Sense & Scale

A site to explore cultures, cities, and computing at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.

Contact: see syllabi

Month: November 2023

  • This University of Maryland Libraries’ Research Guide on Citation Justice links to a Github repository of Python code to “probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries.” Completing all the steps below can earn you additional points on your final grade; please see this semester’s…

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  • Announcements Agenda Assignments Required: Go through your peers comments to revise/update your paper. We’ll do Round #2 of peer review next week, in different groups. Required: Add relevant a news item to D&T News Items 2023. Optional: Complete the Timed Exercise for 11/29, due Saturday night. For this exercise, you’ll need…

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  • Announcements Citation Justice (related to this recent NYU Libraries course). Reviewing this research guide will help with the “balance of voices” Cultural Competence line item in the final grade sheet. Class on Wednesday (11/29) will be on Zoom. I’ll put the Zoom link on Brightspace after class. You don’t have…

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  • Announcements New items in Reading/Watching/Listening: Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) – also added to the D&T menu Additional notes: Agenda Assignment

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  • Final Deadlines Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) Additional notes:

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  • Computer Science Students worked with the following in previous semesters of PEP Comp Sci: 3D Animation Recommended free software: Blender, which does not require web connectivity to use. Blender is very popular with young animators today. Some (all?) PEP lab computers already have Microsoft 3D Viewer, but this software can…

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  • Announcements New resource in Reading/Listening/Watching: Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Agenda Assignment

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  • Announcements Alluded to in the Introduction to Dominance by Design: the poem “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. Unless you prefer otherwise, Session #22 will be the final in-class Timed Exercise. They will be optional homework for Sessions #23-27. PLEASE NOTE: you must complete at least 22 exercises! Agenda Assignment

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