U-Denver NEH Institute for Digital Humanities: 12/15/10

University of Denver’s Digital Media Studies Program is accepting applications for fellowships in the 2011-2012 Institute for the Digital Humanities, a program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Proposals Due December 15, 2010: Email proposals to adrienne.russell@du.edu and lynn.clark@du.edu.

The University of Denver’s Institute for the Digital Humanities will offer 12 visiting scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of incorporating interactive media into interdisciplinary collaboration and public dissemination of research. Fellows will be given training and mentoring in the use of digital tools for data analysis and presentation, social collaboration and authorship, and/or research production and dissemination in relation to projects of their own choosing.

Gardner Campbell: Digital Citizenship in a Networked World

UO Digital Scholars:  Save the date, and spread the word to your colleagues — this will be a challenging and inspiring presentation.

From Chronicle of Higher Education ProfHacker blog:
“… Baylor’s Gardner Campbell… is so electrically inspiring in conversation that he should be tattooed with a warning label.”

Prof. Campbell’s talk is scheduled for Friday, November 5, at 4 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room. See you there! [NB: If you missed it in person, here's a a link to a Nathan Gilles interview with Campbell:

http://it.uoregon.edu/itconnections/gardner-campbell]

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The notion that we live in an age of “cognitive surplus” has recently sparked much conversation and controversy. Can computer networks give us the potential to improve the human condition through the wise use of increased free time, expanded brain function, and innovations that harness collective intelligence? If so, how can teaching, learning, and research improve our chances of realizing that potential? What can universities do to prepare students for productive and fulfilling lives as digital citizens?

In the 2010 Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries Lecture, Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University and a leading authority of the use of technology in higher education, will address these questions in a talk entitled “Digital Citizenship in a Networked World.” The lecture is scheduled for Friday, November 5, at 4 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room.

Campbell, who is also an associate professor of literature, media, and learning in the Honors College at Baylor, is well known as an advocate for changing the way we teach in university settings. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on Renaissance literature, film, and teaching and learning technologies. He maintains a popular blog, Gardner Writes, at http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/.

Campbell received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute (2005), was chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia from 2006 to 2008, and has served on program committees for both EDUCAUSE and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). He is currently a member of the Advisory Council for ELI, the Advisory Board for the New Media Consortium / ELI “Horizon Project,” and the board of the directors for the New Media Consortium.

11/5 Skype workshop with ODH Program Officer Jen Serventi

UODS will sponsor a Skype workshop/meeting with NEH Office of Digital Humanities Senior Program Officer Jennifer Serventi in the McKenzie Collaboration Center, 175 McKenzie, from 10am-noon on Friday November 5.  Jen will queue up a PowerPoint on NEH grant programs, go through it with UO us over Skype, leaving ample time for questions (about an hour).

We’ll then devote up to 60 minutes to general discussion about the NEH review process (in particular, the Office of Digital Humanities).

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Follow Jen Serventi on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jenserventi

Follow NEH Office of Digital Humanities on Titter: http://twitter.com/NEH_ODH

NEH on Facebook? Yep: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-DC/National-Endowment-for-the-Humanities/131252093552454?v=wall

Share this information with interested colleagues and graduate students.

UO Open Access Week 10/15-22

Open Access Week 2010

Join the University of Oregon Libraries as we participate in an international celebration of Open Access, Oct 14-22, 2010. We’re highlighting a series of new services provided by the UO Libraries that support Open Access.  For more details of UO initiatives to support Open Access see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.html.

Week at a Glance

Friday Oct 15 3:30pm-5pm	Keynote speaker:  Kevin L. Smith, Duke University: “Why Open Access Works and Copyright Doesn’t” Friday, Oct 15, 3:30pm Knight Library Browsing Room
Monday Oct 18 1pm-1:30pm	OA Week kickoff videocast Harold Varmus (director, National Cancer Institute) and Cameron Neylon (author of “Science in the Open”) are featured speakers in this short video highlighting the benefits of open access. Screening in the Knight Library Collaboration Center
Tuesday Oct 19 1pm-2:30pm	Electronic Theses and Dissertations at the UO 1:00pm ETDs at UO, an Overview, Ann Miller 1:30pm How to Prepare and Submit an ETD, Nargas Oskui Knight Library Collaboration Center
Wednesday Oct 20 1pm-2:30pm	New Library Services Supporting Open Access at UO 1:00pm Open Access Repositories, Karen Estlund 1:30pm OA Publishing Grants from the UO Libraries, Dean Walton 2:00pm UO Libraries as OA Journal Publisher, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center
Friday Oct 22 1pm-2:00pm	Retaining Your Rights: Negotiating Publisher Copyright Transfer Agreements, JQ Johnson Knight Library Collaboration Center

A useful screencast from H. Rheingold on ‘tuning’ resources for research

Thanks again, Howard Rheingold! Take advantage of some of the tools that Howard discusses in this short screencast:

http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_1116090935.swf