#asist09 "Evaluating technology-, information literacy-, and content-related learning outcomes among undergraduate students..."

I will be presenting another poster at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Vancouver, BC, from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. today. This represents work conducted with several colleagues (Evelyn Daniel, Claudia Gollop, Jane Greenberg, Jacob Kramer-Duffield, Stephen Seiberling, Michael Shoffner, Hill Taylor, Alan Weakley, and David Woodbury) for the Bot 2.0 project, which Jacob presented yesterday.

Evaluating technology-, information literacy-, and content-related learning outcomes among undergraduate students in face-to-face and social networking environments

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Recommended citation:
Edwards, P. M., Daniel, E., Greenberg, J., Kramer-Duffield, J., Taylor, H., Woodbury, D., et al. (2009). Evaluating technology-, information literacy-, and content-related learning outcomes among undergraduate students in face-to-face and social networking environments. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, Vol. 46. Thriving on diversity – Information opportunities in a pluralistic world. Wiley InterScience/American Society for Information Science & Technology. [view poster as a pdf]

#asist09 "Application of literature-enhanced concept mapping to curriculum design: A case study in the domain of Scholarly Communication"

Cassidy Sugimoto and I are presenting this poster at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Vancouver, BC, from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. today. Comments in person or electronically are always welcome.

Application of literature-enhanced concept mapping to curriculum design: A case study in the domain of Scholarly Communication

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Recommended citation:
Sugimoto, C. R., & Edwards, P. M. (2009). Application of literature-enhanced concept mapping to curriculum design: A case study in the domain of Scholarly Communication. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, Vol. 46. Thriving on diversity – Information opportunities in a pluralistic world. Wiley InterScience/American Society for Information Science & Technology. [view poster as a pdf]

"Opportunity knocks: Authors' writing and publishing decisions when manuscripts are solicited" (presentation slides from the 2009 4S annual meeting)

I just finished presenting at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and I've posted the slides from my talk via SlideShare:

Opportunity knocks: Authors' writing and publishing decisions when manuscripts are solicited

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Recommended citation:
Edwards, Phillip M. "Opportunity Knocks: Authors' Writing and Publishing Decisions when Manuscripts are Solicited." Presentation, annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Washington, DC, October 28-November 1, 2009.

Recap of HASTAC/Franklin Humanities Institute reception for Dr. Allison Clark

Yesterday, I drove out to Duke for a HASTAC*/Franklin Humanities Institute-sponsored reception for Dr. Allison Clark (Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Distinguished HASTAC Scholar in Residence). A handful of students from the 2009-2010 cohort of HASTAC Scholars were in attendance as well, and it was a pleasure to hear what other digital media/digital humanities-interested individuals in the Triangle were working on. (I have a few Scholars I'm mentoring this year as well--Laura, Adam, and Matt--and they will be blogging and commenting about various projects for HASTAC throughout the year.) I had several great conversations with people about scholarly communication, Facebook (why do we accept or ignore friend requests?), Twitter (what's the point?), education (with Facebook and/or Twitter), and visualization (specifically, the AlloSphere project at UC-Santa Barbara).

One noteworthy series of events--which was new to me--is the Reading Group Series in preparation for Bruno Latour's residency at Duke this Spring. This series, organized by the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Carolina Lectures in Critical Thought Series, and the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, is running in parallel on the UNC and Duke campuses. I missed the first session--such is life on a large campus with too many interesting opportunities--but am hoping to join in for the next few sessions. These sessions are open to faculty and graduate students on either campus, and given Latour's influence on my thinking and writing, I highly recommend this series.

* HASTAC = Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

UPDATE: Cross-posted to http://www.hastac.org/blogs/pmedward/recap-hastacfranklin-humanities-institute-reception-dr-allison-clark on 09.23.2009

Essay in June/July 2009 ASIST Bulletin

I just noticed that the piece I wrote for the ASIST Bulletin following the 2008 Cretsos Award is now in-"print":

Edwards, P. M. (2009, June/July). Professional responsibility, power, recruitment, and retention of members in the Society. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 35(5): 45-46. Available as pdf or html.

Carolina Course Evaluations from Summer Session II 2009

The results from the Carolina Course Evaluations for the section of INLS 513 (Resource Selection and Evaluation) that I taught during the second Summer Session have been posted. Every group of students is different, of course, but it seems that the structure and approach for the course is "working" for more people. (I suppose this also explains why I haven't written a new post for a long time. It was a summer-of-writing-and-teaching for me, which was a lot of fun but very busy.)

Poster presentation at JCDL 2009

I'll be leaving for Austin, TX, tomorrow afternoon to attend the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), and on Tuesday, I'll be presenting a poster:

Edwards, Phillip M. "Representing Publication and Distribution Practices for Scholarly Materials: A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison." Poster, 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Austin, TX, June 15-19, 2009.

UPDATE / 2009.06.25: The abstract for this poster is also available via the ACM Digital Library.