Comments for THATCamp Historically Black Colleges and Universities 2012

Comment on Kenja McCray: Reflections on THATCamp HBCU 2012 by Kenja McCray

Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:45:00 +0000

Tdurant- I hope the field of digital humanities gains more momentum at HBCUs and PBIs. Stay tuned . . .

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Comment on Kenja McCray: Reflections on THATCamp HBCU 2012 by Tdurant

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:45:00 +0000

I am very glad to hear about HBCUs exploring the digital humanities or digital arts fields. I am an instructional technologist who went to Morehouse but those fields did not exist when I went to school. Now I have a daughter coming up on college age and she doesn’t know what HBC to look at. Course my wife went to Clark so that’s her first choice but we have no idea where to look. I hope programs like this will give some guidance to families looking to send the next generation to HBCUs who want to go into digital arts.

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Comment on WOW! WHAT A GREAT DAY AT THATCamp HBCU!! by Seneca Vaught

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:46:00 +0000

I loved it. I learned so much.

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Comment on Building Digital Bridges to Cross Cultural Divides by Seneca Vaught

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:38:00 +0000

I’m not Sierra Leoneon but I will be sure to ask Mrs. Jarrett the next time I see her.

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Comment on Workshops by Sandra Flowers

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:03:00 +0000

There’s an incredibly rich, large, educational virtual location on Second Life called the Museum of the African American Experience. We (WISE, wiseresources.wordpress.com) have our freshman and sophomore students do research and writing assignments every year based on the museum’s holdings. We’ve also built a slave ship in Second Life that students are powerfully impacted by during their Trans-Atlanta Slave Trade immeresive experience in world history. Will be happy to take you to both venues during the camp.

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Comment on Building Digital Bridges to Cross Cultural Divides by Miller

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0000

wow. My father in law is Joshua Carew, a current candidate for Sierra Leone’s president so I wonder if we are related. I’ll look for your session when I arrive.

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Comment on Workshops by Sandra Flowers

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:50:00 +0000

Nicely developed site! I’ve been visiting your Cotton Club for a couple of years but never went outside, thinking the rest was another sim. The CAU WISE (wiseresources.wordpress.com) program can accommodate Second Life interests in our computer lab, even providing avatars for those without. Also, since WISE has two islands and Instructional Technology Assistants on staff (undergrad WISE students), we can also offer workshops for anyone who’d like to try out building or create an environments that requires no building.

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Comment on Some Details Before the Conference by Sandra Flowers

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Miichelle, you’ve done a fantastic job in organizing this event! Best wishes for a successful camp.

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Comment on Editing Workshop by Darnell

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Yes, this worship would be great if we could do, photoshop or any other image or video editing software.

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Comment on Building Digital Bridges to Cross Cultural Divides by Michelle

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:24:00 +0000

WOW! Awesome project!! I love how this is both digital, and pan-African in it’s scope.

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Comment on Editing Workshop by Michelle

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:59:00 +0000

Do others work with film who can make comments on this? Can we suggest some digital tools (especially free ones!) that are especially good for this? How does digital storytelling fit into our use of technology?

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Comment on Twitter Exchange by Michelle Kassorla

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:22:00 +0000

drkassorla thatcamphbcu

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Comment on Virtual Environments by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:34:00 +0000

The students research, write, and create a final project on WISE Island, a Second Life area owned by CAU WISE.

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Comment on Session Proposal: Making It So that You Can Fake It by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:40:00 +0000

Thank you so much for suggesting this! I think it is an essential part of what we do at an HBCU! 🙂

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Comment on Virtual Environments by Van Dora Williams

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:18:00 +0000

I would love to hear more about the use of Second Life in the classroom Michelle. is there a culminating final project in the virtual world at the end of the semester?

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Comment on Screencasting and Grading by THATCampHBCU

Wed, 30 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

It doesn’t matter what I think! It’s up to all of us to choose!

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Comment on Screencasting and Grading by Van Dora Williams

Tue, 29 May 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Sure. I’m sharing two links that you can review. Thank you for considering my request.

The link below is an example of my comments on a student’s news writing assignment.
www.screencast.com/t/WHdu8dep

The link below is a software tutorial I created for my broadcast writing students. They have to learn Adobe Audition 2.0 and rather than continue to explain how to export an audio file in the proper format, I created this tutorial and made it available on Blackboard for student use.
www.screencast.com/t/XP4Vza6k0x

Please let me know if you have any problems viewing the videos.

Van

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Comment on Apps4Art: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:52:00 +0000

I would like to suggest expanding this topic a bit to discuss ways in which we can design review systems for applications, what you and others have found in your attempts to do this, and if anyone has suggestions for/or would like to share in this discussion regarding their own experiences,

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Comment on Screencasting and Grading by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:06:00 +0000

Can you give us a link so we can check it out?

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Comment on Virtual Environments by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:50:00 +0000

Van,

We use Second Life in the High Tech version of the English class taught at CAU.

Michelle

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Comment on HBCU Digital Commons by Matthew Gold

Tue, 29 May 2012 07:26:00 +0000

This is exciting to see, Michelle. We are planning to release CBox in November. Should your group decide to use it, please let us know. And in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions you might have.

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Comment on Session proposal: Using university library archives and digital collections for student projects by THATCampHBCU

Tue, 29 May 2012 01:59:00 +0000

I love this session proposal! I haven’t used the archives at our amazing library at the level that I should be, and I can’t wait to hear some of the ideas that come out of this session.

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Comment on How to Post Session Proposals by Ingrid Sturgis

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:06:00 +0000

I will not be able to the THATCamp but please consider Howard University’s Social Media conference in the fall.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30
Call for Papers, Workshops, Panels and PostersSocial Media Technology Conference & WorkshopCo-Hosted by Howard University and Bowie State UniversitySeptember 27-28, 2012
Howard University, Washington, D.C.socialmediatechnologyconference.com/

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Comment on Register by Michelle Kassorla

Fri, 25 May 2012 03:13:00 +0000

We can’t wait to see you! Thank you for making the trip to Atlanta to learn and share with us!!

Michelle

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Comment on Register by Michelle Kassorla

Fri, 25 May 2012 03:13:00 +0000

I hope you got registered! We look forward to meeting you! It’s not too late!! Register today!

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Comment on Register by Van Dora Williams

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:19:00 +0000

I am really looking forward to attending this camp. I heard so much about it.

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Comment on How to Post Session Proposals by Please Post Your Proposals!! | THATCamp Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:56:22 +0000

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Comment on Register by Welcome to THATCamp HBCU 2012! | THATCamp Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:20:32 +0000

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Comment on New to THATCamp by Michelle Kassorla

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:00 +0000

We can’t wait to see you! Please feel free to post any session ideas you have for THATCamp HBCU. Anyone who has been accepted can post. We need ideas for sessions that we will vote upon on the first day. Get posting!! 🙂

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Comment on Schedule by MichelleKassorla

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:08:00 +0000

Dear Nathan,

I just posted our workshops (so far) for THATCamp HBCU:

I hope this helps!

–Michelle

Workshops (so far!) at THATCamp HBCU
Posted on May 1, 2012 by Michelle Kassorla
THATCamp Workshops are the heart of any THATCamp (un)Conference. We all love to learn something new, or learn something better.
We are planning to offer Workshops on Thursday and Friday Morning (Please see schedule).
These are the Workshops we have planned so far! If you can teach a workshop, please let us know!! We are adding more every day!

Thursday, June 14

Build a WordPress Website In One Hour or Less!

Learn to build a website with WordPress Blogging software hands-on. This will be held in the computer lab. No coding experience required! A beginners workshop for anyone who wants to build a WordPress Site like the one you are on right now.

Michelle Kassorla is the coordinator of THATCamp HBCU, and a lecturer in Clark Atlanta University’s WISE QEP program. She has been teaching WordPress for three years.

Think Like a Programmer:

Learning LaTex as an Introduction to Programming Syntax

Peter Molnar will walk you through this hands-on workshop in learning LaTex, providing you with all the information you need to create a document and begin thinking like a programmer–with no programming or coding experience required.

Peter Molnar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Clark Atlanta University.

Introduction to Zotero

Making the Teaching of Style Almost Obsolete!

Zotero is a free open-source program created by the Center for History and the New Media at George Mason University (where THATCamp originated!!). It works with Firefox as an add-on, and on Safari and Google Chrome as a stand alone program. It also has an extremely powerful Microsoft Word plug-in which makes teaching style to our students almost obsolete!

Michelle Kassorla is the coordinator of THATCamp HBCU, and a lecturer in Clark Atlanta University’s WISE QEP program. She has been using Zotero for years, and has just started introducing it to all of her students, random people at the computer lab, and anyone she can stop on the street.

Friday, June 15th

Note-able Software

Evernote and Microsoft OneNote

Notebook software can be the best option for an overall organizational tool at a low cost. Chystal Renfro and Mary Axford will introduce the two most common and most powerful notebook software programs, Evernote and Microsoft OneNote.

The discussion will include characteristics to consider when choosing a notebook software application and how to most effectively use them to organize your personal and professional life. We will give a walking tour of both products using real life notebooks which illustrate characteristics such as device compatibility, organizational structure, and note formats.

Crystal Renfro and Mary Axford are subject librarians in the Faculty Engagement Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology Library. Both have an interest in tools to increase academic productivity and workflow, and teach library workshops on these topics. Their upcoming article on notebook software will be published in the May/June 2012 issue of the journal Online.

Google Tools

How We Use the World of Google Tools in our Classrooms

Google Tools are powerful, free, and engaging. This is a session about Google Tools in the Classroom–how we use them, and what we do with them. This session will be moderated, but it is open for sharing and swapping best practices with Google Tools.

Moderated by Vance Ricks, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and hard-core technophile from Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.

Productivity with ideas

Software for Tracking and Transforming

What You’ve Found and Thought

We generate ideas, save articles from journals and databases, take notes at meetings, jot down notes during phone calls, archive emails, have wow! moments during conversations – but how do we keep track of all these ideas? We don’t know which ones will end up being useful, so we tend to save them all.

There is software that can help you take these different kinds of items, combine them, play with them, uncombine them, put them back together differently, and ultimately make sense of them and turn them into new knowledge. This session will cover some different types of software for dealing with these issues. We’ll look at actual databases using examples of these types of software so that you can see typical problems they can address and get a sense of how they work.

Dr. Shields has a PhD in International Relations as well as a Masters’ in Library Science. During her first career, in international development, she worked in organizations ranging from the Peace Corps to the World Bank, and in countries as diverse as Tunisia, Djibouti, and Sri Lanka. She came to Atlanta to work as a librarian in the Carter Center, went on to work for Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, and moved recently to Kennesaw State University. She started looking for “idea management” software in the 1980s when she was writing her dissertation, which was based on semi-structured interviews. The problem of information/knowledge management has gotten steadily worse.

Michelle Kassorla, Coordinator
ThatCamp HBCU
hbcu2012.thatcamp.org
@thatcamphbcu
#thatcamp #hbcu
thatcamphbcu@gmail.com
404-955-3618

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Comment on Schedule by MichelleKassorla

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:32:00 +0000

I have the workshops do far on the home page under the first post, but sessions are determined by the participants at the (un)Conference.

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Comment on Schedule by Nathan Nobis

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:49:00 +0000

Is there somewhere to find out something about the what the content of this event might be? Thank you. Nathan Nobis

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Comment on Register by Lewismi

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:20:00 +0000

I hope I have the chance to attend this exciting program!

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Comment on How to Post Session Proposals by Thatcamphbcu

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:07:00 +0000

If you are registered for THATCamp and you are registered on the site, you may be wondering how exactly to get onto the dashboard of this WordPress blog, right?

First, go down on the right hand side and click “log in.” Use the log in you set up when you registered.

Now go to any post and click “edit.”

This will bring you to the dashboard.

Now go to “Posts” and choose “new.”

Write your post. It is as easy as that! 🙂

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Comment on Workshops by Shane Landrum

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:48:01 +0000

I’m interested in teaching a bootcamp on doing African-American history with digital tools. Please email me to talk about what kinds of material might be useful.

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Comment on Workshops by Bryan Carter

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:26:39 +0000

love the ideas above. How about getting the students involved in programming, role playing and performing within Second Life. This experience ready them for using those skills within other virtual worlds and a different form of social interaction. Using the existing project of Virtual Harlem/Montmartre, they can then focus on “doing things” within the world as opposed to having to create it. Although there may be an opportunity to teach those interested in doing so, how to “build” within virtual environments. I would love to get Virtual Harlem/Montmartre project some HBCU exposure and get students involved somehow.

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Comment on Workshops by Sonya Donaldson

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:48:51 +0000

Jenni, that’s a great idea. I also would like us to consider access on the student side and think about workarounds for them from a pedagogical standpoint. For example, last spring I set up a Gowalla Library trip and some mobile activities for my first-year students, then discovered that a good chunk of them were without smart phones. We came up with some alternatives (mobile Gowalla on their laptops, for example) but it would be helpful to think about access issues from their perspective. Also, given this particular context, what are the challenges for HBCUs in the DH?

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Comment on Workshops by Michelle Kassorla

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:47:43 +0000

Great Idea, Jenni!!

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Comment on Workshops by Jenni Halpin

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:15:24 +0000

I’m new at my HBCU, but one of the themes running through many of my interactions so far has been the belief (expressed by my new colleagues) that our campus is less-well-funded than non-HBCU campuses. Certainly our technological infrastructure is more dated than other that of campuses at which I’ve worked.

This in mind, my suggestion would be to consider a mini-focus on work-arounds: solutions for contexts without data projectors, wireless connections, robust digital course management systems, etc. More pointedly, how do we bring our THATCamp learning to students who may have cell phones but whose only access to a computer is in a minimally supplied lab?

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Comment on Workshops by Michelle Kassorla

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:21:36 +0000

Bootcamp Idea:

How to identify and write HBCU-directed grants.

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Comment on Workshops by Michelle Kassorla

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:19:57 +0000

Here’s an idea for the developer’s challenge:

Create user-friendly app. that highlights the special collections at HBCU libraries.

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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:47 +0000

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