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LEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD

winter 2002

The Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching

Information Technology Services

The Lawrence McKinley Gould Library

additional sponsors:
Bush Faculty Development/Writing Grant
Carleton Players
Dean of the College
Digital Library for Earth System Education
Math and Computer Science
Media Studies
Mellon Information Literacy Grant
Mellon Technology in Teaching and Learning Grant
Nason Distinguished Women Visitors Fund
Women and Gender Studies
Women in Math and Science (WhIMS)

Week 1: no events

Week 2: Thursday, January 10

Gender and Technology:
A Case Study on Design Research and Ethics

Brenda Laurel, Pasadena, California

Graduate Faculty, Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design, Design/Research Consultant, Pasadena, California, and author of Utopian Entrepreneur

Noon-1 p.m.
Concert Hall, Carleton College

Follow-up discussion, lunch and book signing
1:15-2:00 p.m., Great Hall

article available in LTC, Laird 115

 

Week 3: Tuesday, January 15

Scholarly Communication and the Liberal Arts College

Clifford A. Lynch

Clifford A. Lynch is a computer scientist on the faculty at UC, Berkeley, committed to enhancing scholarship using information technology. He serves as Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, D.C. and is the author of The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure

noon-1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House
, lunch provided

 

Week 4: Tuesday, January 22

Faculty Scholarship Forum:

Digital Futures: Projects and Prospects for Multimedia

John Schott

Director of Media Studies,
James Woodward Strong Professor, Carleton College

noon-1:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
, lunch provided

 

Week 5: Tuesday, January 29

Virtual Reality for the Classroom: An affordable innovation

Paul Morin

Visualization Specialist
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Minnesota and
Media Union, University of Michigan

noon-1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House
, lunch provided

 

Week 6: Thursday, February 7

Teaching and Learning Online: A Language-Rich Environment

Bill Condon

Professor of English, Director of Writing Programs,
Washington State University and
Bush Visiting Professor of Rhetoric, Carleton College

noon-1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House,
lunch provided

 

Week 7: Tuesday, February 12

Information Literacy at Carleton

Karen Fischer, Head of Reference and Instruction,
Gould Library, Carleton College
Nathan Grawe, Economics
Clara Hardy, Classics
Susan Jaret McInstry, English
Victoria Morse, History
Mary Savina, Geology
and Library Liaisons:
Mollie Freier, Michael Kirby, Colleen McFarland, Charlie Priore, Carolyn Sanford

noon-1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House
, lunch provided

 

Week 8: Monday, February 18

Placing Liberal Arts Learning in a Geographic Context:
Examples from the Earth and Social Sciences

Michael F. Goodchild

Professor, Department of Geography and
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
University of California, Santa Barbara

12:30-2:00
Alumni Guest House,
lunch provided

 

Week 9: Thursday, February 28

Copyright, Fair Use and the Internet

James M. Pfau

Partner, Faegre & Benson, LLP
Minneapolis

noon-1:30 p.m.
Alumni Guest House,
lunch provided

Last modified: Monday, 07-Jan-2002 16:22:54 CST
by Mark F. Heiman, mheiman@carleton.edu