Announcing the Third UNI Graduate College Carver Institute:
Visualizing Research:
An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Image Creation and Exhibition
May 19-30, 2008
- Description
- Recordings
Institute Leaders:
Dr. Bettina Fabos, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
bettina.fabos@uni.edu
Marilyn Drury, Director, ITS Educational Technology
marilyn.drury@uni.edu
Coordinator:
Dr. Victoria DeFrancisco, Interim Associate Dean and Professor, Graduate College
victoria.defrancisco@uni.edu
Description:
The 2008 Carver Graduate Education Summer Institute will prepare UNI Graduate Faculty to communicate their ideas in visual form. Participants will explore the growing significance of visual culture and investigate the overwhelming opportunities of Web 2.0 for finding and sharing visual data. Discussions will focus on the significance of the “networked public sphere”; the past, present and future of the nonprofit digital archiving movement; and the critical copyright debates regarding visual and audio production, including fair use practices, the Creative Commons, and the implications these debates have for academic research. Participants will view inspiring examples of visualized research; visit and discuss numerous digital archives, noncommercial archives, and commercial image repositories; learn how to scan their own materials; and discover where to search online for digital photos that complement their research.
The Institute also has a significant hands-on component: Participants will work with some key multimedia software to put their research in visual form, and learn how and where to publish their visual research online. The Institute will be a truly interdisciplinary enterprise that can benefit all fields of research and creative activity. Graduate Faculty learning these digital skills will be able to teach them to their graduate students, who can then take on visual initiatives of their own.
CLICK HERE for a full description of this Institute.
DATES and TIMES:
Monday, May 19: 8:30-1:00;
Tuesday, May 20: 8:30-1:00;
Wednesday, May 21: 8:30-5:30;
Thursday, May 22: 8:30-1:00;
Friday, May 23: 8:30-1:00;
Tuesday, May 27: 8:30-1:00;
Wednesday, May 28: 8:30-5:30;
Thursday, May 29: 8:30-1:00.
Enhancing the Quality of Graduate Education
at the University of Northern Iowa
This institute is a part of a three-year grant to the Graduate College from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust titled "Enhancing The Quality of Graduate Education at the University of Northern Iowa." The purpose of this initiative is to establish an enduring and intentional Graduate community across the university; bringing together graduate faculty and students to promote intellectual communication, learn from each other, share instructional technology tools and methods, and develop new ideas for interdisciplinary teaching and research. The grant supports summer institutes and subsequent research projects and classroom activities for graduate faculty (and their students) who work together with institute leaders and the Center for Educational Technology staff throughout the year.
Sponsored by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
and the
University of Northern Iowa
| Mon, May 19th | Session 1 | Institute, Carver intro; communication; visualization;food fights |
| Session 2 | Cynthia Coulter, Rod Library | |
| Session 3 | Various video examples; discussion of Lessig's Free Culture; copyright | |
| Wed, May 21st | Session 1 | Flash; Copyright |
| Thurs, May 22nd | Session 1 | More Flash and Soundslides examples; image viewing |
| Session 2 | Soundslides examples; more image viewing options |
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| Session 3 | Youtube, Flickr, the Google empire | |
| Fri, May 23rd | Session 1 | Digital Archiving; Digital Libraries; University Archives; Merlot |
| Session 2 | Scanning; Color Theory; Videography | |
