New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2008 Conference May 19 - 22

 

Wednesday, May 21st

Time  Session Name
9am - 9:50am William McDonald (Department of German)
"Using Internet-Short Texts in Foreign Language Teaching"
facilitator: Valerie Larsen, ASCIT
Brown Science and Engineering Library
10am - 10:50am Norman Oliver (Departments of Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Anthropology)
"Race, Poverty, and Prostate Cancer: A Spatial and Multilevel Analysis."
facilitator: Kelly Johnston, Scholars' Lab
Brown Science and Engineering Library
11am - 11:50am Silvia Blemker (School of Engineering)
a presentation on podcasting in the classroom
facilitator: John Alexander, Teaching+Technology Initiative
Brown Science and Engineering Library
noon - 1:45pm buffet lunch in Newcomb Hall Dining Room:
roundtable discussion topics will include ITC/Library "communities" (Mike McPherson), infrastructure issues for teaching with technology (Brian Balogh), and concerns and opportunities for graduate students in the digital humanities (Bethany Nowviskie)
2 - 2:50pm Glen Bull and Bill Ferster (Curry School of Education)
a presentation on the PrimaryAccess project
facilitator: Valerie Larsen, ASCIT
Brown Science and Engineering Library
3 - 3:50pm Susan Barr and Robert Le Heup with early-adopter faculty
a preview of faculty/advisor self-service features in UVA's new Student System (to debut in early 2009)
facilitator: Stephanie Conley, ITC
Brown Science and Engineering Library
4 - 6pm This event has been cancelled. Plenary lecture and reception, Harrison Small Auditorium:
Ben Fry, "Computational Information Design."
facilitator: Johanna Drucker, English and Media Studies
This event is co-sponsored by the Scholars' Lab and Research Computing Lab

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