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Month: March 2007 (Page 3 of 4)

Events coming up – Sutor, intellagirl, Privacy and Security and More

This Wednesday March 14 at 3 pm, IBM VP for Open Source Bob Sutor in Murphey Hall.

Monday March 26 at 11, intellagirl.

Thursday March 29 at noon:30, ASIST panel (includes me) on “THIS CONVERSATION IS BEING BLOGGED: Our lives, online, all the time, in the trend towards lifelogging” in Wilson Library.

Wednesday April 4 at 7 pm, RTP 2.0 at Tyler’s in Durham.

Saturday April 14 from 1 pm to 5 pm, Privacy and Security panels.

Security and Liberty Forum – April 14 (update)

What: Security and Liberty Forum
When: Saturday, April 14 1-5 p.m.
Where: Sitterson Hall on the UNC Campus (Parking info)

Free Registration here

Confirmed Speakers

Sponsors: Privacy and Technology Committee of the N.C. ACLU; Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill; ibiblio.org, UNC-Chapel Hill; Electronic Privacy Information Center (epic.org); Information Science and Information Studies, Duke University; The School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

In and of the Times

The time changed today — early to Daylight Savings and the New York Times features articles to remember to read today or later:

Leaving the Weave

I’ve been an owner of Weaver Street Market at Carr Mill Mall since the beginning (owner number under 275), but lately I’ve been disappointed in their landlord’s management.

First Nathan Millian banned dancing and in specific our favorite Dancing Man. Then he went wilder and tried to shutdown all “unauthorized performance.”

Nathan don’t ‘low no guitar pickin’ ’round here! Nathan don’t ‘low no hulahoopin’ ’round here! etc.

Luckily Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton and Alderman Dan Coleman stepped in and negotiated with the owner of Carr Mill and Nathan. The owner (forget name here) said he wanted (according to Coleman) “Carr Mill to be welcoming to the community.”

So far so good.

Until this morning when these signs showed up on the Weaver Street lawn between the picnic tables and the band performance area — amongst other places — as Ruby and others at OP have noticed. Pictures at OP also.

Bye, Nathan. No need for me to shop there. And the Weave will have two other locations soon…

intellagirl to UNC – March 29

Who: Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins
What: “Creating Authentic and Engaging Community-Oriented Learning Spaces: Using Second Life in Higher Education Classrooms.”
When: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Monday, March 26, 2007
Where: Room 205, Undergraduate Library
Space is limited to 50 attendees; all food and drink are absolutely forbidden in the room

About: Second Life Education Research
More Research

Yet more: Educators have much to compete with these days. How can we keep students engaged in learning when they have pockets filled with iPods, phones equipped with instant messenger and streaming video, and a high-tech laptop sitting on their desk? The answer is to not compete but rather to utilize the technologies students are already using into the learning environment. Second Life is a unique space that brings audio, video, 3-D immersive spaces, and social networking into one lively and creative space. Using Second Life for higher education allows educators to engage students in authentic collaborative learning that appeals to a wide variety of learning styles and personality types. This workshop will walk participants through the basic mechanics of Second Life and the pedagogical approaches helpful for making the most of this immersive learning space.

(Thanks, Fred)

UPDATE – Bob Sutor IBM Open Source VP 3/14 at 3 pm

Bob SutorBob in 2L
Who: Bob Sutor, IBM Vice President for Open Source and Open Standards
When: 3 pm Wednesday, March 14
Where: 116 Murphey Hall UNC-Chapel Hill
Parking and Directions: Campus Pay Lots and Directions, Visitor’s Map, J-school includes closeby parking, More detailed campus map.
What: “Open Source and Standards — Catalysts for Innovation and New Business”
a public talk by and conversation with Bob about IBM and Open Source and Open Standards

More: Bob is involved in the Open Document Format standard, Eclipse and WebSphere, Second Life, The IBM Open Patents Pledge and more. See his very active personal blog.

Sponsors: ibiblio.org, School of Information and Library Science, Carolina Open Source Initiative, IBM Centers for Advanced Studies

Tomorrow – Me at the Working Group on Expertise, Science and Democracy

Paul Jones

Sponsor: The Working Group on Expertise, Science and Democracy
When: Thursday March 8, 3:30 p.m.
Where: 118 Hanes Art
Who: Paul Jones, founder of sunsite.unc.edu and director of ibiblio.org
What: “Participatory Digital Libraries – Past and Futures; the ibiblio trends”

Paul Jones, founder of sunsite.unc.edu and director of ibiblio.org, will present “Participatory Digital Libraries – Past and Futures; the ibiblio trends,” in which he will talk about experiences and futures of Contribtor-run Digital Libraries and repositories, focusing on the ibiblio experience.

This will be an update of his paper “Open (source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries.” Communications of the ACM. Volume 44 , Issue 5 (May 2001).[PDF]

Also you can hit my wiki and participate in the talk in advance.

If you prefer the Japanese language version of the ACM paper, here it is [PDF].

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