CUNY Academic Commons | Walter Dufresne | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/walterdufresne/activity/ Activity feed for Walter Dufresne. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1d6686f0f90572ef2d0c33e8bab37ae2 Walter Dufresne's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/837835/ Sun, 17 Apr 2022 02:59:41 -0400 84205e45bbcd9bdefb196742c4528f38 Walter Dufresne commented on the post, Transforming TEI for the Web, on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2019/04/24/transforming-tei-for-the-web-2/#comment-2191 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:46:57 -0400 Thanks for addressing the difficult problem of making hand-written and hand-emended manuscripts available as accurate digital texts. Fwiw, the Portuguese Republic is slowly transcribing several centuries of its […]

]]> 02e89492f8b41f04900031ba551f40c3 Walter Dufresne's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/494856/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:30:10 -0500 df405205dc1a2d0c896f5dc0ec00b4d2 Walter Dufresne's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431558/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:26:45 -0400 017b649554b875b01d68f44b9cb91cab Walter Dufresne joined the group Computer Systems Technology Colloquium https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/406382/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:12:40 -0400 e2fa7be49998801846eefefa5a5a4863 Walter Dufresne commented on the post, Making It Visual, on the site GC Digital Fellows http://digitalfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/10/14/making-it-visual/#comment-5146 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:59:15 -0400 If you haven’t had the chance, the retired statistician Edward Tufte’s one-day course on “Presenting Data and Information” is tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, 16 October (yet again) in New York […]

]]> 2885c272f7fa732dc63488cfd2ea880d Walter Dufresne replied to the forum topic Dropbox Great Space Race in the group CUNY Technology Group http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-technology-group/forum/topic/dropbox-great-space-race/?topic_page=1#post-10796 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:50:23 -0400 My students have had much good luck with Dropbox. Among other things, when logged into a Guest Account on a classroom Mac, they can temporarily install DropBox in their “Guest Space” and use its file […]

]]> 5bb0c09295ac7f3b868c78f025a16791 Walter Dufresne commented on the post, Frankenbook, on the site The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/frankenbook/#comment-18 Sun, 06 May 2012 13:14:39 -0400 Hooray for the well-thumbed paperback! That “the iPads were shared devices” and only available during class time is a dreadful handicap and — for now — probably common.

]]> bdc8e2b04ab74b7ab6c39792a9a5d9f2 Walter Dufresne commented on the post, Pre Perigree Moon Over NYC, on the site Adam's Antics http://adam.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/05/pre-perigree-moon-over-nyc-5512-new-york-city-ny-usa/#comment-2 Sun, 06 May 2012 12:49:39 -0400 Saturday’s moonrise was terrific: vivid, large, warm, and wonderful in the clear twilight sky. Thanks.

]]> d22c4745cd82833a0b94b06598cb375a Walter Dufresne posted on the forum topic Prospective Roundtable on Crowdsourcing in the Classroom in the group CUNY Technology Group http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-committee-on-academic-technology/forum/topic/prospective-roundtable-on-crowdsourcing-in-the-classroom/#post-266 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:14:32 -0400 Pardon my digression: one useful history and definition of crowdsourcing is (of course) crowdsourced at the redoubtable wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing I mention this because some number of self-selecting contributors have built and revised this single wikipedia entry more than five-hundred times in the last four years.…[Read more]

]]> d59795699e78a8852faaed6a83aa31ab Walter Dufresne commented on the post, , on the site Testing the blogs http://gcmac.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/04/20/steve-jobs-%e2%80%9cfolks-who-want-porn-can-buy-an-android-phone%e2%80%9d/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:31:00 -0400 Walter Dufresne commented on the blog post Steve Jobs: “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” %s

Are you British? As owner of half a dozen gripping vises (in my Connecticut barn and woodshop), and possessor of two gripping vices (centered around my New York liquor cabinet and larder), I’m reluctant to chastise Jobs’s spelling or use err…

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]]> 903b13e00e843cbd300c860419698de5 Walter Dufresne joined the group CUNY Technology Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/6817/ Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:58:03 -0500 Walter Dufresne joined the group CUNY Technology Group %s

]]> 7da91e9a70977521dee848eda47a23f1 Walter Dufresne wrote on Monica Berger's wire https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/4824/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:33:13 -0400 Walter Dufresne wrote on Monica Berger’s wire:

I like this Commons because it gave me a lead on a small lab full of ridiculously-robust Macs at Mina Rees Library: no more waiting around while editing photographs!

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]]> 9bf0c72a09664aa24eabd5bf0c82f3be Walter Dufresne updated the "Profile" information on their profile https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/2777/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:13:03 -0400 Walter Dufresne updated the “Profile” information on their profile 16 years, 9 months ago

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