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Category: Tech Tools

Includes demos and descriptions of tech tools helpful for TPS work

Events & Opportunities / Teaching Tools / Tech Tools

TPS Tech Tools Sandbox Sessions

Keep visiting this page for updates on what tools we’ll be practicing with next: https://bitly.com/TPSSANDBOX What’s a TPS Sandbox session? With the help of a session facilitator, we’re exploring some …

Tech Tools / Unconferences

Tech Tool Demos from the 2020 Virtual Unconference

Adobe Spark, with Blake Spitz (Archivist, Special Collections & University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries) Canva for Instruction, with Renee Romero and Hannah Sutherland (UCLA Library) StoryMapJS, with Kayla Harris (Librarian …

Community Calls / Events & Opportunities / Tech Tools

Tools for Virtual TPS Work (TPS Community Call – May 28, 2020)

Topic: Tools for Virtual TPS Work: 10-minute demos of instructional tools applied to special collections and archives settings. – TinyScanner (Miranda Rectenwald, Curator of Local History at Washington University)– Perusall …

Community Calls / Events & Opportunities / Tech Tools

Teaching Tools Showcase (TPS Community Call – April 30, 2020)

Topic: Teaching Tools Showcase. A pecha-kucha-like lighting round of presentations on tools to apply to instruction during this time, followed by a group discussion of these tools and more. Interactive …

Community Calls / Events & Opportunities / Tech Tools

Using Zoom for Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS Community Call – April 9, 2020)

Using Zoom for Teaching with Primary Sources Danielle Nista, Reference Associate at NYU Special Collections shares her experiences adapting an in-person archival instruction session to an online learning experience. She …

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