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Tech Spotlight: Kanopy Streaming

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Kanopy is an online streaming video service that provides a wide collection of films, documentaries, and foreign language videos in a variety of academic subjects. Subjects include the social sciences, the arts, education, business, health, global studies and languages, sciences, and

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Yewno

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Yewno is a next gen discovery system that works with the full text of libraries’ licensed content to return sophisticated results based on ideas rather than metadata and keywords. The system draws on a huge corpus of materials drawn from

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Visible Body 3D Anatomy Online

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Visible Body has traditionally been a desktop application that allows students to view and manipulate different parts of the human anatomy to help them focus on specific organ systems and learn at their own pace. Recently, Visible Body has gone

Posted in Emerging Technology, Health Sciences Library, Library Technology, Mobile Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Fabula Maps

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Fabula Maps is a digital humanities teaching tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. The action of the map is similar to Storymap JS, but Fabula is aimed at users who might need a technology assist and more

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Tableau

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Tableau is a data visualization and sharing tool that makes it easy to create meaningful charts and stories around all kinds of data. The tool, which is available in both free and paid versions, has a simple drag-and-drop organization that

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: American Film Scripts Online

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American Film Scripts Online contains over 1,009 scripts by 1,062 authors. Many of these scripts show the facsimile images of the original scripts that allow users to view notes and directions from the scene. The scripts are also indexed to

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: 60 Minutes 1997-2014

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Did you know that 60 Minutes is the longest continuously running American network primetime show? Stony Brook students, faculty, and staff now have access to every episode of 60 minutes that aired between 1997-2014. This collection covers over 350 hours

Posted in Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Kahoot

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Kahoot is a clicker software that helps teachers get better engagement and data from their students. Instructors are able to create an interactive presentation that has points of engagement that quiz students in real time about the content they are

Posted in Library Technology

Tech Spotlight: BrowZine

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BrowZine is a mobile and web app that makes keeping up with scholarly content as easy as reading a newspaper or magazine. The app works by providing subscription journal content in a friendly interface. The user can customize their bookshelf

Posted in Library Technology, Mobile Technology

New Game, Contests For International Games Day 2015!

While you’ve been working hard all year earning credits for your degree, we’ve been working hard all year to make your learning process a little more fun.  And it’s exhausting – in a good way.  ALA’s International Games Day is

Posted in Events, Game Studies, Library Outreach, Library Technology, Melville Library