Spring 2017 Calendar of Events
A selection of events presented by L&IT and focusing on some aspect of digital scholarship or digital pedagogy.More events to be posted.
Date | Event | Time & Location | Information |
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1/19 | L&IT Summer Grant Application Work Session | DSC 12-1pm | Applying for a L&IT digital scholarship grant? In this workshop we’ll help you to develop a compelling, achievable research concept and work plan. (facilitated by Diane Jakacki) |
1/25 | L&IT Summer Grant Application Work Session | DSC 12-1pm | Applying for a L&IT digital scholarship grant? In this workshop we’ll help you to develop a compelling, achievable research concept and work plan. (facilitated by Diane Jakacki) |
1/26 | New Horizons: A View from the Dean’s Office (Karl Voss, Michael Johnson-Kramer, Patrick Mather) | East Reading Room 12-1pm | The deans of A&S, Engineering, and Management offer their perspectives on the significant changes they see in teaching, learning, and scholarship and the role or impact the library and technology play in those changes. |
2/1 | New Horizons: Choose Your Own Engineering Ethics Adventure | TRR 12-1pm | Craig Beal shares his experience of collaborating with L&IT to create a unique ethics assignment that challenged first-year Engineering students to question real-world professional actions and consequences |
2/2 | How Did They Make That? ArcGIS Online in your Teaching | DSC 12-1pm | Learn how faculty members from across the curriculum are developing sophisticated spatially-focused assignments with ArcGIS’s easy-to-use web interface. (facilitated by Janine Glathar) |
2/08 | New Horizons: A New Framework for Information Literacy | TRR 12-1pm | Members of Research Services will lead a discussion about how we are reframing the ways in which we are re-thinking information literacy, that our students should learn a set of integrated abilities encompassing the discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, the use of information in creating new knowledge, and participating ethically in communities of learning. |
2/9 | How Did They Make That? Using Story Maps for Student Projects or Lab Assignments | DSC 12-1pm | Find out how your students can create interactive, mixed-media (maps, images, video, websites, animations, etc.) presentations using ArcGIS Online’s Story Map application. (facilitated by Janine Glathar) |
2/15 | New Horizons: Coal Collections | East Reading Room 12-1pm | This panel discussion will focus on the collaboration among faculty, students, and staff working with Coal Region communities as part of Bucknell’s year-long Coal Collections celebration. |
2/16 | Data Drive-in | DSC 12-1pm | Working on a data-based research project or class assignment? Having trouble with a dataset that requires special structure? Drop by and we’ll experiment together on how best to prep your data. (facilitated by Todd Suomela and Diane Jakacki) |
2/16 | Digital Pedagogy Showcase | BERT 025 4-5pm | Applying for the Digital Pedagogy Summer Institute? Interested in incorporating digital projects into your classroom? This will introduce you to the resources we have available in DP&S and showcase course projects we could help you to develop as you think about courses for next year. We’ll be on hand along with faculty members who have worked with us in the past. (facilitated by Emily Sherwood) |
2/22 | New Horizons: New Horizons: Gaming Antiquity | East Reading Room 12-1pm | Learn how Tom Beasley has turned the Classics on its ear in his course “Gaming Antiquity”, which challenges students to think about the ancient world through playing and development of desktop and computer games. |
2/22 | Working Group: Data and Computational Literacy | DSC 4-5pm | How can librarians, faculty, and students work together to improve our understanding of the computational methods and data that are changing the world? Join us for a discussion of how big data is shaping the future of education and how to integrate data and computational literacy in the classroom. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
2/24 | Library Open House | BERT 025 1-3pm | Learn about library services and resources. Whether you are new to campus or have been here for awhile, the resources, services, and expertise that we have to offer are constantly evolving. |
3/1 | Working Group: Data and Computational Literacy | DSC 4-5pm | How can librarians, faculty, and students work together to improve our understanding of the computational methods and data that are changing the world? Join us for a discussion of how big data is shaping the future of education and how to integrate data and computational literacy in the classroom. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
3/2 | How Did They Make That? Media Space and Closed Captioning | DSC 12-1pm | Bucknell’s streaming video service (Media Space) now offers closed-captioning functionality. In this session you will learn how you can request captioning for your course videos. (facilitated by Deb Balducci) |
3/07 | Faculty Scholarship Reception | TRR 4-6pm | Join us for a reception celebrating faculty scholarship at Bucknell University. Co-sponsored by L&IT and the Provost’s Office. |
3/08 | Working Group: Data and Computational Literacy | DSC 4-5pm | How can librarians, faculty, and students work together to improve our understanding of the computational methods and data that are changing the world? Join us for a discussion of how big data is shaping the future of education and how to integrate data and computational literacy in the classroom. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
3/9 | How Did They Make That? Archives in the Classroom | BSCUA 12-1pm | Tour the Archives and find out how you can integrate archival materials from Bucknell’s Special Collections into your course assignments and syllabi (held in the Bucknell Special Collections and University Archives) (facilitated by Isabella O’Neill) |
3/22 | Working Group: Data and Computational Literacy | DSC 4-5pm | How can librarians, faculty, and students work together to improve our understanding of the computational methods and data that are changing the world? Join us for a discussion of how big data is shaping the future of education and how to integrate data and computational literacy in the classroom. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
3/23 | Data Drive-in | DSC 12-1pm | Working on a data-based research project or class assignment? Having trouble with a dataset that requires special structure? Drop by and we’ll experiment together on how best to prep your data. (facilitated by Todd Suomela and Diane Jakacki) |
3/29 | Crafting Multimedia Digital Narratives with Scalar | DSC 12-2pm | From non-linear storytelling to rich, scholarly annotations, this workshop will encourage new ways of thinking about writing in digital environments. Using a web application called Scalar, you will begin to craft a media-rich digital narrative. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, including via video and audio annotations. Two sessions: Scalar I (Beginning, 12-1); Scalar II (Advanced, 1-2) (Facilitated by Alicia Peaker, Bryn Mawr College) |
3/30 | Tool Time | DSC 12-1pm | Kick the tires on some of our favorite digital tools. This month’s theme: out-of-the-box video. (facilitated by Brianna Derr) |
4/6 | How Did They Make That? Data Visualization with R - pt. 1 | DSC 12-1pm | What’s with R? Learn how scholars leverage graphics packages (such as ggplot2, lattice, or htmlwidgets) to produce powerful interactive data visualizations - this week we’ll be focusing on the natural and social sciences. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
4/13 | How Did They Make That? Data Visualization with R - pt. 2 | DSC ]12-1pm | What’s with R? Learn how scholars leverage graphics packages (such as ggplot2, lattice, or htmlwidgets) to produce powerful interactive data visualizations - this week we’ll be focusing on the humanities. (facilitated by Todd Suomela) |
4/20 | How Did They Make That? Publishing Your Scholarship in Digital Commons | DSC 12-1pm | Learn how to add and update your scholarly publications in Digital Commons so that your research can be discovered by colleagues around the globe. (facilitated by Dan Heuer) |
4/27 | Tool Time | DSC 12-1pm | Kick the tires on some of our favorite digital tools. This month’s theme: out-of-the-box time and space visualizations (facilitated by Diane Jakacki) |