Working Together to Promote a Safe & Healthy Campus Community

April 15, 12:15 - 1:45 pm, Livak Room, Davis Center


The tragic events at Virginia Tech, and more recently at Northern Illinois, have had a profound impact on the way colleges and universities are viewing and responding to campus health and safety issues.

This panel presentation, including student, staff and faculty representatives from departments including Police Services, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the office of the Dean of Students and the General Counsel’s office, will examine the ways in which the University of Vermont is responding to these issues here on our campus, and will also consider broader national trends and challenges. The presentation will provide an opportunity to reflect upon the changing roles and responsibilities of faculty and staff, best practices around campus health and safety issues, legal and privacy concerns, and evolving standards and practice around managing high risk campus behavior.

Posted by wendy on March 20, 2008 | | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

The Blackboard Jungle: Navigating Race, Gender and Sexuality in the New Classroom Culture

Blackboard Jungle The Office of Multicultural Affairs is sponsoring this symposium on March 28th and 29th for UVM faculty. This event will address "the challenges that emerge when gender, race and sexuality intersect and shape how students learn and how we teach."

To learn more and register, contact Janet.S.Green@uvm.edu or call 802-656-0856.
Download the program here [PDF].

Posted by inés on February 27, 2008 | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

CFP: Social Linking Track at Hypertext 2008

friendster.gif The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia is the acknowledged venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on linking. The web, the semantic web and the Web 2.0 are all manifestations of the success of the link. ... One of the most exciting recent developments in Web science is the rise of social annotation, by which users can easily markup other authors' resources via collaborative mechanisms such as tagging, filtering, voting, editing, classification, and rating. These social processes lead to the emergence of many types of links between texts, users, concepts, pages, articles, media, and so on. We welcome submissions on design, analysis, and modeling of information systems driven by social linking.

ACM Hypertext 2008 will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 19th-21st 2008 and is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences. The conference is co-located and scheduled directly after ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (http://www.jcdl2008.org/).

Details may be found at http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/home/soclinking.html

Image from Howard Rheingold, Friendster (Beta): Social Network Web of Trust. The Evolution of Reputation, December 26th, 2002. http://www.smartmobs.com/2002/12/26/friendster-beta-social-network-web-of-trust/

Posted by steve on January 30, 2008 | | Comments (1)

Blogging the sabbatical

We were all delighted to see Shirley's (Shirley Gedeon, the CTL's former director) blog about her sabbatical in Bosnia - a lively read and vicarious getaway. Wow, Shirley, you GO.

Posted by inés on January 25, 2008 | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Better: Blog Comments or Peer Review?

Jeffrey Young asks "What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?"

And continues:

"That's the question being posed by an unusual experiment that begins today. It involves a scholar studying video games, a popular academic blog with the playful name Grand Text Auto, a nonprofit group designing blog tools for scholars, and MIT Press."

The article is in today's Chronicle of Higher Ed, titled "Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better." The book to be reviewed is "Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies" by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego.

Mr. Wardrip-Fruin and several colleagues also fun the blog "Grand Text Auto." The blog offers an academic take on interactive fiction and video games, and is read by academics, readers from the video-game industry and video-game players. The plan is to publish parts of the book on the blog and request comments. The publisher, MIT Press, will, simultaneously, have the book peer-reviewed in the traditional way, allowing for "side-by-side comparison of
reviewing old school versus new blog. Mr. Wardrip-Fruin calls the
new method 'blog-based peer review.'"

Complete article at:
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1322n.htm


Posted by hope on January 22, 2008 | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Debate: "Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?"

oxford_union.jpgThe Economist (Economist.Com) is sponsoring a series of debates on the future of education. Each debate topic considers the educational impacts of technology, globalization, and changing nature of social relationships. The third (and final) debate, which runs from from January 15th through January 25th, focuses on "social networking," specifically on the proposition :

Proposition: Social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom. .

The debate is based on an online variant of the Oxford Debate rules - each speaker has three chances to advance his view - an opening statement, a rebuttal, and a final summary. Observers (who must register) may participate, mainly though a discussion with the moderator who will raise relevant points to the debaters. In addition, Observers may also vote for the side of the proposition they most agree with.

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Posted by steve on January 16, 2008 | | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

UVM Member of Educause's Learning Initiative

The University of Vermont is now a member of Educause's Learning Initiative (ElI).

ELI explores the interaction among learners, learning principles and practices, and learning technologies. Membership benefits include reduced rates on ELI events and access to all resources on their web site, including archived web seminars and podcasts.

There are three upcoming events that may interest you:
January 14: Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0 (online event)
January 28 - 30: ELI 2008 Annual Meeting - Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0 (San Antonio, TX)
March 18 - 19: Real World and Technology-Rich: Learning by Doing, Learning in Context (Raleigh, NC)

To access ELI resources and register for events, you will need to set up a member profile that connects you as an UVM affiliate. Go to the the Educause home page and follow the directions in the "Manage your personal profile" (under the "What would you like to do?" section).

We hope that you will explore the resources on the ELI site. If you find these resources valuable and/or are interested in attending an event, please let us know.

Posted by wendy on January 2, 2008 | | Comments (11) | TrackBacks (0)