Events By Tag: “Digital Exploration Center”

  • Getting STARted: Sharing Your Research in STARS

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    This workshop introduces STARS, UCF's institutional repository, and explains how it can increase the visibility and impact of your work. We'll walk through what kinds of materials you can deposit, such as articles, presentations, datasets, and creative works, and we’ll show you how the submission process works from start to finish. Whether you're new to open access or just new …

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  • Know Your Rights: Copyright & Your Research in STARS

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    Before you deposit your work, it helps to understand who owns it and what you can do with it. This workshop covers the copyright questions researchers most often face when sharing through an institutional repository: What rights do you retain after publishing? Can you deposit a version of a journal article? How do co-authorship and funding requirements affect your options? …

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  • Podcast Workshop Series: Starting your own Podcast

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    This workshop dives into the creative elements of starting a podcast. This will teach you how to plan, ideate, organize, and ultimately begin recording your very own podcast. In addition, you will learn how to utilize podcasts for your academic, professional, or personal goals.

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  • Techwear and Creative Making Workshop

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    How does the digital impact the clothes we wear and the objects we carry daily? Examine the past, present, and future of wearable technology, learn about maker movements, and take part in a project to build a custom wearable USB drive that you can keep.

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  • Workshop: Building Interactive Timelines and Data-Driven Narratives

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    Learn how to create interactive digital stories using the free tools TimelineJS and StorylineJS. In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore strategies for presenting information through timelines and data-driven narratives while building their own projects. These tools can be used to communicate research, showcase historical events, document projects, and create engaging stories for a variety of academic and professional purposes. …

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  • Podcast Workshop Series: Using the Hitt Maker Studio

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    This workshop will give you hands-on instruction on how to use the UCF Library's Hitt Maker Podcast Studio to record video and audio podcasts. You will learn how to use the technologies and software, as well as basic camera and lighting techniques to create a stylized finished product.

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  • Digital Presence Workshop

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    In this hands-on workshop, participants will develop and refine a CV, and build a personal web site for free using Github. No programming experience required.

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  • Uploadathon Upload Your Work: A Hands-On STARS Submission Session

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    Bring your work and leave with it in STARS. This hands-on session gives you dedicated time and one-on-one support to submit your research to the repository. Whether you have a published article, a conference presentation, dataset, or any other scholarly work ready to go, our team will be on hand to walk you through the process, answer your questions, and …

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  • Podcast Workshop Series: Editing and Publishing your Podcast

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    This workshop is designed to give users who already have a basic or intermediate understanding of how to create a podcast in the Hitt Maker studio a hands-on training for editing their video or audio projects, and will also go into detail on how to publish your podcasts as well as what kinds of platforms and solutions are available.

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  • The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates

    John C. Hitt Library Digital Exploration Center: Room 425

    AI is changing faster than the law can keep up. This session breaks down what's happening at the intersection of copyright and artificial intelligence, including ongoing court battles over AI training data, recent decisions clarifying what can (and can't) be protected under copyright law, and new policy efforts pushing for greater transparency from AI companies. Whether you're using AI tools …

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