Stanford University has been named one of the 10 Most Innovative Colleges for Foreign Language Study by TheBestColleges.org. Of particular interest, the article highlights Stanford's Digital Language Lab (DLL), which we all know falls under the auspices of SUL. The article states that the DLL is the go to resource for assessing students’ oral performance, providing resources for online oral assessments and Simulated Oral Proficiency Interviews (SOPIs).
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The New York Times just launched NYTimes.com Academic passes, which provide full access for 24 hours to the digital newspaper. You must have a Stanford email address to participate and there is a limit of 500 simultaneous users. The 24 hours begin at the time of claiming the pass and also allow access on most devices** to the NYTimes apps.
Data Management Services is excited to announce the launch of our new web site!
The primary goal of Data Services is to assist Stanford's researchers with the organization, management, and curation of research data. We want to help ensure that Stanford research data is preserved and accessible now and into the future. Our new site will help campus researchers create and carry out a data management strategy that will preserve their valuable research data for future sharing and reuse.
Featured Expert: John Blossom, President, Shore Communications
Some of the topics that will be covered are 1) Google’s Operating System, Chrome, and how it is shaping our view of computing, the Web, and our relationship to emerging forms of the Semantic Web; 2) The impact of mobility and choice of devices (Desktop (Chromebox), laptop (Chromebook), and tablet (Nexus 7); 3) Google’s On-Going Platform Integration (Google Plus, Knowledge Graph, Scholar, Play, YouTube, Gmail, and Drive); and 4) Anticipated new (Google Fiber) and soon-to-be-discontinued (iGoogle) services.
