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Today’s AUB

Digitizing Campus and the AUB community

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AUB

You can be back on campus with just a click:

• AUB Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVN-eeCO4nY&feature=channel_page

• AUB's educational YouTube channel, AUBatLebanonwww.youtube.com/AUBatLebanon

was launched in February 2008. The channel features videotaped lectures and other presentations uploaded at the request of the AUB faculty and administrators. AUB's YouTube channel can be accessed from any location in the world.

• Virtual Tours of AUB

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Back at School

• You can also get a taste of life at AUB again by viewing lectures, teaching sessions and make virtual visits to various departments!

Lots Here:• The Digital Repository of the Academic Computing

Center (ACC DR) of the American University of Beirut

ACC created this project to foster innovation in education and to enable collaboration, communication, and free sharing of information within the AUB community and the world. The material can be accessed directly from the DR or through Moodle.

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Back at School

• The ACC DR includes:

• ACC Digital MaterialTeaching and learning material in various formats such as simulations, videos, audios.

• Other AUB Digital CollectionsList of digital collections from the University Libraries, SAAB Medical Library.

• External Digital RepositoriesList of external repositories of courseware, learning objects, images.

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AUB Departments

• Life at AUBhttp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D860951F3ED11149

• AUB Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4QVSssBLSs

• AUB Department on Architecture and Designhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34D2Yal634w

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AUB’s Good Work

Find it all on-line!Examples:• IBSAR: Plant your land with Native trees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0U8NNTLcEY&feature=channel_page

This video was produced by students from AUB's Design course [stop-motion animation] for ibsar's 'Seeds of Hope, Trees for Tomorrow' campaign

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Examples (cont’d)

• Baby Nour's Story; The Brave Heart Fund's AlJazeera Feature Storyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMyY2oxfn0

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Faculty in the News

Find and view online!• FHS Outreach: faculty members on the TV show

oAelati twice a month.

• Obama Calls For U.S., Muslims To Work TogetherRami Khouri on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104924816

• Faculty blog!Rami Zurayk"Land and People

http://landandpeople.blogspot.com/2009/09/boycott-meat.html

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Faculty in the News

Some Examples

• FEA distinguished alum K. Sakallahhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnHndcZE90

• Bassam Jalgha . ArabianBusiness.com voted named him one of this yearTs o30 under 30 as a one of othe next generation of arab leaders.Bassam recently won the oStars of Science competition.http://www.scientificblogging.com/newswire/bassam_jalgha_lebanon_wins_stars_science

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AUB Online Community

http://www.aub.edu/alumni

• Your resource for staying connected to each other thru the online directory

• Chapter resource for easy build out and maintenance of chapter pages– DC Chapter Sample site: www.waaaub.org/dcchapter

– NY Metropolitan Chapter Sample Site: www.waaaub.org/nymet

• Post and look for jobs worldwide

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AUB Online Community

AUB Facebook Application