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Category: Educational Technology News

JMU Libraries in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted May 6, 2022

JMU Libraries was included in “The Library of the Future: How the heart of the campus is transforming,” a new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Accessible to anyone with a JMU eID login and password, the special report […]

Canvas Studio: JMU’s New Platform for Sharing Instructional Videos

Posted May 2, 2022

You can now use Canvas Studio, JMU’s new platform for recording, storing, and sharing instructional media. It is currently available to all JMU faculty, staff, and students who have a Canvas account, and will fully replace Techsmith Knowmia in July. […]

A Celebration of Immigrant Stories: The Harrisonburg 360 Podcast

Posted April 13, 2022

All JMU and Harrisonburg community members are invited to an online event celebrating local immigrant storytelling, specifically the stories featured in the Harrisonburg 360 Podcast. Created by students in Dr. Allison Fagan’s English class at JMU, this podcast ethically elevates the […]

Digital Archive Partnership in the News

Posted April 4, 2022

Our partnership with the JMU History Department and Rockingham County Circuit Court to digitize thousands of courthouse records was covered by the Daily News Record, WHSV-TV3, NBC29, and The Harrisonburg Citizen.  Learn more about the Histories Along the Blue Ridge […]

Knowmia ends soon: Changes to video storage starting May 20

Posted March 21, 2022

You may have been using Techsmith Knowmia, a video platform for recording and sharing lectures online. Knowmia is being discontinued by the vendor on July 29, 2022.   Canvas Studio is JMU’s new platform for recording, storing, and sharing instructional media. […]

Intro to AudiAnnotate: New Workshop for Faculty and Staff

Posted March 16, 2022

All JMU faculty and staff are invited to join Intro to AudiAnnotate: A Tool for Transcribing and Annotating Audiovisual Content. You’ll get an overview of how JMU Libraries and Furious Flower are using AudiAnnotate, a project aimed at libraries, archives, […]

New Workshop: Effective Video for Learning

Posted February 25, 2022

Instructional videos are a powerful tool to enhance learning, both in-person and online. They can sometimes lose their effectiveness in teaching due to common mistakes. Take an in-person or Zoom workshop that will address all the areas to think about […]

Survey Tools at JMU

Posted February 9, 2022

JMU currently has two survey tools—Qualtrics and QuestionPro—to meet the research and general survey needs of its faculty and staff. In Fall 2021, JMU decided to continue the contract with Qualtrics on an ongoing basis. Recognizing the investment that many […]

Feature Friday: Video Production for Good – A Student Success Story

Posted February 4, 2022

As a JMU student, Sean Khuon-Paige (‘19) helped faculty to make videos as part of the Media Production Services (MPS) team in JMU Libraries. Now a freelance videographer in Portland, Oregon, he has worked on video projects for Netflix, Nike, […]

Feature Friday: From Deteriorating to Digital – A Graduate Student Success Story

Posted January 28, 2022

For History alumna Kayla Heslin (‘20M), working on her master’s thesis was not just an opportunity for hands-on archival work that eventually helped her to land a position as Digital Collections Coordinator at University of Pittsburgh. It was also an […]