This Spring, the Bertrand Library launched a new public-facing space dedicated to digital collaboration, innovation, teaching, and research. This new space, named the Digital Scholarship Center (DSC), provides a comfortable and accessible space where members of the Bucknell community canRead More
Archives for March 2014
Finding My Professor’s GradeMark Comments
Bucknell integrates TurnItIn’s "originality checking" service into our Moodle installation. If a faculty member adds a "TurnItIn Assignment" to a course, student submissions to that assignment are checked against TurnItIn’s database of previously submitted work and of documents submitted toRead More
Innovative Uses of 3D Printers
As we have mentioned in past posts (for example, ITEC’s 3D Printer and Replicator 2 Orientation ), ITEC owns a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. The MakerBot Replicator 2 turns three-dimensional designs into actual physical objects, composed of plastic filamentRead More
An Assessment Primer – the Black Box Metaphor
In science and math, a "black box" problem is one in which you can see the inputs and the outputs from a closed system, but you do not know what is going on inside the system. You can infer whatRead More
Video Concepts
Professor Cheville’s Elec 390: Fundamentals of Electromagnetics students created 2 minute Video Concepts explaining various Electromagnetic formulas. These projects require that they not only master the concepts, but are able to teach them to others.