Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time: 11 AM (PST), 2 PM (EST)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Faculty Focus Report 657
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Faculty Focus Report 657
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CNI...Coalition for Networked Information
CNI's Program and Projects
CNI's Program is structured around three central themes:
- Developing and Managing Networked Information Content
- Transforming Organizations, Professions, and Individuals
- Building Technology, Standards, and Infrastructure
- share knowledge about architectures and standards for networked information
- improve scholarly communication
- study the economics of networked information
- advance Internet technology and infrastructure
- enhance teaching and learning
- understand the institutional and professional implications of the networked environment
- expand government information on the Internet
How Do Authors Write? A Lecture Series (Material Online) from Stanford University
The content begins here with a text introduction.
What is the secret to great writing? How do writers, both creative and non-creative, organize and convey their thoughts? How do they actually work? Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director of Stanford’s Hume Writing Center for Honors and Advanced Writing is in a better position than most to answer these questions.
For the past eight years, Obenzinger has been coordinating the “How I Write” speaker series. Each quarter Obenzinger invites someone who writes, including all types of experienced writers in all sorts of genres and forms, to share their writing style, habits, pleasures and pains with an audience. Over the years, Obenzinger has heard it all, from a scientist who quotes Shakespeare in research articles to a novelist who only writes while wearing her favorite cowboy hat. As peculiar as some of these quirks may sound, Obenzinger has discovered that there are all kinds of ways to write, and he shares this mantra with the undergraduates who turn to him for assistance when tackling, what for many is their first long-form writing project, their honors theses.
In addition to fiction writers, writers from a wide range of fields, including political science, engineering, poetry and human biology have taken part in “How I Write” events. Past guests have included Stanford President John Hennessey, English professor and director of American Studies Shelley Fisher Fishkin and political science professor Terry Karl. Other speakers have included scientists such as Richard Zare and computer scientist Eric Roberts
Audio or video of about 20 presentations are available (free) via the Stanford Tunes site that is accessible here.
Source: Stanford Knowledgebase / Inside the Humanities
FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
This is a fantastic site that “makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.”
The site is extremely well-organized and easy to search. Choose a topic from the subject list and find great information about everything ranging from scientists, countries of the world, history, and jazz to ethnic studies and literature.
Now Available (Free Access): ebrary’s Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center
http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_Disaster.pdf
Now available and permanently free to access and use.
The ebrary Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center features “hundreds” of government documents “related to natural disasters and extreme weather.”
Access to the material is available at:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/disaster/home.action
“While government agencies house some of the world’s most pertinent information, it is not always easy to search and find the information you need online, especially across multiple websites. Additionally, downloading PDFs, a format used by many government and other agencies for their most important documents, can be extremely cumbersome and frustrating,” said Kevin Sayar, President of ebrary. “Using DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), and other ebrary services, our staff was able to very quickly and easily aggregate PDF content and develop our new Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center.
Features Include:
+ Multiple options for searching, navigating, and browsing.
+ Ability to copy/paste and print text with automatic citations and URL hyperlinks back to the source.
Sources Include:
+ Federal Emergency Management Agency
+ International Tsunami Information Center
+ Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
+ National Drought Mitigation Center
+ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
+ National Weather Service
+ U.S. Department of Homeland Security
+ U.S. Fire Administration
+ U.S. Geological Survey
+ other authoritative sources
Source: ebrary
See Also: H1N1 Information Center from ebrary (Also Free) - http://h1n1.ebrary.com/home.action
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