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CITations #114
February 20, 2004
No. 114
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 Center for Instructional Technology.
Identity Abuse Symposium
February ConsiderIT Series
2004 IT Awards: Call for Nominations
Talk on Digitized Sound Archives
News from ibiblio.org
RTPnet Conference
ITRC Tip: Selective Printing
CITations Tips Archive
Conference Announcements
2004 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations
The Internet and the Social Sciences Working Group (also known as Internet Impact) is sponsoring a symposium on Identity Abuse in Academe. The symposium will feature presentations and panel discussions on online identity, what constitutes identity abuse, and how to protect yourself from identity abuse. Ample time will be provided for audience participation. More information will be available on the Internet Impact website http://www.unc.edu/internetimpact/.
When: Friday, February 20
9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(come and go, as necessary)
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend all or part of the day's activities. The symposium is free and no registration is required.
Internet Impact serves as a forum for interdisciplinary investigations on two fronts: how the Internet and associated technologies are applied in social science research and what impact the Internet is having on institutions and the lives of individuals. For more information, see http://www.unc.edu/internetimpact/.
"Engaging Students with Blogs"
Who: Suchi Mohanty and Jean Ferguson, R. B. House Undergraduate Library, and Suzanne Cadwell, Center for Instructional Technology
When: Friday, February 27, 12 noon -- 1:00 p.m.
Where: 404 Hanes Hall
Web log software affords an easy-to-use tool for posting information to a web page. Writers of web logs, "bloggers," and their readers appreciate the immediacy and informality that characterize this publishing venue. In this session, representatives from the Undergraduate Library and from the Center for Instructional Technology will discuss how blogs are being used and could be used to make academic resources and assignments more approachable for students.
Suchi Mohanty and Jean Ferguson will discuss the various ways that librarians and libraries use web logs to reach out to their patrons, focussing on the Undergraduate Library's blog.
Suzanne Cadwell will overview how a series of informal web log assignments could be used to support students as they plan and develop formal research papers.
"ConsiderIT with Colleagues -- Teaching with Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill" is a series sponsored by the Center for Instructional Technology. Faculty, TAs, and staff are invited to share and discuss selected teaching and learning issues related to technology. For descriptions of previous talks in the series, see http://www.unc.edu/cit/considerit/.
-- Lori Mathis, Instructional Applications Manager
ITS Center for Instructional Technology
mathis@email.unc.edu; 962-8256
2004 IT AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
You are invited to recognize someone who has given you outstanding technical support by nominating an individual or team for a 2004 Information Technology (IT) Award. This award honors any type of information technology support on campus, from individuals who provide PC support, write code, or administrate a network; to teams that work together to provide specific technology services for a department or the University. This is an excellent way to let your IT support staff know you appreciate what they do.
A nomination should include the nominee's name(s), department, telephone number, email address, and an explanation of why this individual or team deserves to be recognized. The nomination should also include the nominator's name, the relationship to the nominee, campus address, phone number, email address, and an indication of whether the information can be shared with the nominee. Please submit your nomination by Friday, March 12, via the IT Awards website at http://itawards.unc.edu. Winners will be announced at the IT Awards Banquet on Wednesday, April 28 at the Carolina Club.
Please provide specific information that will tell this year's committee how the nominee stands out. This may involve an important project they have been working on or specific challenges they have overcome to get the job done. It should be clear to the committee that this individual or team is making a strong effort to improve the technology environment in their department or the campus.
If you have questions, contact the committee at itawards@unc.edu.
-- Lewis Binkowski & Michael Cato
Co-Chairs 2004 IT awards Committee
TALK ON DIGITIZED SOUND ARCHIVES
The Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services (OASIS) and the School of Information and Library Science Center for Research in Digital Libraries (CRADLE) are pleased to host a talk by Stephen Barrett, the project manager and technical officer from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (http://www.rsamd.ac.uk). Barrett is the lead developer of the HOTBED (Handing on Tradition by Electronic Dissemination) project (http://www.hotbed.ac.uk), which seeks to evaluate the impact of networked sound resources on learning and teaching within a performance curriculum.
HOTBED includes digitized material from the School of Scottish Studies' sound archives, corresponding metadata, a search engine, user-defined controls for teaching and learning, a messaging service which allows users to communicate and share collections of materials, as well as personalized teaching environments. In this presentation Barrett will provide a review of the system from both the development and user perspectives, discuss evaluation components, and go over future plans for the system.
After a series of presentations in the UK it became clear that the HOTBED model would be of great benefit to the wider education community, in terms of its community- and user-centered structure and its developing multimedia tools. Barrett is encouraging feedback from academic audiences in the USA on what they would like to see in a wider system of this type.
Date: Friday, February 27, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Place: 208 Manning Hall
For more information, contact Megan Winget Barrett at winget@email.unc.edu.
ibiblio.org is a nonprofit Internet collaborative at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
New resources of local interest include:
Cory Doctorow: A Public Talk on the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Copyright
http://www.ibiblio.org/doctorow/
Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of people dedicated to protecting constitutional rights and advocating on behalf of free expression in the digital age. He works on policy research, participates in standards bodies, and works to enlist the support of other organizations in EFF's issues. Doctorow is the author of several books and short stories, including Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Science Fiction Writing for Dummies, and the Nebula nominated OwnzOred. His new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, is due out in April, 2004.
unciTunes.org
http://uncitunes.org/
unciTunes.org, a free service to UNC's iTunes user community, functions as a virtual hub -- users can log in, share information and playlists, upload their library lists for easy browsing, and post recent additions to their collections that they might like to share.
To check all the recent ibiblio additions, go to http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=n
For more information about ibiblio.org and links to all ibiblio collections, see http://ibiblio.org/.
RTPnet, a Triangle area community network, will host its 5th Annual Conference: Bridging North Carolina's Digital/Human Divide on March 19, 2004, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The Community Technology Awards Reception will be held at the conference.
Effective use of Information Technology is necessary to succeed, particularly in today's challenging economy. There is a gap between those people and communities who can make effective use of information technology and those who cannot.
This conference will focus on the wide variety of programs aimed at bridging North Carolina's Digital/Human Divide. Individuals and representatives of nonprofit and social services groups that provide access to computers and training are encouraged to attend, as well as educators, librarians, computer specialists, and representatives of grant-making foundations, who want to learn how they can contribute to this effort. This event provides an opportunity to build a personal network of people and organizations active in using computers and Internet technology to build a better, stronger community in North Carolina and beyond.
For the first time, RTPnet Community Technology Awards will be presented at the conference. These awards recognize and honor individuals, organizations, institutions, and businesses that have made significant contributions to North Carolina communities in the area of information and computer technology. Nominations for the 2004 RTPnet Community Technology Awards will be accepted through February 23, 2004.
RTPnet is a community network for the Triangle area (http://www.rtpnet.org/). For conference information visit http://www.rtpnet.org/conf/ or send email to info@rtpnet.org.
For awards information and a link to the nomination form, visit http://www.rtpnet.org/awards/.
-- Judy Hallman, Executive Director, RTPnet
hallman@rtpnet.org or http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman/
Do you ever need to print just part of a web page or email message?
Here's how to print selectively:
1. First, select (highlight) the area you would like to print.
2. Next, from the file menu, select Print.
3. When the printer dialog box comes up, choose the option for "Selection," in the "Print Range" frame.
4. Click Print.
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2004 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
January 9 & 23
February 6 & 20
March 5 & 19
April 2 & 16
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