Carolyn Caizzi and Barbara Rockenbach presentation for the "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The document discusses personal learning environments before and after using Twitter. It provides links to resources about personal learning environments and Flickr photo pages. The document promotes using Twitter to expand one's personal learning network and resources.
This document discusses an approach to giving more effective presentations called "Presentation Zen". It focuses on simplicity, using visuals instead of text, and avoiding overly long "slideuments". Specific tips include keeping slides simple, following the "picture superiority effect" by using more images and less text, and not treating PowerPoint like a document. The document also discusses other presentation approaches like the "10/20/30 rule", "rule of three", and "three word challenge". It emphasizes becoming a student of presenting and lists resources like TED talks and Slideshare for learning.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: A Language of Critique for Information Archi...Stacy Surla
Information architecture is more than wireframes. But we’re confined by the mindset that thinks IA is a box to check off on a project plan. A language of critique is going to help change this discourse.
So what’s a language of critique for IA? And what’s wrong with whatever we’re using now?
The document discusses common issues with PowerPoint presentations and provides tips for giving more effective presentations. It notes that while PowerPoint is widely used, many presentations are ineffective because they rely too heavily on bullet points and text-heavy slides rather than visuals and engaging the audience. The document recommends focusing on simplicity, using images and visuals rather than walls of text, and interacting with the audience rather than treating the presentation like a document to be read. It emphasizes that the presenter, not the software or slides, should be the focus of the presentation.
A pecha-kucha slidecast presentation about the Dick and Carey System Approach model for instructional design. Reviews the 10-step process and also identifies the theoretical underpinnings of the model.
This document discusses the "flipped classroom" model and its potential use with the learning management system AsULearn. It begins by asking what the best use of face-to-face classroom time is and lists options like lecture, group work, discussions, and student questions. It then identifies three key elements of the flipped classroom model: high-quality online instructional resources, engaging in-class activities, and assessment. The document asks how the model could help courses and students. It poses questions about what instruction could be moved online, how students will be assessed, and what face-to-face time might look like. Finally, it outlines the goals and agenda for a workshop on implementing the flipped classroom model.
The document discusses personal learning environments before and after using Twitter. It provides links to resources about personal learning environments and Flickr photo pages. The document promotes using Twitter to expand one's personal learning network and resources.
This document discusses an approach to giving more effective presentations called "Presentation Zen". It focuses on simplicity, using visuals instead of text, and avoiding overly long "slideuments". Specific tips include keeping slides simple, following the "picture superiority effect" by using more images and less text, and not treating PowerPoint like a document. The document also discusses other presentation approaches like the "10/20/30 rule", "rule of three", and "three word challenge". It emphasizes becoming a student of presenting and lists resources like TED talks and Slideshare for learning.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: A Language of Critique for Information Archi...Stacy Surla
Information architecture is more than wireframes. But we’re confined by the mindset that thinks IA is a box to check off on a project plan. A language of critique is going to help change this discourse.
So what’s a language of critique for IA? And what’s wrong with whatever we’re using now?
The document discusses common issues with PowerPoint presentations and provides tips for giving more effective presentations. It notes that while PowerPoint is widely used, many presentations are ineffective because they rely too heavily on bullet points and text-heavy slides rather than visuals and engaging the audience. The document recommends focusing on simplicity, using images and visuals rather than walls of text, and interacting with the audience rather than treating the presentation like a document to be read. It emphasizes that the presenter, not the software or slides, should be the focus of the presentation.
A pecha-kucha slidecast presentation about the Dick and Carey System Approach model for instructional design. Reviews the 10-step process and also identifies the theoretical underpinnings of the model.
This document discusses the "flipped classroom" model and its potential use with the learning management system AsULearn. It begins by asking what the best use of face-to-face classroom time is and lists options like lecture, group work, discussions, and student questions. It then identifies three key elements of the flipped classroom model: high-quality online instructional resources, engaging in-class activities, and assessment. The document asks how the model could help courses and students. It poses questions about what instruction could be moved online, how students will be assessed, and what face-to-face time might look like. Finally, it outlines the goals and agenda for a workshop on implementing the flipped classroom model.
This document discusses the landscape and implications of ebooks. It notes that ebooks are an important change that libraries must address in areas like relevance to patrons, costs, impacts on operations, implementation challenges, policy considerations, and cataloging issues. Ebooks present problems that libraries must constantly work to address as the format continues to change.
The document discusses various topics related to online learning, including challenges of online learning, the active role of students, opportunities presented by online learning, accessibility, structure, complexity, MOOCs, possibilities, research, connectivism, modularity, methodology, reusability, technology, interactivity, and the future horizon of online learning. Each topic is accompanied by an image to illustrate the concept being discussed.
The document defines open educational resources (OERs) and discusses their benefits. It notes that OERs can increase visibility for universities and practitioners, as well as give learners greater control over their education. The document also outlines key debates around OERs, such as intellectual property rights, and provides recommendations for sharing and quality assuring OERs.
This document provides tips for managing groups and teams, recommending that leaders value all contributions, see diversity as a benefit, have private discussions to resolve fights, schedule casual off-topic conversations to build rapport, meet in person when possible, continuously recruit new members, provide motivation, and address what can go wrong upfront. The author is Alexandra Leisse and credits are provided for images.
Facebook in the Library: Enhancing Services and Engaging UsersALATechSource
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input. It provides tips for creating compelling content through visual and human posts that tell the library's story. The last section encourages audience participation by asking questions and calls to action. The overall message is rebooting the library's social media approach to better engage with its community.
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input to develop compelling content for different audiences. Photos with tips illustrate creating short, visual, and conversational posts that tell the library's story and encourage participation through questions, calls to action, and sharing experiences. The goal is to make social media relevant, build relationships, and enhance library services.
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input to develop compelling content for different audiences. Photos with tips illustrate creating short, visual, and conversational posts that tell the library's story and encourage participation through questions, calls to action, and sharing experiences. The goal is to make social media relevant, build relationships, and enhance library services.
Pushing, pulling or leaving the door openDale Lane
A talk about mobile apps that rely on data from the Internet, and some of the decisions and choices facing mobile app developers in writing them
SlideShare kinda screws with the speaker's notes, so if you'd like the notes it's probably best to download the presentation file.
Overview of the talk is written up at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=1009
Extending the Classroom: Conversations, Content, and Microblogging with TwitterBrian McNely
Slides from my 10.15.09 talk on Twitter, mobile devices, and pedagogy at Ball State University's Tech4U event, Schwartz Digital Complex, Bracken Library.
The document discusses three important tools for home safety: 1) Securing doors and windows to prevent intrusion. 2) Installing a home alarm system as a deterrent. 3) Having firearms for protection, though they should be safely stored away from children. The document stresses the importance of protecting one's home and family from criminal threats.
This document summarizes Champlain College's efforts to develop an impact assessment program for its information literacy curriculum. It describes embedding information literacy into a new core curriculum, teaching skills incrementally over four years, and using rubric-based assessments. The authors tracked outcomes in a matrix and used results to inform teaching. They encountered challenges but found success collaborating across departments and emphasizing meaning and usefulness in data presentation. The program emphasizes formative assessment, tolerates uncertainty, and sees assessment as an ongoing, inquiry-based process.
This document discusses how educational technologies and mobile learning (m-learning) are transforming traditional classrooms into more interactive learning environments that are motivating for digital native students. Technologies like MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and smartphone/tablet apps promote self-directed learning in an inclusive way. They allow learning to occur anywhere and at any time. Challenges include maintaining student participation and motivation to share knowledge. Greater social diffusion and diversification of formats can help MOOCs and m-learning achieve more success.
The document discusses the concept of Library 2.0 and how libraries can embrace new technologies and social media to become more open and user-centered. Some of the key ideas presented include adopting a "perpetual beta" approach of rapid development and testing new technologies, using online applications, engaging users on social media platforms they use, allowing user-generated content, and removing barriers to access information. The goal is for libraries to become more "borderless" by meeting users in the online spaces they already use.
Images & video as a springboard to learningadinasullivan
This document provides resources to support student inquiry and learning through images, videos, and visualization tools. It includes links to websites with photos on topics like historical events, child labor, and surreal art. Tools are suggested for creating visualizations like Google Forms, Google Drawings, and Instagrok. The document encourages imagining different scenarios, such as living hundreds of years ago without modern conveniences, and reflecting on how daily life would be different. Students are prompted to think about where the materials for their morning routine came from.
The document discusses ambient research and how what we find changes who we become. It mentions tweeting, meaning, mobile, recursion, and writing. Various images are credited as relating to themes of minimalism, bands, errors, tweets, writing, daydreaming, waves, chalkboards, paperboys, bookstores, magazines, pipes, and signs.
Presented at the Riding the Wave Conference in Gimli, Manitoba. May 2017.
In two words, you remember the whole story: glass slipper, sour grapes, cold porridge. You remember more than facts, you recall relationships & deeper connections between characters. Some of the powerful ways we leverage digital for deeper learning includes challenging sources of information (fake news), exploring bias (developing empathy through multiple perspectives), and creating powerful feedback loops that foster deeper learning.
Powerful narratives, in a word or two, bring to mind a wealth of ideas & relationships; more than just facts. How can we find stories that make our teaching sticky and help kids find, and more importantly tell, stories that make learning stick? This workshop will equip teachers with the skills & knowledge to foster deeper learning across the curriculum by intentionally leveraging digital tools to foster deeper learning.
A talk I gave Sept 8, 2010 on major technology trends & their impact on the library user during my interview as a candidate for the position of Head of Digital User Experience at IU Bloomington Libraries.
The Power Pics series from ManageTrainLearn and Slide Topics is a large collection of images for you to use in your documents, presentations, and commercial work. Each presentation gives you a single theme with 25 carefully-chosen images which you can then download to use in your work. You can use them to enhance the look of a slide, to create a mood, for a touch of drama, emotion, or wonder, to illustrate a topic, or as an effective background. If the license allows, you can use them to create new images and slides of your own. Of course, you can also just sit back, browse through them, and enjoy them as they are. Where presentations are concerned, great images are priceless because every one is worth a thousand words.
www.managetrainlearn.com
August 2009 OPALescence presentation - find more here: http://opalescence.wetpaint.com/page/Erin+Downey+Howerton
Find out what Web 2.0 tools are being used by teachers around the world to pump up their lesson plans, and what learning institutions can do to help them succeed.
This document discusses the landscape and implications of ebooks. It notes that ebooks are an important change that libraries must address in areas like relevance to patrons, costs, impacts on operations, implementation challenges, policy considerations, and cataloging issues. Ebooks present problems that libraries must constantly work to address as the format continues to change.
The document discusses various topics related to online learning, including challenges of online learning, the active role of students, opportunities presented by online learning, accessibility, structure, complexity, MOOCs, possibilities, research, connectivism, modularity, methodology, reusability, technology, interactivity, and the future horizon of online learning. Each topic is accompanied by an image to illustrate the concept being discussed.
The document defines open educational resources (OERs) and discusses their benefits. It notes that OERs can increase visibility for universities and practitioners, as well as give learners greater control over their education. The document also outlines key debates around OERs, such as intellectual property rights, and provides recommendations for sharing and quality assuring OERs.
This document provides tips for managing groups and teams, recommending that leaders value all contributions, see diversity as a benefit, have private discussions to resolve fights, schedule casual off-topic conversations to build rapport, meet in person when possible, continuously recruit new members, provide motivation, and address what can go wrong upfront. The author is Alexandra Leisse and credits are provided for images.
Facebook in the Library: Enhancing Services and Engaging UsersALATechSource
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input. It provides tips for creating compelling content through visual and human posts that tell the library's story. The last section encourages audience participation by asking questions and calls to action. The overall message is rebooting the library's social media approach to better engage with its community.
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input to develop compelling content for different audiences. Photos with tips illustrate creating short, visual, and conversational posts that tell the library's story and encourage participation through questions, calls to action, and sharing experiences. The goal is to make social media relevant, build relationships, and enhance library services.
The document discusses using Facebook and social media to engage library users. It emphasizes the importance of mixing marketing, IT, and librarians' input to develop compelling content for different audiences. Photos with tips illustrate creating short, visual, and conversational posts that tell the library's story and encourage participation through questions, calls to action, and sharing experiences. The goal is to make social media relevant, build relationships, and enhance library services.
Pushing, pulling or leaving the door openDale Lane
A talk about mobile apps that rely on data from the Internet, and some of the decisions and choices facing mobile app developers in writing them
SlideShare kinda screws with the speaker's notes, so if you'd like the notes it's probably best to download the presentation file.
Overview of the talk is written up at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=1009
Extending the Classroom: Conversations, Content, and Microblogging with TwitterBrian McNely
Slides from my 10.15.09 talk on Twitter, mobile devices, and pedagogy at Ball State University's Tech4U event, Schwartz Digital Complex, Bracken Library.
The document discusses three important tools for home safety: 1) Securing doors and windows to prevent intrusion. 2) Installing a home alarm system as a deterrent. 3) Having firearms for protection, though they should be safely stored away from children. The document stresses the importance of protecting one's home and family from criminal threats.
This document summarizes Champlain College's efforts to develop an impact assessment program for its information literacy curriculum. It describes embedding information literacy into a new core curriculum, teaching skills incrementally over four years, and using rubric-based assessments. The authors tracked outcomes in a matrix and used results to inform teaching. They encountered challenges but found success collaborating across departments and emphasizing meaning and usefulness in data presentation. The program emphasizes formative assessment, tolerates uncertainty, and sees assessment as an ongoing, inquiry-based process.
This document discusses how educational technologies and mobile learning (m-learning) are transforming traditional classrooms into more interactive learning environments that are motivating for digital native students. Technologies like MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and smartphone/tablet apps promote self-directed learning in an inclusive way. They allow learning to occur anywhere and at any time. Challenges include maintaining student participation and motivation to share knowledge. Greater social diffusion and diversification of formats can help MOOCs and m-learning achieve more success.
The document discusses the concept of Library 2.0 and how libraries can embrace new technologies and social media to become more open and user-centered. Some of the key ideas presented include adopting a "perpetual beta" approach of rapid development and testing new technologies, using online applications, engaging users on social media platforms they use, allowing user-generated content, and removing barriers to access information. The goal is for libraries to become more "borderless" by meeting users in the online spaces they already use.
Images & video as a springboard to learningadinasullivan
This document provides resources to support student inquiry and learning through images, videos, and visualization tools. It includes links to websites with photos on topics like historical events, child labor, and surreal art. Tools are suggested for creating visualizations like Google Forms, Google Drawings, and Instagrok. The document encourages imagining different scenarios, such as living hundreds of years ago without modern conveniences, and reflecting on how daily life would be different. Students are prompted to think about where the materials for their morning routine came from.
The document discusses ambient research and how what we find changes who we become. It mentions tweeting, meaning, mobile, recursion, and writing. Various images are credited as relating to themes of minimalism, bands, errors, tweets, writing, daydreaming, waves, chalkboards, paperboys, bookstores, magazines, pipes, and signs.
Presented at the Riding the Wave Conference in Gimli, Manitoba. May 2017.
In two words, you remember the whole story: glass slipper, sour grapes, cold porridge. You remember more than facts, you recall relationships & deeper connections between characters. Some of the powerful ways we leverage digital for deeper learning includes challenging sources of information (fake news), exploring bias (developing empathy through multiple perspectives), and creating powerful feedback loops that foster deeper learning.
Powerful narratives, in a word or two, bring to mind a wealth of ideas & relationships; more than just facts. How can we find stories that make our teaching sticky and help kids find, and more importantly tell, stories that make learning stick? This workshop will equip teachers with the skills & knowledge to foster deeper learning across the curriculum by intentionally leveraging digital tools to foster deeper learning.
A talk I gave Sept 8, 2010 on major technology trends & their impact on the library user during my interview as a candidate for the position of Head of Digital User Experience at IU Bloomington Libraries.
The Power Pics series from ManageTrainLearn and Slide Topics is a large collection of images for you to use in your documents, presentations, and commercial work. Each presentation gives you a single theme with 25 carefully-chosen images which you can then download to use in your work. You can use them to enhance the look of a slide, to create a mood, for a touch of drama, emotion, or wonder, to illustrate a topic, or as an effective background. If the license allows, you can use them to create new images and slides of your own. Of course, you can also just sit back, browse through them, and enjoy them as they are. Where presentations are concerned, great images are priceless because every one is worth a thousand words.
www.managetrainlearn.com
August 2009 OPALescence presentation - find more here: http://opalescence.wetpaint.com/page/Erin+Downey+Howerton
Find out what Web 2.0 tools are being used by teachers around the world to pump up their lesson plans, and what learning institutions can do to help them succeed.
Steven Kowalik, Hunter College / CUNY
New York City presentation from VRA 28 Atlanta.
"Transition to Learning Spaces: Redefining Our Space for the Digital World" for the "After the Transition: Planning for Collections Storage & Workspace Changes in the Digital Environment" session.
The document discusses metadata schemas and workflows for cataloging digital assets. It provides examples of metadata schemas including Dublin Core and Photoshop XMP schemas. It also describes different organizations' processes for collecting metadata from faculty and students and integrating it into databases using tools like Photoshop and custom metadata panels. Custom metadata schemas are suggested to better fit specific needs rather than repackaging existing schemas.
Jennifer Friedman presentation at the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Karen Kessel presentation for "More Than Meets the Eye? Retrieving Art Images by Subject" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd joint conference in Minneapolis, MN.
This document discusses using social media like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to promote learning technologies at the University of Sheffield. It encourages modeling desired online behaviors, tackling achievable goals, using available systems, sharing real stories, and practicing what you preach to effectively engage students and disseminate information.
The document discusses options for school library websites, including common platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Weebly, and Google Sites. It emphasizes that having an online presence is important for teacher librarians and provides tips on selecting content and tools to include, such as book reviews, calendars, videos, and more. The goal is to pick a mix of features that best suits your needs without being too costly. Having a well-designed, useful website can help promote your library's resources.
This document provides information about an upcoming pre-conference session called "Crowd Wise" at the IATEFL 2010 conference. The session will include a mini presentation on psychological, historical, and evolutionary aspects of real-life communities, followed by an interactive discussion and swap-shop where participants can discuss key roles in online communities, group life cycles, etiquette issues, and conflict resolution. The session aims to help current and potential online educational community leaders. The document also includes questions for participants to ponder and provides details on pre-conference and post-conference activities related to the session.
The Importance of Storytelling in Web Design, WordCamp Miami 2013Denise Jacobs
The document discusses the importance of storytelling in web design. It argues that storytelling is how humans naturally gather and process information, and that websites should incorporate story elements like characters, plots, and settings to effectively engage users. Specific examples of websites that successfully use stories are provided. The presentation encourages designers to think of themselves as modern storytellers and to integrate narrative elements into their design process from the beginning of a project.
Reciprocal Teaching presentation for the North Carolina Reading Association Conference by Kristen Borge, Kimberley Gilbert, Jennifer Jones, Elizabeth Swaggerty, and Ruby Timberlake. Website: http://tinyurl.com/reciprocalteaching
Keynote at Alaska Society of Technology EducationJeff Piontek
The document discusses the characteristics and experiences of 21st century learners. It describes learners as constantly connected, highly social, and accustomed to customized experiences. Effective learners are described as lifelong learners, natural navigators, critical thinkers, and effective communicators and creators. Classrooms need to focus on problem solving, embrace digital tools, design real-world challenges, and provide an authentic and connected learning experience for networked students. The goal is to make learning relevant through customized experiences across grade levels and subject areas.
The document discusses learning objects, which are digital resources that can be reused to facilitate learning, and trends related to their use. Learning objects have properties like being self-contained, reusable, flexible, and customizable. The document also explores trends in learning object usage, such as their role in intelligent adaptive courseware and open educational resources as well as debates around reuse versus copyright.
School Libraries and Classroom Communities School Libraries and Classroom Com...Buffy Hamilton
Presented to Dr. Ryan Rish and his students at Kennesaw State University. You may want to install these free fonts before downloading the PDF in order to see the slides properly: http://www.dafont.com/bebas-neue.font and Pacifico: http://www.dafont.com/pacifico.font.
Professional learning networks in your classroom Nomathams
The document discusses dichotomies between personal learning environments and institutions. It notes that personal learning networks are individual and web-based, while professional learning communities are group-initiated and hierarchical. However, a collaborative apprenticeship model can merge the two by having teachers develop infusion practices through mentored lessons, group blogging for reflection, and both online and in-person meetings to help teachers grow networks and reflect professionally.
1) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) first emerged in 2007 and grew rapidly with the founding of for-profit startups like Coursera, Udacity, and edX in 2011-2012.
2) The author discusses their experiences with cMOOCs focused on connectivism and open education in courses like Change11 and ds106.
3) Data is provided on a Coursera MOOC on social network analysis showing typical metrics like thousands of students registering but far fewer engaging deeply with content or assessments.
4) Comments emphasize the importance of community in cMOOCs compared to the more standardized, passive experience of xMOOCs.
Building Together: Nurturing Leadership through Communities of Practice - LMI...Virginia Pannabecker
In the current era of never-ending change, effective library organizations must be nimble and flexible. Formal committee structures and reporting lines often get in the way of making changes quickly and may not provide opportunities for leadership development. Communities of Practice (CoPs), as realized at Arizona State University Libraries, provide a flexible model to gather employees from diverse areas and levels of an organization to address a common interest, project or problem. The issues and projects addressed by CoPs at ASU Libraries have benefited overall organizational dynamics and promoted management/staff interpersonal relations, leadership skills, self-awareness, and increased involvement from employees of all areas. Many who participate in these groups go on to participate in further leadership roles in formal groups within the organization. In this workshop, participants will learn about CoPs as an organizational and leadership development resource, including discussion of the theory behind the practice, resources useful for these collaborative working groups and an interactive discussion break-out time for an opportunity to consider how such groups might work in individual organizations.
This document discusses leveraging technology to engage students in learning. It emphasizes that the goal is not just integrating technology for its own sake or "fixing" curriculum, but seeing opportunities with a fresh perspective and "lighting up learners". True engagement involves immersion, deeper understanding, better retention and successful application of knowledge. The document explores what motivates and engages learners through authentic tasks, choice, collaboration and allowing some risk-taking. While technology is not the goal, it can enhance engagement by allowing global collaboration and accessing current information.
This document discusses leveraging technology to engage students in learning. It emphasizes that the goal is not just integrating technology for its own sake or "fixing" curriculum, but seeing opportunities with a fresh perspective and "lighting up learners". True engagement involves immersion, deeper understanding, better retention and successful application of knowledge. The document explores what motivates and engages learners through authentic tasks, choice, collaboration and allowing some risk-taking. While technology is not the goal, it can enhance engagement by allowing global collaboration and access to expertise.
The document describes a study conducted by John Lodge and Miles Berry at Roehampton University on migrating an ICT course for trainee teachers to a blended learning format. It discusses solving problems with the original course structure, designing a new solution by restructuring course delivery and drawing from literature on blended learning and blogs. Early outcomes were satisfactory course completions but tutors found it difficult to provide feedback and technical difficulties occurred. A second iteration implemented a conceptual framework and BlogFolio system. The study focused on outcomes and methodology, reporting findings to the university.
Presentation at Oklahoma's 4-H Roundup. Topics covered include the Cooperative Alliances, the reasons to transition to higher education and degree completion.
A short presentation about the process that Yokohama International School went through to develop our Connected Learning Community (1:1 program) for the Learning 2.014 Africa conference.
This document summarizes Jordan McFarlen's journey exploring the educational uses of Google Wave. Google Wave is a collaboration platform that allows users to share workspaces and collaboratively edit documents. The document outlines how Wave can be used for teacher professional development, as an online classroom tool for student engagement and assessment, and for student collaboration on group projects. Examples of robots and gadgets that can enhance the Wave experience are also provided.
This document outlines a plan to build a tutorial for Summon, a discovery service tool. It discusses promoting the tutorial to students and faculty, developing content about the tool's technology and implementation, evaluating the tutorial's impact through metrics like daily views, and ensuring the tutorial is sustainable and compatible with library needs over time. The document poses final questions about the tutorial plan.
VRA 2023 Collections Management in Fashion and Media session. Presenter: Wen Nie Ng
The goal of the paper is to enhance the metadata standard of fashion collections by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements for Costume Core, a metadata schema designed specifically for fashion artifacts. Various techniques are employed to achieve this goal, including identifying new descriptors using word embedding similarity measurements and adding new descriptive terms for precise artifact descriptions to use when re-cataloging a university fashion collection in Costume Core. The paper also provides a sneak peek of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which simplifies the vocabulary review process. Additionally, a survey was conducted to collect insights into how other fashion professionals use metadata when describing dress artifacts. The survey results reveal 1) commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion domain; 2) sample metadata respondents use; and 3) partial potential metadata that can be appended to Costume Core, which is relevant to Virginia Tech's Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection. The expanded Costume Core resulting from the project offers a more comprehensive way of describing fashion collection holdings/artifacts. It has the potential to be adopted by the fashion collections to produce metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
VRA 2023 Adventures in Critical Cataloging session. Presenters: Sara Schumacher and Millicent Fullmer
This paper will cover the results of a research study looking at visual resources professionals' perceptions of the visual canon at their institutions and their actions confronting biases in their visual collections. This research is innovative because the "visual canon" as a concept is often evoked but rarely defined, and there has not been research into perceptions and practices that span different types of cultural heritage institutions. The researchers seek to focus on the role of the visual resources professional as a potential change-maker in confronting bias and transforming the “visual canon.” In our presentation, we will discuss the analysis of our survey and interviews around three key research questions: What barriers do visual resources professionals perceive in remedying the biases in the visual canon? What authorities, past and present, do they identify in shaping the visual canon? How do they approach teaching users to identify and critically confront these issues? We will highlight trends as well as unique concerns and solutions from our research participants and engage our audience with how these issues impact their own collections, policies, and instruction.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: John J. Taormina
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project collects historic images of the medieval monuments of South Italy, from the so-called Kingdom of Sicily dating from c. 950 to c. 1430, during the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and early Aragonese periods. The project was begun in 2011, as part of a 3-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under project investigators Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, and William Tronzo, University of California, San Diego.
The site features over 8,000 historical images in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs, and plans and elevations culled from museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and America, often from the Grand Tour, as well as from available publications. The value of the database lies in making accessible to scholars the visual documentation of changes to historical sites because the medieval monuments of South Italy have been damaged, changed, and restored on many occasions, with tombs and liturgical furnishings often destroyed, dismantled, or removed. In fact, many of the 600 monuments no longer exist, often bombed during World War II or destroyed in earthquakes, or obscured by modern buildings and urban sprawl.
VRA 2023 Archives Tools and Techniques session. Presenters: Maureen Burns and Lavinia Ciuffa
The Ernest Nash collection documents ancient Roman architecture in pre- and post-World War II Italy. What made Nash's work significant, beyond capturing the present state of the ancient Roman monuments at a volatile historical moment, was the primacy of the topographical photography and the systematic order he brought to this subject. The American Academy's Photographic Archive contributed Nash's images to an open access, interactive website called the "Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome." It reveals the city in stunning detail and uses geo-referencing to provide the viewer with a better understanding of the overall contextual and spatial logic. These Nash images and metadata are also IIIF compatible. As the Academy continues to digitize and describe the full collection of about 30,000 images, thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, a new partnership has developed with Archivision and vrcHost. Current high quality digital photographs of the same ancient Roman monuments are being added to compare with the historical images documenting architectural changes--whether conserved, restored, altered, reconstructed, re-sited or destroyed. This presentation will provide a progress report about what it takes to move new digital photography into IIIF and the various tools available for close examination and presentation. Finding ways to provide ready access and juxtapose historic and contemporary photography online, builds upon the legacy of Nash's quality curation and scholarship to create 21st century, accessible, online educational resources of great interest and utility to scholars, students, and a wide audience of ancient Roman enthusiasts.
VRA 2023 Exploring 3D Technologies in the Classroom session. Presenter: Amy McKenna
Amy McKenna (Williams College) discusses her project that uses Photoshop and cardboard 3D glasses to recreate the 19th-century spectacle of a historic glass stereo collection.
VRA 2023 Keynote. Presenter: Melissa Gohlke
A historical record that focuses on white, heteronormative society and events obscures many facets of San Antonio history. Peel back the veneer of normalcy and one can find rich, diverse, and unexpected strands of the city’s past. From female impersonators of the early 1900s to queer life in derelict spaces during the 1960s and finally, gay and lesbian bar culture of the1970s and beyond, the hidden threads of San Antonio’s history reveal themselves. In this presentation, LGBTQ Historian Melissa Gohlke explores these hidden histories and stitches together an alternative interpretation of the city’s historical narrative by examining a wealth of primary sources found in archives and personal collections.
About the speaker:
Melissa Gohlke is an urban historian who specializes in San Antonio LGBTQ+ history. For over a decade, Gohlke has been researching queer history in San Antonio and South Texas and sharing her passion for this history through extensive outreach activities such as presentations, media interactions, exhibits, and written work. Gohlke is the Assistant Archivist for UTSA Libraries Special Collections.
About the VRA:
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: Mark Pompelia
Material Order is an academic consortium of material sample collections (including wood, metal, glass, ceramic, polymers, plastics, textiles, bio-materials, etc.—any material that might be used in or considered for art, architecture, and design disciplines) founded by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design and now comprising several more institutions in the US. It provides a community-based approach to management and access to material collections utilizing and developing standards and best practices. Material Order created the Materials Profile that serves as a shared cataloging tool on the LYRASIS CollectionSpace platform and can be further developed as the different needs of consortium members are identified. Open Web searching across all collections occurs via a front-end discovery portal built with Wordpress at materialorder.org.
The Material Order project was born from the acknowledgment that resource sharing and collaborative catalogs are the most promising approach to exploration and implementation. It was always the intent, now actualized, for partner institutions with different mission and scope to compel the project to consider and accommodate criteria such as material health ecologies, fabrication possibilities, and overlap into adjacent fields such as engineering and archeology. Thus, Material Order represents not just items on a shelf but a knowledge-base of compositions, uses, forms, and properties. No longer in its infancy, Material Order provides a shared and adaptable framework for managing collections across the consortium and optimal facilitation of materials-based research and exploration for art, architecture, and design applications.
VRA 2023 New Frontiers in Visual Resources session. Presenters: Meghan Rubenstein and Kate Leonard
The Art Department at Colorado College is piloting a Personal Archiving program in select undergraduate studio courses that combines visual and digital literacy instruction with personal reflection and professional development. Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, and Kate Leonard, Professor of Art, will discuss the drive behind this initiative to develop student competencies within a liberal arts setting. We will share our ongoing iterative process as well as select student activities and learning outcomes that may be adopted to various institutions.
VRA 2022 Teaching Visual Literacy session. Presenter: Molly Schoen
Our everyday lives are more saturated in images and videos than any other time in human history. This fact alone underscores the need to implement visual literacy skills in all stages of education, from pre-K to post-grad. Learning how to read images with critical, analytical eyes is crucial to understanding the world around us as we see it represented in the news, social media, advertisements, etc. New technologies have exasperated this already urgent need for visual literacy education. Synthetic media, deepfakes, APIs, bot farms, and other forms of artificial intelligence have many innovative uses, but bad actors also use them to fan the flames of disinformation. We have seen the grave consequences from this age of disinformation, from undermining elections to attempts to delegitimize science and doctors, undoubtedly raising the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. What do we need to know about these new forms of altered images made by artificial intelligence? How do we discern between real, human-made content versus fakes made by computers, which are becoming more and more difficult to discern? This paper aims to raise awareness of how new forms of visual media can manipulate and deceive the viewer. Audience participants will learn how to empower themselves and their peers into being more savvy consumers of visual materials by understanding the basics of AI and recognizing the characteristics of faked media.
VRA 2022 Individual Papers Session. Presenter: Malia Van Heukelem
This case study of a large artist archive at a medium sized academic research library will connect the success of the artist serving as his own archivist and the collection's broad research appeal locally, nationally and internationally. Like many artists, there is so much more than his own work represented. There is correspondence, fine art prints, ephemera of other artists and writers hidden in the collection. The foundation of organization is in place; now the focus is on creating online access points through finding aids and image collections. The presentation will explore the use of ArchivesSpace, Omeka, and other software to increase access. It will also demonstrate how a solo archivist can leverage interns, student assistants, and volunteers for collections management projects that benefit both the institutional priorities and desired learning outcomes. This talk will delve into the challenges of 20th century visual resource collections such as copyright and engagement with donors. Featuring a local artist has brought other art and architecture collections to the library, without clear boundaries which has led to questions of sustainability, who and what is collected. There is definitely a need to balance the historical record and yet, there are already more archival collections accessioned than can be responsibly managed by one person. The primary collection does include works by women and artists of color, yet much descriptive work remains to forefront the diversity contained within. As an archivist and librarian at a public university, there are many competing demands for collections management, support of researchers, and instruction plus the added interest for exhibition loans and the desire for other artists and architects to be represented. This artist archive is both interesting and complex.
This document summarizes an art history course titled "Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History" taught at Oklahoma State University. The course examines major developments in American art across different media from European contact through the mid-20th century. As part of the course, students are divided into groups to create digital exhibitions cataloging artworks from university newspaper archives between certain years. Students must include contextual information and link their entries to related articles. Their entries and a reflective essay are graded individually based on their work plan. The course introduces the concept of "critical cataloging" to bring social justice perspectives to archival and metadata work.
VRA 2022 session. Organizer/Moderator: Allan T. Kohl. Speakers: Virginia (Macie) Hall, Christina Updike, Marcia Focht, Rebecca Moss, Steven Kowalik, Jenni Rodda
During the past year, the “Great Resignation” (aka. The “Big Quit”) has roiled the world of employment nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused job losses among our membership. While many institutions and individuals now hope for a “return to normal,” others anticipate that the past two years mark a watershed necessitating further transformational changes in the years ahead. These larger employment trends have come on top of quantum shifts in the visual resources field itself, as traditional tasks give way to new responsibilities, and siloed image collections are replaced by interdisciplinary projects.
For several years, our annual conferences have featured the perspectives of newer professionals in “Stories from the Start.” Looking at the opposite ends of their career arcs, this session brings together the perspectives and experiences of two pre-pandemic retirees, two of our members who made their decisions to retire during the past year, and two currently active professionals whose retirements are pending in the near future. When and why did they make their decisions to retire? What was/is the actual process? Concerns? What comes next after we leave our offices for the last time?
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenters: Melissa Becher and Samuel Sadow
In 2019, the art history program at American University gave its masters students a new option for the capstone project that is the culmination of the degree: create a digital project on an art historical topic using Omeka S or Wordpress. Initially, only a single student chose to complete a digital capstone over a traditional thesis, but within two years there was near parity between the two options, meaning seven digital capstones for the 2021 cohort. To support these projects, a close partnership quickly developed between the University’s library, the visual resources center, and the archives. This session covers how three campus units coordinate that support for these innovative digital humanities projects, including administration of the platforms, instruction, technical support, preservation, and access to the final projects. The session will also showcase examples of student work to demonstrate the variety and creativity of projects that can be accomplished using these platforms, as well as their contributions to the field of art history. The outcome of this initiative is clear: the best of digital humanities, weaving design and technology with rigorous art historical research, and finished projects that have already resulted in successful job applications in the field.
VRA 2022 Material Objects and Special Collections session. Presenters: Allan T. Kohl and Jackie Spafford
Materials-based collections represent a challenging new mode of information management in terms of subject specialization, physical description and accommodation, and institutional mission. Building upon the successful introductory meeting of this Group in Los Angeles at the 2019 Conference, the goal of this SIG is to provide a forum for open discussion of Material and Object Collections and their relationship to various library/visual resources tasks. The Material and Object Collections SIG provides an opportunity for individuals working with a variety of materials and objects collections – including those that support art and art history courses, those that support architecture and design courses, and those in cultural heritage organizations – to share ideas, issues, and potential solutions in regard to tasks similar to common library/visual resources activities (including cataloging, documentation, staffing, outreach), as well as more specialized concerns relating to the management of physical objects (security, storage and retrieval, the design of user spaces, etc.).
By continuing to offer an opportunity for participants to share brief introductions and profiles of their collections, we hope to encourage networking and exchange information about sources for specialized items; to display sample items and share surplus samples with other collections; and to provide examples of successful solutions to typical problems. Our long-range goal is to maintain an ongoing support group that can be of particular benefit to those professionals who are in the beginning stages of building or organizing physical collections.
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Moderator: Otto Luna
Exploration of visualization tools in the Digital Humanities/Digital Art History realm. Presenter: Catherine Adams
Assessing the use of Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) by Art Historians and Archaeologists. Presenter: Kayla Olson
Supporting Art History Students’ Digital Projects at American University. Presenters: Samuel Sadow and Melissa Becher
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenter: Kayla Olson
This paper discusses a study (completed in the spring of 2021) which explores how common the use of Qualitative Data Analysis software (QDAS) is among two kinds of object-based researchers: art historians and archaeologists. Surveys were disseminated in a snowball fashion and contained open and closed questions. The questions sought to give participants a platform to describe if, why, and how they use programs like Atlas.ti, NVivo, Dedoose, and MAXQDA throughout their research process. While not QDAS, the image management application Tropy was also included. The author hopes that the anonymized responses will prompt discussion among professionals in academic librarianship and visual resources management about the possible impact of these digital tools on researchers in these disciplines. The question remains on whether researchers in art and material culture disciplines would benefit more from QDAS if participants were aware of: 1) Their existence and 2) Their ability to help organize artifact data and to assist in performing image-based analysis.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenter: Ann M. Graf, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
In the field of information science, we strive to provide access to information through the most efficient means possible. This is often done through the use of controlled vocabularies for description of subjects, and, in the case of art objects, for the identification of styles, processes, materials, and types. My research has examined the sufficiency of controlled vocabularies such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) for description of graffiti art processes and products. This research is evolving as the AAT is responding to warrant for a broader set of terms to represent outsider art communities such as the graffiti art community. The methods used to study terminological warrant by examining the language of the graffiti art community are helpful to give voice to artists who work outside the traditional art institution, allowing the way that they talk about their work and how they describe it to become part of the common discourse. It is hoped that this research will inspire others who design and supplement controlled vocabularies for use in the arts to give priority in descriptive practice to those who have been historically underrepresented or made invisible by default use of terminology that does not speak to their experiences.
VRA 2022 Session. Presenter: Douglas Peterson
In 2021, the National Archives of Estonia engaged Digital Transitions’ Service division, Pixel Acuity, to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to analyze part of its historic record. The objective was to use this tool to enhance their collection with descriptive metadata that identified persons of interest in a collection of over 8,000 photographic glass plate negatives, a task that would ordinarily take years of human labor. In this presentation, we discuss our approach to accurately detecting and identifying human subjects in transmissive media, our initial findings using commercially available AI models, and the subsequent refinements made to our workflow to generate the most accurate metadata. In addition to working with commercially available AI models, we developed strategies for validation of AI-generated results without additional human supervision, and explored the benefits of building bespoke, heritage-specific AI models. By combining all of these tools, we developed a highly customized solution that greatly expedited accurate metadata generation with minimal human oversight, operated efficiently on large collections, and supported discovery of novel content within the archive.
VRA 2022 Community Building Session. Presenter: Dacia Metes
Queens Memory is an ongoing community archiving program that engages with our local communities in our two-fold mission to (1) push local history collections out to the public through programming and online resources, and (2) pull new materials into our collections from the diverse communities of Queens, NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to close our buildings, cease all in-person work and programming and shift our work to the virtual world. Our team quickly modified our processing workflow and asset tracking with the high volume of crowd-sourced donations coming through new online submission forms, set up in a rapid response to capture the stories coming from the pandemic’s first epicenter in the U.S. In my proposed conference session, I will discuss how we planned and managed the shift to fully online collection development. I will talk about our virtual outreach efforts to engage with the community and get them to contribute their materials, and how we developed the online tools and processes that allowed us to collect photographs, oral history interviews and other audio/visual materials, while also capturing the necessary metadata and consent forms. New internal communications channels, roles for volunteers, and triage processing for publication resulted from these efforts and are now essential parts of the team’s practices.
The document summarizes a workshop on accessibility guidance for digital cultural heritage collections. The workshop consists of two hours which include presentations on accessibility requirements and workflow strategies, a breakout activity where participants practice creating accessible descriptions for images, and a wrap-up discussion. The presentations cover topics such as common barriers to accessibility, guidelines for making images, video, audio and documents accessible, and best practices for incorporating accessibility into workflows. The breakout activity has participants work in groups to write alt-text and accessibility descriptions for sample images from online collections.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Beyond Degrees - Empowering the Workforce in the Context of Skills-First.pptxEduSkills OECD
Iván Bornacelly, Policy Analyst at the OECD Centre for Skills, OECD, presents at the webinar 'Tackling job market gaps with a skills-first approach' on 12 June 2024
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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