Southern California Institute for Writing Technology Education

DIY Texts

lizlosh — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:27:51 +0000

SCIWRITER team members will be speaking at DIY Texts: Students and the Future of Writing–A Preview on the U.C. Irvine campus. Jonathan Alexander and Elizabeth Losh will be joined by new local Institute member Jacqueline Rhodes for a discussion of “the major trends in student use of multimedia texts–including reading, creating, remixing for dissemination, applying to YouTube, encountering and (re)authoring gamespaces.”

Faculty Blogging Panel

lizlosh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:34:32 +0000

SCIWRITER held its first public session at an event on faculty blogging that was co-hosted by UC Irvine’s Humanitech.

Many of the panelists made outlines of their presentations available, including Julia Lupton, Peter Krapp, and Elizabeth Losh

The Teaching and Learning with Technology Center also filmed the event. Videos are available from the links below:

Peter Krapp Part One

Peter Krapp Part Two

Scott Eric Kaufman Part One

Scott Eric Kaufman Part Two

Elizabeth Losh Part One

Elizabeth Losh Part Two

Elizabeth Losh Part Three

Discussion Part One

Discussion Part Two

Discussion Part Three

Introductory Video

lizlosh — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:08:07 +0000

An Introduction to SCIWRITER
Produced and Directed by Liz Losh

Sciwriter Tool Demo

markcmarino — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:29:43 +0000

Here’s a preview of some of the tools we will use.

Virtual instructor introduces Sciwriter philosophy.

Academic Blogging Event

lizlosh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:26:55 +0000

SCIWRITER is pleased to announce its first public event for students and teachers in the Orange County area on October 31 from 9:30-11AM in Room 135 of the Humanities Instructional Building (Building 610) on the campus of the University of California at Irvine.

“Is an ‘Academic Blog’ an Oxymoron? A Public Conversation between Faculty Bloggers and Student Bloggers” will feature some of U.C. Irvine’s best known professor-bloggers. Check out the lively exchanges about blogging that will feature Scott Kaufman, Peter Krapp, Catherine Liu, Julia Lupton, and others. This event is co-sponsored with Humanitech, and the public is welcome.

Google Presentation

markcmarino — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:02:48 +0000

With the advent of Google Presentation, students will no longer need to purchase Microsoft Office in order to develop their slideshow presentations. Also, as with Google Docs, the site facilitates collaborating on and sharing presentations. Unfortunately, the slides cannot be easily exported in .PPT format and presumably must be shown in live form. Should we “drink the Kool-Aid” and promote the use of these tools with students?

Does this help solve the irritating DocX problems? Greg Laden lays out some of the more general issues with the new Microsoft Office files here.

Or do such tools close off the possibility of promoting open source tools like Open Office? (Donna Bogatin of ZDNET offers one thread on this topic).

An alternative for sharing slideshows is the slideshare site, a kind of YouTube for slides.

Zotero Review

lizlosh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:12:17 +0000

Inside Higher Ed has a review of Zotero, an online research tool that uses the web browser Firefox. “Mark of Zotero” is a largely positive review, but author Scott McLemee points out that the system would be much more useful if it were web-based rather than dependent on access to files stored on a computer hard drive.