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Conference 2009 Session Descriptions
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The Missing Link: Microsoft Tips & Tricks
Get some Ah-Ha! moments in this hands-on computer session that shares tips on how to make the most of Microsoft Windows and Office 2007 programs. Did you know you can use the wheel on your mouse to magnify the text on your screen? Have you customized your Office toolbar to avoid extra clicks? How about saving time by making changes to all your slides using PowerPoint’s Master View? Learn tips for Word, Excel, and Outlook too. Space in this workshop will be limited by the number of computers available, so register early!
Presentation by Donna Lummis, Information Technology
Protecting your identity in the Digital Age: Best practices
The World Wide Web, e-mail and the new Web 2.0 technologies are great conveniences to us all. Most of us like to access the information or get things done with the click of the mouse. However, we must be cautious and protect ourselves from those who are constantly trying to access our confidential information. From securing wireless networks to phishing e-mail scams to social engineering to using anti-virus software, we will use this discussion-based session to present some ways to make your online browsing safer, as well as answer any related questions from the participants.
Presentation by Nik Talati and Stan Patterson, Information Technology
Goucher College is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of the campus. A significant portion of the carbon emissions from Goucher are directly related to Information Technology resources. As an IT organization, we are doing many things to reduce the energy used and electronic waste produced from computers, printers, and electronics. The first part of this presentation will discuss some of these things that IT is doing to “Go Green” including server virtualization, desktop power management, and eCycling. The second part of this presentation will focus on what faculty and staff can do to help IT in these efforts to make the world a cleaner place. These topics will apply to both while at work and at home.
Presentation by Reid Guanti , Information Technology
This session will explain the differences between blogs and wikis and will introduce resources available on campus to create them. You will learn about different technologies used to create weblogs, or blogs, and wikis, and how they can be used for your personal or professional use. WordPress blogs will be discussed, as well as tools for creating blogs and wikis within the Blackboard environment. Our panelists will also discuss other blog and wiki websites such as Blogger, LiveJournal, and Wikipedia.
Presentation by John Perrelli, Office of Communications, and Sarah Kiley , Information Technology
GC Says Follow Me on Twitter: The Fun of Using Social Networking Sites
Do you have an FB account? Ever twitted? Just completely and totally confused? Join the presenters for an informative and interactive conversation on utilizing social networking sites with students. The presenters will discuss how to create a profile, the purposes of the sites, updates to make and when to make them, the time it takes to work with students on these sites, when networking goes bad, and who puts up what and when.
Presentation by Kia Kuresman and Lamar Hylton, Office of Student Engagement
Image & Video Sharing on the Web: Applications for Teaching & Learning
The web can oftentimes seem like an infinite repository of information and media. It can be difficult to weed out the informative and useful from the biased or merely entertaining content. This presentation will focus on how to make use of the recent influx of platforms for image and video sharing in an educational context -- both for finding, organizing and distributing meaningful content, as well as fostering new ways of thinking about visual information.
Presentation by Allison Jai O’Dell, Julia Rogers Library
A Conversation About Citation Managers
Citation management software may be one of the greatest boons to research since the invention of writing. Citation managers allow researchers to capture citations and associated material as they work, to annotate this material, to easily store and organize it, and to automatically format bibliographies. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), like many areas of technology, this field has been expanding out of control. Citation managers have been multiplying like rabbits, with new products regularly eclipsing old. RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, ProCite, Mendeley, Wikindx, JabRef, and on and on: how do you pick the one that is best for your work, and that will offer some stability over time? This program will try to help. It will not be a formal presentation, since it is doubtful whether any one person fully understands this field. Rather, researchers of all types (professors, students, independent researchers, people pursuing casual interests), and with varying degrees of experience (from the expert user to the complete novice), are invited to come together and share their experiences with various products, ask each other questions, and hopefully help each other.
Presentation by Jim Huff, Julia Rogers Library
Need a helping hand? Are you using social networking tools? Maybe you need a widget! Widgets are small computer applications that put information at your fingertips. Whether you need the weather report or the latest status updates from Facebook, there’s a widget to the rescue! This session will focus on helper applications, browser extensions, and other ways to manage the information you need when you need it.
Presentation by Donna Lummis and Sarah Kiley, Information Technology