Announcements

In advance of our new website launch next week, the Life in Quarantine project at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University is THRILLED to announce a new partnership with Louisiana’s incredible NoiseFilter podcast!

Together we are working to select and adapt content from our quarantine life archive to this most exciting format, and we are delighted to share the first results with you all!

Due to uncertainty surrounding future funding for this project, the Poetic Media Lab will no longer perform technical upkeep on the most recent version of Lacuna available (2.4.1), which may impact site functionality and stability. For the same reason we are no longer able to maintain Lacuna websites for other institutions or to support new Lacuna courses at the moment. This decision affects all users, including past as well as current recipients of Stanford Global Studies's EPIC Community College Fellowships.

Many have asked for it, now it's here. Lacuna v2.3 supports PDF annotation! When creating a new document, you can upload PDFs instead of text and your students can now annotate anywhere on the PDF. You can even include images in the PDF. Thanks go out to Cody Leff for adding this exciting new feature.

In collaboration with Julia Azar Rubin, an MA student at the Graduate School of Education, Poetic Media Lab is developing a platform that harnesses Lacuna's annotation and data visualization tools to allow instructors to give students feedback on their writing more easily. Instead of feedback in the margins of papers that can get lost or misplaced and never looked at again, Lacuna for Writing keeps all of a student's feedback in one place, available at a glance, by allowing instructors to annotate their students' work and then categorize these annotations according to types of feedback.