Here is an infographic I was recently sent on the future of libraries created by Open-Site.org
The Future of Libraries [infographic]
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Call for Applications — Early Career Workshop @ CSCL 2013
I just got this call for applications in my email and figured I would share it with others:
Call for Applications — Early Career Workshop @ CSCL 2013
The Early-Career Workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for CSCL and learning sciences researchers early in their careers to discuss their own research, to discuss early-career challenges with peers and senior mentors and to initiate international networks related to their research topics. Applications are invited from individuals in a variety of early career positions, such as, tenure track, post-doc, private sector or similar.
Overview
The workshop will run for a day and a half during the pre-conference events. Activities will include panels on topics such as negotiating career paths (including careers in museums, research institutes, NGOs, or the private sector), publishing and funding. A significant amount of time will be devoted to small group interactions where early career participants can present their research and receive feedback from peers and mentors. There will also be opportunities for informal interactions with peers and mentors on an impromptu basis and as part of organized social events. Mentors and panelists are mid-career and senior scholars who are active in the CSCL and ISLS
community.
A detailed schedule will be published about a month or so prior to the event.
For more information, check out: http://www.isls.org/cscl2013/ECW%20CSCL2013%20CFP.pdf
The Need to Study Infographics… Anyone Interested in Collaborating???
I consider myself a researcher of sorts. And as a researcher, I am constantly thinking about my next study. In fact, I have a google doc that lists ideas for dozens of future research projects and/or papers. But recently I began wondering… Why do I keep all of my ideas to myself? What would happen if I started to blog about them? Could I find colleagues to collaborate on some of them? So here goes…
The need to study infographics!
I love infographics! I am mean… I really love infographics!!! My love for infographics led me to post a few here or there on my blog. Over time, I somehow began being identified as a lover of infographics. I get at least one email a week from someone asking me to post an infographic on my site. As I see more and more infographics, I have begun to wonder,
- How accurate are infographics?
- Are people more likely to believe a message that is presented as an infographic vs. text alone?
- Do people ever fact check infographics?
- Do infographics ever use more than one source?
- Are people more likely to remember facts presented as an infographic vs. text alone?
- How are infographics used to persuade or manipulate people?
- Are academics creating infographics?
- Could conference “posters” be created in an infographic form?
Questions like these could be investigated in a number of ways. For instance, infographics could be purposely sampled from a list like “20 Great Infographics of 2012” or randomly sampled from a list like “Cool Infographics Gallery” and analyzed. At the same time, a survey could be developed and adminstered to a group to investigate their perceptions of infographics. Or an experiment could be conducted where one group is presented information as an infographic and another group is presented the same information in another format.
The bottom line is this, more and more infographics are being created each day and somebody should be investigating questions like the one’s I listed above.
Let me know if you are interested in collaborating on a project like this in the spring of 2013!
Presentation 3.0 ??? Storytelling 3.0 ???
I have been interested in instructional communication and how academics present for some time. My interest began a number of years ago with my love for storytelling and hate for PowerPoint (or should I say the poor use of PowerPoint).
[Note: See below for related works]
I recently came across this video by Hans Rosling. I love his use of technology to tell this story. I was struck by his use of story, inflection, technology… to name a few things. I kept thinking about how this builds on what “weather men” have been doing for years but of course it does so much more.
So is this a new form of presenting? Is this a new form of storytelling? Not necessarily. And it certainly isn’t realistic (at least today) for the common person to tell stories like this. But it is certainly worth a look and serves as some inspiration to do more with technology, storytelling, and presenting!!!
Related Work
