Tag: Education
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BLITZ
BLITZ is the new smart app that brings simplicity, customization, and strong cross-platform functionality. This app allows users to take pictures, use screenshots, written notes, and translate them into editable text. Photo to text is what makes this possible. In the app, the cloud’s cross-platform connection capabilities are used to bring the photos from a…
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Juxtapose
Simply navigating to many local news websites prompts a barrage of pop-up ads, autoplaying videos and an unorganized assortment of content. While local news is incredibly important for informing communities, many outlets do not have an optimal digital presence due to a lack of resources as the media landscape continues to shift. Local newsrooms have…
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Georgia Grasslands Initiative
Once Georgia was filled with beautiful and flourishing grasslands. They provided homes and habitats for so many different species that depended on them for survival. Now, due to invasive species and other harmful subjects, the once vast grasslands that had stretched across the entire top half of the state have been diminished to 13 small…
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Georgia Gullah Geechee Marketplace
The Gullah Geechee is an African-American community descended from enslaved peoples who continue to reside along the Southeast coastline of the continental United States. This coastline community has a rich and intricate culture that has been passed down through many generations and has endured many hardships. Their communities house an abundance of knowledge relevant to…
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Historical Clothing and Textiles Collection
The HCTC is an educational resource that provides unique learning experiences for students at UGA. Not only is it used for classroom demonstration, it helps teach students about museum practices, and serves as a research tool. From the digitalized metadata, to the physical garments, there is so much history to be learned through the clothing…
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UGA Desegregation
History can be made to seem farther away than it really is, particularly the history of racial discrimination against African Americans in the United States. Disheartening events such as the University of Georgia ruling against two African American students attending the school because of the color of their skin could seem like an archaic notion.…
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Stay or Leave
The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia has collaborated with the Georgia Commission on Family Violence to create an online virtual simulation to replace in-person domestic violence mediation training for lawyers, conflict mediators and anyone who can benefit from learning more about domestic violence. The simulation guides users through an…
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EJ’s Game Plan
It’s a simple concept: take the lecture where a professor brings in an industry pro for class questioning, and make it virtual, accessible, and free to all. EJ’s Game Plan came from unpleasant circumstances, but is now changing how anyone can get information about working in Sports Media. Over the Summer of 2020, Ernie Johnson…
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UGAr
As one of the premier universities in the United States, the University of Georgia encompasses a deep history from landmarks such as North campus’ Arch, which stands for wisdom, justice and moderation to the nostalgic lands between the hedges in Sanford Stadium. This expansive history has gradually formed into rich traditions that shape the lives…
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EraScope
EraScope is a prototype application that aims to re-contextualize history using augmented reality. The application, made in collaboration with Atlanta-based Marketing firm Moxie, allows the user to experience the unknown history of everyday locations or monuments in a visually interesting way. Using the augmented reality functionality, the user has two ways to experience the history…