LIZA / Grace
LIZA is an online tool for practicing discourse between a live instructor and a simulated 3D student that provides a risk-free environment to hone specific pedagogical practices for classroom teachers. Teaching with Grace is based on LIZA and is funded by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Harvard University.
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The Agility Game
A web-based game that helps classroom teachers develop creative and complex problem solving skills, and nurture feelings of joy, rigor, freedom, and love for learning in a fun and collaborative envirnonment
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VisualEyes
A web-based authoring tool to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. VisualEyes enables humanities scholars to present selected primary source materials and research findings while encouraging active inquiry and hands-on learning among general and targeted audiences.
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MovingPicture
MovingPicture is a popular plugin for Avid nonlinear video editors that enables documentary and industrial filmmakers to pan and zoom on high-resolution image ala "Ken Burns." It takes high-resolution images and makes it easy to create pans and zoom moves directly from the Avid editor's timeline. It is used by all the major networks and by Ken Burns himself.
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PrimaryAccess
Helps students to combine text, audio and primary source images into compelling digital stories, with a simple movie-making process. Entirely Web-based.
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SCALE
The Student-Centered Adaptive Learning Environment is an interactive platform for delivering adaptive instruction online. It provides an instructional framework that guides the learner through the instructional content based on proven theories about how people learn effectively.
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èt•al
A people-centered approach to virtual meetings. Attendees easily chat and video with each other as they attend based virtual conferences, in a stylized venue.
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Bhutan Cultural Library
Highlights the rich resources of UVA's Tibetan and Himalayan Library as a front end to SHANTI's Mandala system to browse 1000's of images, texts, and videos.
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VisualEyes v1.0
Weaves images, maps, charts, video and data into interactive visualizations.
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MapScholar
Geospatial visualization that enables scholars to create digital “atlases” of historic maps.
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EMC2 editor
EMC2 was the first digital nonlinear editor, and won an EMMY award for Technical Achievement in 1993.
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