continue reading →

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Join us for Google Education On Air

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

This Wednesday (May 2nd) Google will offer a free online educational technology conference: Google Education On Air! Join us in Meyerson Conference Room on the second floor of Van Pelt Library from 12 – 5 pm. You can  watch a … Continue reading →

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YouTube on Top

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Have you seen that new show on TV lately? No? Me neither. A new Freemake.com infographic spells out what many of us have suspected for awhile: YouTube is King. (Note: Freemake produces software that converts videos for YouTube.) Among the … Continue reading →

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Cloudy, With a Chance of Internet

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Cloud computing has been an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. Services like Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Docs are seeing more and more use, and Apple is getting in on it too, announcing iCloud as one … Continue reading →

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