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ASECS 2010: a few details, a few ideas

“The Digital Eighteenth-Century 2.0″

Below are a few details (and a few ideas) about the 2 ASECS 2010 roundtables we’re organizing under the above title.

2 different sessions, but 1 big conversation: We see these two sessions as one roundtable, and we strongly hope to see all participants at both sessions.

Availability of digital tools: The conference organizers have assured us that each session will have a live Internet connection, an LCD projector, and an audio system. However, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan, just in case.

Online supplements: Posting presentation-related material on this site before, during, and after the conference is strongly encouraged. You might provide screenshots, screencasts, PDFs or other documents.

Length and format of presentations: Each presentation should be no more than 10 minutes. The “Pecha Kucha” format (20 slides X 20 seconds each) is encouraged but not required. (For background on this format and instructions for how to set up your slides, click here.)

Time for questions, discussions, more elaborate demonstrations: After the short roundtable presentations, there will be plenty of time for audience members to ask further questions, to request more detailed demonstrations of certain things, or (perhaps) to talk 1-on-1 with individual roundtable participants if it seems that format would work best.

Post-roundtable gathering: Roundtable participants and audience members are encouraged to arrange to meet afterwards for further discussion, demonstration, and brainstorming. If history is any indication, the conversations will expand to a size larger than the time constraints of each session.

Details of Sessions

Session 67. “The Digital Eighteenth Century 2.0” – I (Roundtable)
Thursday, March 18: 4:15-5:45pm in Alvarado E
Chair: Lisa MARUCA (Wayne State University)
1. Randall CREAM (University of South Carolina): “The Human Voices Project: Semantic Units, Citational Meanings, and Imaginary Texts”
2. Molly O’Hagan HARDY (University of Texas at Austin): “Mapping Collaboration: Eighteenth-Century Textual Production”
3. Laura MANDELL (Miami University, Ohio): “Future plans for 18thConnect and ECCO”
Session 109. “The Digital Eighteenth Century 2.0” – II (Roundtable)
Friday, March 19: 9:45-11:00am in Alvarado E
Chair: George H. WILLIAMS (University of South Carolina, Upstate)
1. Sharon HARROW (Shippensburg University) “Performing 18th-century British Literature:
Facebook & Pedagogy in the Web 2.0 Classroom”
2. Tonya HOWE (Marymount University) “Collaborative Research Tools in the Methodologies Course”
3. Benjamin PAULEY (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker”
4. Adrianne WADEWITZ (Indiana University, Bloomington) “Wikipportunities”

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3 Responses to “ASECS 2010: a few details, a few ideas”

  1. Molly Hardy Says:
    March 13th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    Here are some of the resources that will help others get started with Google Maps and Google Earth:

    1. For beginners, Google offers a number of helpful videos to get you started:

    <http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/tour/>

    2. The University of Texas at Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) hosted a workshop to think through the relationship between mapping and writing instruction. Watch a video from the workshop:

    <http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/using-google-maps-writing-tool>

    3. More recently, the DWRL hosted a workshop dedicated to exploring how Google Earth may be used in the classroom. The video from this workshop is not yet available, but there are a number of useful handouts created from the workshop. You can download them here:

    <http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/event/google-earth-workshop>

    3. Here are a few sample lesson plans using Google Maps:

    <http://instructors.cwrl.utexas.edu/hardy/node/322>
    <http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/your-food-story>
    <http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/google-mapping-lolita>

    4. Here is a sample lesson plans using Google Earth:

    <http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/students/mytexas-google-earth-project>

    5. And if you get hooked, check out these blogs on all things map related:

    <http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/>
    <http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html>
  2. Ben Pauley Says:
    March 16th, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    I wanted to post (belatedly, I fear) a link to a new round of video tutorials for using Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker, with a particular emphasis on a new feature: the Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker bookmarklet.
    Details Friday.

    In the meantime, the new video tutorials can be found here.

    If you’d like to try things out yourself, you can get the new bookmarklet at this location.

    I’m looking forward to a good set of conversations. See everyone in Albuquerque.

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