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Workshops
- Friday morning workshops will be held at the Park Research Center in the building 18 on this map (pdf)
Pick your session(s) – one 10am and one 11am workshop – and add your name to them by editing this wiki page. Please use numbers, up to 50 per session. From Radisson, use hotel shuttles or the SuperShuttle to get there.
Session 1 – 10am-11am
- Blogging 101 – Tara Richerson (science_goddess)
Description: Learn how to set up a blog; create and publish posts with text, audio, and video; personalize settings; and connect your blog with a larger community. Discuss and ask questions here
1. Elia Ben-Ari
2. Jennifer Montague
3. Julia Soplop
4. Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic
5. Catharine Zivkovic
6 Lyndell Bade (lyndellmbade)
7 Phil Manning
8 Scott Huler
9. Rick Weddle
10. Andrea Daniel
11. Doug Johnston
12.Alice Lockhart
- Blogging 102 – Dave Munger
Description: Do you already have a blog or some HTML/web design experience? This session will skip the basic stuff and move on to the more challenging issues involved in setting up a blog, interacting with your readers, and building a wider readership. Discuss and ask questions here.
1. kubke
2. Steve Pogonowski (f1000)
3. Gary Pattillo (GPattillo)
4 Travis Saunders
5 Peter Janiszewski
6 Kate Porter
7 Gloria Lloyd (glorialloyd)
8. Mary Spiro
9. Carmen Drahl (carmendrahl)
10. Cynthia Allen
11. Allison Bland
12. Kerstin Hoppenhaus
13. Andre Blackman
14. Tyler Dukes (mtdukes)
15. Leah Gordon (simpleelovlee)
16. Alla Katsnelson
17. Karyn Hede
18. Tamara Krinsky (tamarakrinsky)
19. Fenella Saunders
20. Catherine Clabby
21. Cara Rousseau
22. Princess Ojiaku
23. Ben Young Landis (younglandis)
24. Rob Gluck
25. Annie Crawley
26. Sonia Stephens
27. Christine Ottery
28. Rhitu Chatterjee
29. Patric Lane
30. David Butterfield
31. Walter Jessen
32. Jessica Riccò
33. Denise Young
34. Donna Krupa
35. Mike Taffe
36. John McKay
37. Samir Arora
38. Marla Vacek Broadfoot
39. Ed Yong
40. Henry Gee
41. Connie St Louis
42. Elsa Youngsteadt
43. Christian Rapp
44. Sam Krishna
45. Jason Robertshaw
- Make your own social networking site with Drupal – Sol Lederman
Description: I’ll be leading a Friday morning workshop on Drupal. I’ll have 60 minutes to teach something live and this workshop can be interactive (i.e. bring your laptop and do something fun.) Help shape the workshop. What would you like to learn? Would you like to create a Drupal site? Would you like to customize one? Please share ideas.
1. Allie Wilkinson (@loveofscience)
2. Bora Zivkovic – I am known for being a Drupal-hater, but I am willing to be persuaded otherwise ;-)
3. Hilary Maybaum (iescience) – I’m a Drupal neophyte and need help creating my entire site.
4. Bill Cannon
5. David Kroll – total n00b but have heard it could be very useful for my educational & professional needs
6. Janet Stemwedel – also a total n00b
7. Sandra Porter – I’ve been setting up a Drupal site but want to learn more.
8. Stephanie Willen Brown (CogSciLibrarian) – will be using Drupal to redesign my library’s web site and it’s Gr33k to me!
9. Simon Frantz — I’m a total n00b but I’m interested in the possibilities of Drupal on our conference website
10. L P Ringland
11. Anna Lena Phillips
12. Beatrice Lugger – intersted in tools for social networking – Drupal n00b
13 Larry Boles – Very limited Drupal use but foresee need for more skillz
14. danica radovanovic
15. Sarah Crespi (last minute switch, no experience with Drupal)
- Repositories for Fun and Profit – Dorothea Salo
Description: Why are my librarians bothering me with all this repository nonsense? What’s a repository, and how is it different from a website? What can a repository do for me? Why should I bother with them? Does anybody use them? What’s all this about metadata, anyway? Find out from a real live repository librarian! Discuss and ask questions here.
1. Steve Koch
2. Molly Keener
3. Bonnie Swoger
4 Hope Leman
5. Bill Hooker
6. Nancy Shepherd
7. Pawel Szczesny (late signup)
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Session 2 – 11am-12pm
- Paint your blog images using a digital tablet – Glendon Mellow
Description: Get a chance to test out a digital tablet, and see why it’s like having an entire art supply store on your computer. Beginning with tutorials on Glendon’s blog before the conference, we’ll try using Gimp, ArtRage & Photoshop in conjunction with a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet to heighten the impact of an image using this easy and versatile input device. Get your homework assignments and ask questions here.
1. Bora Zivkovic
2 Janet Stemwedel
3 Evelyn Lynge
4 Ben Young Landis (younglandis)
5 John McKay
6 Allie Wilkinson
- Storyboarding your science video and posting it online – Mary Spiro
Description: Have you got a science story to tell? There’s a lot of planning that needs to be done before the cameras start rolling. Mary will offer tips to newbie and wannabe science film makers. Discuss and ask questions here.
1 Steve Pogonowski (f1000)
2 Jason Robertshaw – (Sorry Glendon, wish I could do your workshop too.)
3 Travis Saunders
4 Jennifer Montague
5 Hilary Maybaum
6 Simon Frantz
7 Dorothea Salo
8. Sarah Crespi
9 Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic
10 Carmen Drahl (carmendrahl)
11 Allison Bland
12 Tyler Dukes (mtdukes)
13 Maryn McKenna
14 Karyn Hede
15. Tamara Krinsky (tamarakrinsky)
16. Steve Koch (probably)
17. L P Ringland
18. Bill Cannon
19. Stephanie Willen Brown (CogSciLibrarian)
20. Allyson Bennett
21. Lyndell Bade (lyndellmbade)
22. Christine Ottery
23. Patric Lane
24. Natalie Villalobos
25. Phil Manning
26. Donna Krupa
27. Maria-Jose Vinas
28. Connie St Louis
- Social media for beginners – Danica Radovanovic
Description: Get started on social media: how to use Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Flickr, etc. the smart way, for social networking, science collaborating, to find other scientists there and interact. Then use these tools over the next two days to connect with others at the conference, to report from the conference and expand your circle of online scientific friends.
All you need is to bring yourself and your laptop. Discuss and ask questions here.
1 Rob Gluck
2 Hope Leman
3 Diana Gitig
4 Cynthia Allen
5 Alla Katsnelson
6 Catharine Zivkovic
7 Sonia Stephens
8 David Butterfield
9 Denise Young
10 Marla Vacek Broadfoot
11 Julia Soplop
12. Elsa Youngsteadt
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- Podcasting 101 – Pal MD
Description: learn the basics of podcasting including how to record and publish a simple podcast. Then try to put your new skills to use during the rest of the conference. Discuss and ask questions here.
1. Elia Ben-Ari
2. kubke
3. Gary Pattillo (GPattillo)
4. Peter Janiszewski
5. Kate Porter
6. Kerstin Hoppenhaus
7. Henry Gee (replaces David Kroll)
8. Sol Lederman
9. DeLene Beeland
10. Christina Pikas
11 Nancy Shepherd
12. Fenella Saunders
13. Cara Rousseau
14. Tina Valdecanas
15. Princess Ojiaku
16. Ashley Sue Allen
18. Annie Crawley
19. Anna Lena Phillips
20. Phil Manning
21. Leah Gordon (simpleelovlee)
22. Scott Huler
23. Doug Johnston
24. Jessica Riccò
25. Mike Taffe
26. Alice Lockhart
27. PZ Myers
28. Larry Boles
29. Ed Yong
30. Beatrice Lugger
31. Christian Rapp
32. Lydia Anderson
