CITations
October 23, 2009
No. 250
CITations is a report featuring information technology-related news of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic service of the ITS Teaching and Learning division.
Digital Storytelling Event
November IAIG Meeting
November Webmasters Meeting
Professional Reputation Management Workshop
Discipline-Related Puzzles Needed
October CTC Tech Brief
CFE Workshops
OASIS Workshops
ITS LearnIT Workshops
2009 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations
DIGITAL STORYTELLING EVENT
The entertainment industry knows what it takes to design compelling games and generate quality digital stories. In a word, it is collaboration. The next Games4Learning Initiative event, "Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Skills," will feature Will Bosley, manager of the Beasley Center. Bosley will discuss how academia can follow industry in designing courses to focus on collaboration skills in the area of game design and digital storytelling.
When: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, Toy Lounge
To register for the event, go to http://tinyurl.com/itstl102709-unc-edu
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Excellence (http://cfe.unc.edu).
NOVEMBER IAIG MEETING
The topic for the November Instructional Applications Interest Group is "IAIG in Transition." In the next couple of months, the IAIG will change its sponsorship from ITS Teaching and Learning to the Center for Faculty Excellence. This move provides us with an opportunity to consider changes and improvements for the group. Please join us to share your ideas for the future of the group.
When: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Where: Conference Room 08F, Peabody Hall
Membership in the group is open to all interested University staff. For more information go to the IAIG website at http://its.unc.edu/TeachingAndLearning/AOE/IAIG/index.htm.
-- Suzanne Cadwell & Carolyn Kotlas, IAIG Facilitators
ITS Teaching and Learning
NOVEMBER WEBMASTERS MEETING
The UNC Webmasters November meeting will feature Richard Powell's presentation "Designing Outside the Browser," a talk he gave to the Refresh the Triangle group. Powell is a freelance web designer working in Chapel Hill. Here is a description of the talk: "As designers, we're constantly looking around for sources of inspiration and influence. Spending all day working on the web, it can be tempting to limit one's gaze to other websites. While many of the challenges we face on the web are unique, in this talk, we'll look beyond the browser window; at the techniques designers in other disciplines have used to solve their unique design problems and how we can apply those lessons to our own work on the web." For more information about Refresh the Triangle, go to http://refreshthetriangle.org/.
When: 2:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5, 2009
Where: Graduate Student Center, 211 W. Cameron Ave.
UNC Webmasters meets monthly to discuss issues that affect webmasters across campus. Any UNC-Chapel Hill faculty or staff member interested in participating can attend the meeting and/or join the listserv. For more information go to the Webmasters website at http://webmasters.unc.edu/.
To join the Webmasters mailing list go to http://mail.unc.edu/lists/read/subscribe?name=webmasters.
-- Billy Hylton, Senior Web Producer
ITS Web Services
email: billy_hylton@unc.edu
tel: 445-9338
PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Books and articles you've written, presentations you've made, your participation in meetings: these are some of the things professional reputations have been built around in the past. How has the Internet changed your ability to know your own professional reputation and what can you do to identify and manage the information about you that might be harming your reputation? Are there ways you can use positive aspects of the Internet to strengthen your reputation? How can you mitigate negative references to you? How do you find references to yourself to even start the process? How can you help your students start monitoring their own reputations early in their careers?
Jim Porto is director of the Executive Master's Program and executive director of the Community Preparedness and Disaster Management Program in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. His current interests include helping faculty manage their reputations given the wealth of online information that is "out there." Join Porto and your colleagues to learn more.
When: 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Friday, November 6, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
To register, go to http://tinyurl.com/itstl110609-unc-edu
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Excellence (http://cfe.unc.edu).
DISCIPLINE-RELATED PUZZLES NEEDED
An alternate reality game (ARG) to be played on campus during the spring semester is being planned. For one of the activities in the game, the planners would like to add some discipline-specific puzzles. Items being requested from instructors include crossword puzzles, word searches, riddles, or other fun activities related to a course that college-aged students might be taking. To comply with copyright laws, only send something that can be copied and distributed, either on paper or in electronic format.
For more information on ARGs, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game and http://www.argn.com/.
For more information about the campus ARG project or to submit materials, contact:
Elizabeth A. Evans, Information Technology Services
email: uevans@email.unc.edu
tel: 843-0132
OCTOBER CTC TECH BRIEF
The October "CTC Tech Brief" discusses WS-Security. Web Services Security (WS-Security) is a set of related specifications for handling message integrity and privacy of communications for web services applications. WS-Security is implemented as extensions to SOAP messaging. View the full Tech Brief at http://ctc.unc.edu/images/stories/200910_ws_security.pdf.
"CTC Tech Briefs" are reviews of critical issues in information technology and data communications architecture. They are published monthly via the Carolina Technology Consultants (CTC) email list and website. Back issues are available at http://ctc.unc.edu/tech-briefs/. CTC is a cooperative organization of professional computer support providers at UNC-Chapel Hill. The CTC is a grassroots based organization formed as a forum for IT professionals at Carolina. For more information about the CTC, go to http://ctc.unc.edu/.
-- Tyler R. Johnson, CTC Board
ITS Communication Technologies Engineering
email: trjohns1@email.unc.edu
CFE WORKSHOPS
The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) invites you to join us for our fall 2009 events. We offer workshops throughout the semester, addressing a wide variety of teaching topics. Workshops coming up in November and December include:
Teaching Portfolios
November 5
Two available sessions: 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Overcoming Teaching Anxiety
November 9
Two available sessions: 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m.
Student Learning Outcomes
November 10
Two available sessions: 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Creating a Dynamic Syllabus
November 11
Two available sessions: 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m.
Lesson Planning
November 12
Two available sessions: 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Creating Effective Assignments
November 13
Two available sessions: 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m.
Developing and Evaluating Student Presentations
December 10
Creating Writing Assignments That Promote Better Student Papers
December 11
For details and to register, go to http://cfe.unc.edu/events.html.
For more information about other Center activities and services, go to http://cfe.unc.edu/.
OASIS WORKSHOPS
The College of Arts and Sciences' OASIS group offers individual, one-on-one consultations as well as workshops on a variety of technical topics. For more information on the OASIS training services and the workshops listed below and to register, go to http://oasis.unc.edu/training/.
Basic Video Editing (Final Cut)
October 28
Tips, Tricks, and Technology to Help You Successfully Manage your Time
October 29
Beginning Plone - Introduction to Content
November 9
Intermediate Plone - Collections & Forms
November 9
Plone for Administrators - Portlets, Rules, Groups & Users
November 9
Intro to Mac OS X
November 12
Set up your Personal/Family Blog
November 12
Create Simple Websites: Faculty
November 16
Create Simple Websites: Graduate Students
November 17
Intro to Mac OS X Applications
November 19
Intro to Mac OS X Troubleshooting
December 3
ITS LEARNIT WORKSHOPS
There are still spaces available in the following LearnIT workshops. To read a workshop description or to register for any of these workshops, go to http://learnit.unc.edu/workshops. For links to other campus training opportunities, go to the LearnIT website.
If multiple dates are listed, the workshop is offered on each of those dates.
Introduction to Topsail, a Research Computing Server
October 26
Games4Learning: Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Skills
October 27
Introduction to Blackboard Grade Center
October 28
Scientific Computing: Introduction to Scientific Computing
October 29
Matlab: Introduction
November 5
Scientific Computing: Gaussian and GaussView
November 5
Professional Reputation Management
November 6
Scientific Computing: Introduction to Computational Chemistry
November 12
Games4Learning Discussion: Games as an Interactive Classroom Technique
November 18
Introduction to Emerald, a Research Computing Server
December 1
2009 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
January 9 & 23
February 6 & 20
March 6 & 20
April 3 & 17
May 8 & 22
June 5 & 19
July 10 & 24
August 7 & 21
September 11 & 25
October 9 & 23
November 6 & 20
December 4
CITations welcomes announcements from all UNC-Chapel Hill campus organizations involved in instructional and research technology. To have an announcement considered for publication in CITations, send email to Carolyn Kotlas, kotlas@email.unc.edu, or call 962-9287. The deadline for submissions is 11:00 a.m. the day before the publication date.
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