CITations
September 25, 2009
No. 248
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.
Finding Funding Workshop
Professional Reputation Management Discussion
Games4learning Events
Flash Production Presentations
October IAIG Meeting
"The Crime of the (20th) Century"
GIS Workshops
September CTC Tech Brief
CFE Workshops
OASIS Workshops
HSL Fall Classes
School of Medicine Workshops
Blackboard Workshops
ITS LearnIT Workshops
2009 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations
FINDING FUNDING WORKSHOP
Want to use technology in innovative ways for teaching and learning, but feel stymied by a lack of funding? Join Elizabeth Allen from the GrantSource Library for "Finding Funding for Teaching and Learning Projects," a workshop on how to search for and identify funding sources that support the use of technology in teaching and learning. Elizabeth will take workshop participants through a tour of various funding resources available through the GrantSource Library and help participants shape customized searches and funding alerts tailored to your specific goals as they relate to using technology to enhance teaching and learning.
When: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Where: Room 247, Davis Library
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/092909-unc-edu.
PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION
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?
To discuss these and other questions, join Jim Porto, School of Public Health, for the workshop "Keeping Your Reputation in the Internet Age: Professional Reputation Management."
When: 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Friday, November 6, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/110609-unc-edu.
GAMES4LEARNING EVENTS
Several Games4Learning events sponsored by ITS Teaching and Learning and the Center for Faculty Excellence are scheduled for this semester:
"Playing to Learn: Game-Driven Comprehension of Complex Content"
This discussion will focus on the content of the article "Playing to Learn: Game-Driven Comprehension of Complex Content" (International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, 2007, pp 33-42). The article can be accessed online: http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE148.pdf.
When: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Thursday October 1, 2009
Where: Incubator Room, Hyde Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/100109-unc-edu.
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"Authentic Learning in Virtual Worlds"
Marilyn Lombardi, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Center at Duke University, will describe how learning scientists are currently using virtual world technologies to design and deploy a curriculum based on authentic learning principles. She will also discuss the obstacles that must be overcome before virtual worlds-based authentic learning becomes an affordable, routine part of the educational experience for the majority of students, along with the efforts currently underway to realize these large-scale ambitions.
When: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/100609-unc-edu.
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"Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Skills: Walking Hand in Hand"
The entertainment industry knows what it takes to design compelling games and generate quality digital stories. In a word, it is collaboration. Will Bosley, manager of the Beasley Center, 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
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/102709-unc-edu.
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"Games as an Interactive Classroom Technique"
This discussion will focus on an article "Games as an Interactive Classroom Technique: Perceptions of Corporate Trainers, College Instructors and Students." (International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, 2007, pp. 53-63). You can access the article at http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE157.pdf.
When: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Where: Incubator Room, Hyde Hall
For more information and to register, go to http://tinyurl.com/111809-unc-edu.
FLASH PRODUCTION PRESENTATIONS
The topic for the October UNC-Chapel Hill Webmasters meeting will feature several presentations by ITS Teaching and Learning staff on "Flash Production." Jason Whitley will discuss converting designs from Illustrator to Flash; Kerry O'Sullivan will cover Flash best practices; and Denis McDonough will talk about using SWFObject to embed Flash swf files into Web pages, so they play nice with different browsers and alternate images.
When: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Thursday, October 1, 2009
Where: Graduate Student Center, 211 W. Cameron Ave.
UNC-Chapel Hill 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
OCTOBER IAIG MEETING
The IAIG provides a professional networking venue for faculty and staff who work with instructional technologies.
Topic: To be announced on the IAIG listserve
When: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 7, 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
"THE CRIME OF THE (20TH) CENTURY"
ASIS&T@UNC is sponsoring a talk, "The Crime of the (20th) Century: How We Threw Away our Cultural Heritage for No Good Reason (and Whether Google Books will Bring it Back)," by Professor James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School.
When: 5:00 p.m. (reception), 5:30 p.m. (talk), Friday, October 9, 2009
Where: Gerrard Hall
All interested faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.
For more information, see http://ils.unc.edu/asist/boyle.html.
ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology) is the professional society for information science, fostering intellectual discourse and career development for information professionals worldwide. Our student chapter advances those goals at the local level, by sponsoring lectures, panel discussions, field trips, and other activities. We focus on areas such as database administration, information architecture, user-centered design, and web development.
GIS WORKSHOPS
The following Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workshops have been announced. No registration is required.
Introduction to ArcGIS Software II
This course will build on the introduction provided by ArcGIS I. Participants will gain hands-on experience joining tables, creating thematic maps, building queries and more.
When: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Where: Room 01, Manning Hall
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Working with Coordinate Systems in ArcGIS
This short course will provide an overview of map projections and how to work with them in ArcMap and ArcCatalog. Datum transformations will also be discussed. There will be a presentation followed by hands-on exercises. Students will gain a basic understanding of coordinate systems and will learn how to assign a coordinate system to a data layer, project data, and use ArcMap to decipher the coordinate system of data that has no metadata.
When: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Monday, October 19, 2009
Where: Room 01, Manning Hall
Additional information is available at http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/gis/short_courses_fall09.html.
-- Amanda Clarke Henley, GISP
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Davis Library
tel: 919-962-1151
email: amanda.henley@unc.edu
SEPTEMBER CTC TECH BRIEF
The September "CTC Tech Brief" discusses WS-Notification. WS-Notification is a set of OASIS standards defining a framework for modeling and signaling event-driven systems in a web services architecture. View the full Tech Brief at http://ctc.unc.edu/images/stories/200909_ws_notification.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, Treasurer, CTC
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 September and October include:
Teaching with Primary Sources
October 2
PowerPointed: Slide Design for Non-Designers
October 5
Syllabus and Course Development
co-sponsored with The Graduate School
October 7
PowerPointed: Real-Time Revisions
October 12
Teaching Portfolios
co-sponsored with The Graduate School
October 14
VoiceThread: Multimedia Projects Made Simple
October 19
Teaching with Images and Media
October 28
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/.
Photoshop Basics
September 29
Using PowerPoint to your best advantage
September 30
Web Programming With Python
October 1-2
Create Simple Websites: Graduate Students
October 5
Understanding and Using Digital Video
October 7
Tips and Tricks to Help you Manage Your Email
October 8
Intro to Mac OS X
October 8
Beginning Plone - Introduction to Content
October 13
Intermediate Plone - Collections & Forms
October 13
Plone for Administrators - Portlets, Rules, Groups & Users
October 13
Calendar, Tasks and other Productivity Technologies
October 15
Intro to Mac OS X Troubleshooting
October 15
Create Simple Personal Websites
October 16
HSL FALL CLASSES
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) is offering the following classes during the fall semester:
RefWorks
October 14
November 12
What is RefWorks and How Can it Help Me? An introductory hands-on workshop on using RefWorks to store citations downloaded from a variety of sources, and to format citations and bibliographies.
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EndNote
October 8
November 4
This hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to EndNote, including how to create a library of references and use it to automatically format your bibliography.
For class details and to register for one of the sessions, go to http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Classes/classregistration.cfm.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WORKSHOPS
The School of Medicine offers face-to-face training on various multimedia software. Although this training is for School of Medicine faculty and staff, we have quite a bit of documentation we're happy to share. Although non-SOM faculty/staff have a lower priority for these classes, they are welcome to sign up on our waitlist (if the class isn't full and/or there are cancellations, we'd be happy to have them attend the class).
Documentation: http://help.med.unc.edu/training
Classes: http://help.med.unc.edu/training/classes
-- Claudia L. Condrey, Manager, Web Development and Online Curriculum
Office of Information Systems, UNC-CH School of Medicine
tel: 966-9900
email: ccondrey@med.unc.edu
BLACKBOARD WORKSHOPS
There are still spaces available in the following Blackboard workshops. To read a workshop description or to register for any of these workshops, go to http://learnit.unc.edu/workshops.
When multiple dates are listed, the workshop is offered on each of those dates.
Introduction to Blackboard 8
September 30
Introduction to Blackboard Grade Center
October 22
October 28
Blackboard 8: Assignment Tool, Test and Quizzes
October 6
October 20
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.
Finding Funding for Teaching and Learning Projects
September 29
Matlab: Introduction
September 29
November 5<
Games4Learning Discussion: Playing to Learn: Game-Driven Comprehension
of Complex Content October 1
Games4Learning: Authentic Learning in Virtual Worlds
October 6
Perl: Getting Started
October 8
December 7
MPI for Parallel Computing
October 13
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security on the Internet
October 15
ConsiderIT: Spanish 101 Course Redesign: Moving From Face-to-Face to Hybrid to Online
October 19
Introduction to Topsail, a Research Computing Server
October 26
Games4Learning: Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Skills
October 27
Scientific Computing: Introduction to Scientific Computing
October 29
Scientific Computing: Gaussian and GaussView
November 5
Professional Reputation Management
November 6
Linux: Introduction
November 10
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 & 18
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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