DETAILED SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

The table below shows the detailed schedule for the CET 2009 Symposium, The Digital Scholar. Brief descriptions of each session are provided below the table. To jump directly to the descriptions, click on either link below:

• Track 1 Sessions
  
• Track 2 Sessions
• Track 3 Sessions

If you have any questions about the symposium, please send them to jcannon@smith.edu. To return to the symposium overview page, click here. To register for one or more sessions, click here.


Note: Italics indicate times when both groups will meet together.

2009 CET Symposium Descriptions

TRACK 1: THE NEW CARTOGRAPHERS

A new emerging middle class of cartographers is tumbling out of the Web 2.0 wave. These new cartographers and geographers are often referred to as Neogeographers, and more often than not come from disciplines outside of Geography. The New Cartographer track embraces the concept that anyone can make a map/mashup for distribution on the Web or in a Virtual Globe.

Virtual Globes I & II
(Jon Caris)

Explore the exciting “virtual” world of Virtual Globes.  Discover how to use Google Earth beyond just finding your house or looking over the neighbor’s fence. Learn how to create geo-narratives and enriched stories.  Transform humdrum tabular data (spreadsheets/databases) into a virtual journey full of context and glorious landscapes.

Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
(Jon Caris)

Lace up your boots or sneakers and venture outside to collect some field data using a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. Impress your friends with knowledge about how GPS works and begin to understand how the location of anything is becoming everything.

GPS and Geotagging
(Jon Caris, Caroline Moore)

Continue with GPS processing as needed and introduce GeoTagging.

Hands-on Tools
(Kate Lee, Jeff Heath, Frank Citino, Jon Caris)

Learn to get the best from digital cameras, camcorders, audio devices, GPS devices. This open, hands-on workshop will allow you to visit several stations where a professional staff member will demonstrate and lead you through the use of these media tools.

Map Mashups I & II
(Jon Caris)

Become part of the revolution and learn how to bring hidden information to life through a mashup.  Explore some of the best mashups and then learn how to map and share data buried on your desktop. We’ll also try to scrap some data from the web, add a dash of our own data, and create a shiny new mashup.

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TRACK 2: RESEARCHER 2.0

A variety of tools, websites, open access resources, and advanced database features are now available to enhance the research process, from discovery and writing to presentation, online publishing and archiving. Many of these “Web 2.0” tools make it possible to share interests and publish research output. This track offers faculty and other researchers a sessions with hands-on application of tools, and exposure to new resources offered or supported by the libraries.


Track Overview & Highlights
(Sika Berger)

An overview presentation highlights components of the “Researcher 2.0” workshops and presents a preview of pathways to various “new web” research tools supported by librarians and technologists at Smith.

Finding the Pearls
(Barbara Polowy, Pam Skinner)

This hands-on “discovery” workshop takes researchers to some of the best entry points and search tools for finding digital images, digitized texts, and scholarship online. Featured SCL web pages may include Find Images; Find Primary Sources; Performing Arts Media; plus expanded WorldCat and OAIster. RSS/Alerts will be explained as a way of keeping up with new published scholarship.

Putting Your Scholarship Online  
(Eric Loehr, Michele Wick, Jon Cartledge, Karen Kukil)

This workshop focuses on local and open access tools for creation and building of scholarly digital libraries or individual research repositories and databases.  Topics include the Smith College Digital Theses and Honors Projects collections (DSpace); collaborations between libraries, faculty, ETS and the Imaging Center; and web publishing projects from Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI) and Omeka, as well as Greenstone Digital Library Software.

On-line Collaborative Writing
(Aisha Gabriel)

Co-authoring through electronic means makes the process almost transparent. Learn to work on documents of various types on-line through wikis, Google docs and other sharing options

Connecting with Others
(Sika Berger, Barbara Polowy)

The “sharing for researchers” workshop includes an introduction to bibliographic management online, plus hands-on work with a social bookmarking site. The presentation will look at open source tools for tagging, description, and presentation, such as RefShare, LibraryThing, delicious, CiteULike, Connotea, Brainify, Slideshare, OpenOffice Impress, or authorStream.

Hands-on Tools
(Kate Lee, Jeff Heath, Frank Citino, Jon Caris)

Learn to get the best from digital cameras, camcorders, audio devices, GPS devices. This open, hands-on workshop will allow you to visit several stations where professional will demonstrate and lead you through the use of these media tools.

Online Scholarly Publishing
(Chris Loring, Karen Kukil, Aisha Gabriel)

This session opens with a discussion of how scholarly communication is changing with greater acceptance of open access & Creative Commons licensing, and will touch on efforts of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). A case study in expansion and diversity is presented by the growing availability of material on Virginia Woolf. Online publishing, open access repositories, and linkages among a wide range of scholarly and primary source materials are part of the whole. The session also features a nuts-and-bolts approach to practical aspects of working with publishers online.

Keeping it Organized (or “Taming the Wild Document”)  
(David Podboy, Marlene Wong)

This hands-on “management” workshop for scholars features Smith’s licensed RefWorks bibliographic management software, and will introduce open source tools such as Zotero, GoogleDocs, OpenOffice tools, and social bookmarking.


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TRACK 3: INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

Local interviews and videos, journaling (wikis or blogs), making connections and having conversations (Skype, iChat), sharing internship papers, image and video (Flickr, YouTube), building maps (Google Maps) and more are all technologies that potentially enhance the study abroad experience and better prepare our students for their time away from Smith. They allow all students, whether they study abroad or not, to have connections with scholars and other students from around the world. This track explores their potential and provides opportunities to try them out first hand.


Web Conferencing
(Jo Cannon)

There are now many programs and inexpensive web cameras that allow you to converse directly with anyone around the world who has access to the internet. How does this technology effect our teaching and the potential for international contacts before, during and after study abroad? Come play with the tools and discuss the multitude of possibilities.

Journaling/ Blogging
(Aisha Gabriel)

Online writing is the diary of the digital native.  Our students are doing it all the time and visiting others blogs for information, contacts, research and more.  How can we use this technology to connect generations of students studying abroad.

On-line Collaborative Writing
(Aisha Gabriel)

Co-authoring through electronic means makes the process almost transparent. Learn to work on documents of various types on-line through wikis, Google docs and other sharing options

Media for Web
(Kate Lee)

Video, audio, images, digital narrative, screen casts - media is everywhere on the web. You can use existing materials, or you and your students can create your own. This session will focus on the potential of making your own media in relationship to the study abroad experience.

Hands-on Tools
(Kate Lee, Jeff Heath, Frank Citino, Jon Caris)

Learn to get the best from digital cameras, camcorders, audio devices, GPS devices. This open, hands-on workshop will allow you to visit several stations where professional will demonstrate and lead you through the use of these media tools.

Map Mashups
(Jon Caris)

Become part of the revolution and learn how to bring hidden information to life through a mashup.  Explore some of the best mashups and then learn how to map and share data buried on your desktop. We’ll also try to scrap some data from the web, add a dash of our own data, and create a shiny new mashup.

Media Sharing
(Jo Cannon, Kate Lee)

Once you have your message in a video or other media, you may want to share it beyond your course or students.  We’ll look at online storage and delivery options like: YouTube, Flickr, iPhoto, Picassa, Wuala, Skydrive. We'll also explore Smith's in house options.

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