Blog@Case Topics: presentationshttp://blog.case.edu/topics/presentationsEldan Goldenbergeldan.goldenberg@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/exg39Sandy Pideritkristin.piderit@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2Brian Brauchlerbrian.brauchler@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchemHeidi Coolheidi.cool@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/webdev2005-04-06T22:53:08ZIntersections: SOURCE Undergraduate Symposium and Poster Sessionhttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchem/2009/03/index#0248212009-03-17T21:53:28Z2009-03-17T22:02:02Z
Application Deadline: March 20, 2009 Program Date: April 17, 2009 Location: CWRU Website: http://www.case.edu/provost/source/symposium/index.htm Full Text: I am attaching a Call for Presentation Flyer and “How to Make a Poster†seminar flyer as a reminder that the deadline for undergraduate students to apply for the Symposium is March 20th. Please encourage your students to present their capstone work, research or creative project at Intersections. More information can be found at: http://www.case.edu/provost/source/symposium/index.htm. Bethany Pope SOURCE Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Sears 451 LC7212 368-2180
Brian Brauchlerbrian.brauchler@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchemCleveland State Spring Symposium Call for Abstractshttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchem/2009/02/index#0245502009-02-25T15:33:16Z2009-02-25T15:49:52Z
Application Deadline: February 28, 2009 Program Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 Location: Cleveland State University, Cole Center Flyer: PDF Registration Form: Word 2007 DOCX Full Text: Greetings for CSU's GSIRC CLUB. This is a friendly reminder that the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Research Club (GSIRC) of Cleveland State University’s Chemistry Department would like to invite you and your students to participate in our 2009 Northeastern Ohio Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Saturday, March 28th. At our last symposium we were able to give away over $2000 in cash prizes to student presenters and are hoping to have a bigger and better event this year. The symposium is open to graduate and undergraduate students from all biological and physical science disciplines. Please forward this information, along with the attached event poster and student registration form, to your department faculty and students. The deadline for registration and abstract submissions is February 28th. This is a great opportunity for your students to present their research, compete for cash prizes and interact with other students and professionals. CSU would love to have your department’s participation in this event. Jennifer Williams Cleveland State University GSIRC Vice President 2009.02.23_CSU-Symposium.jpg
Brian Brauchlerbrian.brauchler@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchemIntersections Call for Presentationshttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchem/2009/02/index#0242232009-02-03T21:10:43Z2009-02-03T21:15:30Z
Application Deadline: March 20, 2009 Program Date: April 17, 2009 Location: CWRU Website: http://www.case.edu/source/symposium Flyer: 2009.02.03_Call- for-Presentations.jpg
Brian Brauchlerbrian.brauchler@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/ugradchemBlogs: The Many Voices of a Universityhttp://blog.case.edu/webdev/2008/07/23/blogs.html2008-07-23T16:17:57Z2008-12-30T04:21:19ZSunday afternoon I skibbled off to Atlantic City to attend EduWeb 2008, a conference for Web development professionals in higher education.

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Blogs: The Many Voices of a University
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Sunday afternoon I skibbled off to Atlantic City to attend EduWeb 2008, a conference for Web development professionals in higher education.

The critical point of the conference—for me—came Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 when I presented Blogs: The Many Voices of a University. As some of you know, I'm more of a writer than a public speaker, so I faced the challenge with a wee bit of trepidation. Many kind people told me it went well though, so I will now share it with you. If you who were unable to attend, or if you wish to demonstrate the power of blogging to your university's administration, you may watch the video and view the slides here. I've also included the presentation abstract below.

Presentation Abstract: Blogs: The Many Voices of a University

Whether marketing to prospective students, engaging the community in campus life or reaching out to alumni, our mission requires us to distribute a wide range of information that will allow our various audiences to connect with our colleges and universities. Such information could include features of our academic programs, the impact of research, faculty scholarship, student achievements, campus activities, event announcements, etc. Through the use of campus blogs we can build on this informational foundation by letting the members of our community share their own thoughts and viewpoints with the world. By giving voice to these individuals we present an inside look into their experiences, activities and intellectual pursuits.

At Case Western Reserve University we have made blogs available to all members of the campus community including students, faculty, staff and alumni. Staff members use these blogs to share information, to teach and to provide customer service tools online. Faculty use them to share both their personal ideas and as classroom tools to engage students in online discussions. Students may blog about their overseas experiences, their athletic activities or classroom assignments while alumni may discuss their careers or political beliefs. This presentation will provide examples of the various ways individuals at Case, and other schools, are using blogs and how these individual voices come together to present a richer portrait of university life.

Blogging at Case

This presentation would not have been possible were it not for the Case Blog System provided by ITS, and the rich content created by our blogging alumni, faculty, staff and students. Thank you Lev, Jeremy and the many Case bloggers who gave me something to show off at the conference!

You can learn more about blogging at Case by visiting these resources:

Forthcoming: reflections on the conference.

Heidi Coolheidi.cool@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/webdevMena Trott evangelizes personal blogshttp://blog.case.edu/kep2/on_the_working_world/index#0117052006-10-20T10:14:53Z2006-10-20T10:43:39ZThis is a quick, reflective post in the role of the web in general, and blogs in particular, in how adults learn, make and keep connections to friends and family, and get things done (both for heir hobbies and avocations and in their paid work).
This is a quick, reflective post in the role of the web in general, and blogs in particular, in how adults learn, make and keep connections to friends and family, and get things done (both for heir hobbies and avocations and in their paid work). Yesterday, I taught a MGMT 250 class session on the training design process. Twelve different student teams prepared and delivered 3-minute impromptu speeches on different training methods. The list of 12 different methods included: distance learning, learning portals, and at least one other method that involved the use of technology in some way. I was really struck by how differently this semester's group of 40 students respond to the different training options, in terms of their perceived advantages and disadvantages, than the group of students I taught back in 1998 or 1999 when I first came to Case Western Reserve. I think I first started using blogs as one way of getting students to capture and share their reflections with me and with their classmates sometime around 2002 or 2003. Lots more students, this fall, have some previous experience with blogging. But there are still some who don't blog, and may not read any blogs on a regular basis. At the other end of the spectrum, there have been a few students in my class who were very internet-savvy in high school, learned to do web design for fun, and then converted their new skills into a way to make money. Things are clearly changing. And yet, our local paper of record still seems to portray the dominant culture image of blogs -- they're just personal diaries on the web, they're not worth reading, they aren't going to change the entire media industry.... all while developing their own site for the newspaper, which now includes blogs by a few reporters. I just came across Mena Trott's blog recently (click through to read more) And will someone please post a comment on this entry, so I can be reassured that the Blog@Case spamfilter isn't overfunctioning again?
Sandy Pideritkristin.piderit@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2Another semester of students begin a blogging experimenthttp://blog.case.edu/kep2/teaching/index#0107102006-09-08T11:19:04Z2006-09-08T11:30:05Z
Yesterday, Jeremy Smith gave a fabulous presentation on blogging using the Blog@Case system to interested students in MGMT 250 and 251 this fall. He discussed why it is useful for professionals to maintain a blog, explaining the merits of controlling one's online brand. He also walked through how to start up a blog on the Blog@Case system, how to categorize or tag a blog entry, and how to manage comment spam. Many thanks to Jeremy for a well-organized, crisp, and informative presentation! If any of my readers are interested in following the MGMT 250 students' blog entries, here's a link that will aggregate all entries that are tagged "MGMT250" (note the lack of space in that tag): topic=MGMT250 Here is the equivalent link for students in MGMT 251: topic=MGMT251. This fall, students in 251 will be starting topical blogs, in pairs or trios... the assignment has been modified slightly, so that there will be more than one student contributing on the same approved topic. I hope that the added number of entries on the same topic will help students find ways to draw traffic to their blogs. I will post later in the semester introducing the topic of each of those focused blogs, once they have an initial effort at relevant entries under their belts. If you are curious about why I encourage my students to learn how to blog, you might be interested in reading this entry of mine from about one year ago.
Sandy Pideritkristin.piderit@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2how to use voicemail productivelyhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2/professional_skills/index#0104622006-08-23T14:33:07Z2006-08-23T14:43:59Z
There's a lot I don't agree with in Guy Kawasaki's recent post, Twelve Things to Learn This School Year (yep, there are 12, even though the title is 10 things, and I'm just the kid of prof to niggle you about stuff like that). Like his point #4, suggesting that students should never make time to go to office hours or work in study groups --I disagree, quite vehemently. I also have some serious quibbles with his assumptions in #10, though I agree with his main point that learning to be a team player is important. I have NO idea who he is talking about in #11; none of MY colleagues have ever pasted textbook passages into THEIR Powerpoints... However I definitely agree with his point #12, learn how to leave a good voicemail:
"First, slowly say your telephone number once at the beginning of your message and again at the end. You don’t want to make people playback your message to get your phone number, and if either of you are using Cingular, you may not hear all the digits. Second (and this applies to email too), always make progress. Never leave a voicemail or send an email that says, “Call me back, and I’ll tell you what time we can meet.†Just say, “Tuesday, 10:00 am, at your office.â€
Finally, I absolutely agree with his concluding comment. Go, read it. Then come back here and tell me which of his points you find compelling.
Sandy Pideritkristin.piderit@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2step 1: believe in yourselfhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2/presentations/index#0066052006-02-16T11:08:24Z2006-02-16T11:18:08Z
Today Meredith Myers and Latha Poonamallee will be leading MGMT 251 students through a presentation skills workshop. As this essay by Carmine Gallo in Business Week points out, step 1 in delivering an effective presentation is to believe in yourself. The article offers other helpful tips as well. I found the article online via the Tom Peters Newswire, which is a really helpful filter if you are looking for discussions of current business topics on the web. There is also a collection of other presentation tips collected at my deli.cio.us tag about presentations, and at the aggregation of all popular deli.cio.us links on presentations. If you have not already seen Delicious, I recommend checking it out -- you can even integrate your list of tagged weblinks into your Blog@Case! Here's how. Unfortunately, I cannot be in class today, because I am scheduled to fly to Chicago at 10:30 am for a board meeting in a professional association. I was elected last May to serve as a representative-at-large for the 2600+ members of the Organization Development and Change division of the Academy of Management. I'll be back Saturday evening. If anyone needs me before then, my office voicemail has my cellphone number.
Sandy Pideritkristin.piderit@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/kep2Notacon slides, first cuthttp://blog.case.edu/exg39/2005/03/25/notacon_slides_first_cut2005-03-25T05:08:00Z2005-04-06T22:53:08Z
Notacon is coming up, and I'm looking forward to it. My lab-mate Sean and I will be giving a talk about biologically-inspired AI, which will partly be an introduction to what we do in our lab. I'm reasonably satisfied with the first draft of my half of the talk, so I think it's time to post it here for feedback: first draft slides [warning very large file; around 4 megabytes]. I recommend looking at them in one of the views that includes notes, because they'll make more sense that way. It is a rough cut, so the only formatting I've done is approximate positioning of images and shrinking the figure caption text. There are also a few placeholders left. Still, any feedback on what is there is welcome, and I hope it gets some people interested. There's going to be a lot more at this con than just a bunch of science geeks talking about what we do for a living. Take a look at the full speaker list, and if you're interested you should definitely come along. It's in a couple of weeks, registration is cheap, a lot of very sound people are involved in organising it, and it will be both a fun and useful weekend.
Eldan Goldenbergeldan.goldenberg@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/exg39When text hampers communicationhttp://blog.case.edu/exg39/2005/02/21/when_text_hampers_communication2005-02-21T14:47:52Z2005-04-06T22:48:29Z
Last year I gave my first conference presentation. It was also a first in another way, because it was the first time I had given a presentation that was really well-rehearsed, had gone through successive drafts, and had a structure that had been picked over carefully.
Eldan Goldenbergeldan.goldenberg@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/exg39