Charles Dickens: A Bicentennial Exhibit

To celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens in February 1812, the Watzek Library and English Department have collaborated on a substantial exhibit of British and American first editions of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, along with examples of parts and periodical issues of the novels and other memorabilia. The exhibit focuses on A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Moonstone, and Dan Simmons’s Drood. Other cases explore the topics of illustration, serial publication, the two American reading tours by Dickens, and issues of copyright in nineteenth century England and America. Exhibit text by English faculty members Pauls Toutonghi and Andrea Hibbard, junior Dana Bronson, and Watzek staff member Paul Merchant. Design by Jeremy Skinner. This event is open to the public.

All Day (repeats daily to 5/6) Location: Watzek Library This event was posted by College: Watzek Library.

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Website “Office Hours” @ Law School

Morgan Grether, New Media and Lawrence Siulagi, Law School, provide hands-on training for LiveWhale users most Wednesdays. They will answer questions, solve problems and discuss new tools and approaches to improve your online content. Drop-ins welcome.  This event is intended for staff.

2:00–4:00pm (repeats weekly to 8/29) Location: Legal Research Center, Student Lounge This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: LiveWhale Support.

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Chamber Music Concert

LC students will be presenting the best of classical music for small ensembles. Performances will include movements from piano trios by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and the most famous of Dvořák’s string quartets, “The American”. This event is open to the public.

7:30–9:00pm (to 5/2) Location: Agnes Flanagan Chapel This event was posted by College: Music.

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• performance
• performing art
• art
• humanities

Website “Office Hours” @ Law School

Morgan Grether, New Media and Lawrence Siulagi, Law School, provide hands-on training for LiveWhale users most Wednesdays. They will answer questions, solve problems and discuss new tools and approaches to improve your online content. Drop-ins welcome.  This event is intended for staff.

2:00–4:00pm (repeats weekly to 8/29) Location: Legal Research Center, Student Lounge This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: LiveWhale Support.

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• livewhale
• web
• support

Quick Bytes: Digital Tools for Teaching

VoiceThread (9:00 – 9:25)A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and viewers to comment in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).  VoiceThread is a popular web app for digital storytelling assignments and can be a creative way for students to document and share what they’ve learned.   Digital Annotation on the iPad (9:30 – 9:50)Come check out what sleek new iPad apps are available for annotating documents on the go! We’ll discuss a range of iPad apps that allow you to comment on your students’ work conveniently (and paperlessly) from your mobile device. In this class, you’ll find out the benefits of these apps and what limitations they might have.   Social Bookmarking (9:55 – 10:15) Don’t lose your way in the vast ocean of information. Social bookmarking services enable you to keep a personal or collaborative library of web links. We’ll show you how it works, and how you might use it to build an ever-growing knowledge base for your classroom. 

9:00–10:15am (to 5/16) Location: Geary This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• focus on teaching

Quick Bytes: Images Online

Flickr & Picasa (9:00 – 9:25)Organizing and sharing images can be difficult, but a number of free web services are available to help! Picasa and Flickr are two examples of powerful and free web tools that can be used to manage your images.  ARTstor (9:30 – 9:50)In this session, we’ll tour ARTstor, a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. I will highlight the recent changes, and how the College’s images collections are being integrated with ARTstor’s.  Creative Commons (9:55 – 10:15)Join Lewis & Clark’s Visual Resources Librarian, Stephanie Beene, for a quick overview of using Creative Commons Federated Search to search image databases for Creative Commons images.  Stephanie will also showcase other resources available in the Finding Images section of her “Images Across Subjects” Subject Guide.

9:00–10:15am (to 5/16) Location: Thayer This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• cool tools & personal tech

Quick Bytes: Managing Moodle

Moodle Groups (9:00 – 9:25) Come and learn how to set up and use Moodle Groups!  Take advantage of even more flexibility in controlling access by group to file uploads, forums, quizzes and more! Controlling Access to your Moodle Page (9:30 – 9:50) We’ll show you how to manually add and remove participants to your course and set up options for self-enrollment including placing students in groups or automatically sending out a custom welcome message! Backup Your Course (9:55 – 10:15) Instructors are responsible for long-term storage of any student data, especially grades, you need to preserve for your records.  Come and learn the ins and outs of backing up your Moodle Course. 

9:00–10:15am (to 5/16) Location: Dubach PC This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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Quick Bytes: Put LCapps to Work

Groups (9:00 – 9:25)Google Groups will bring new features and functionality to managing a listserv on campus. Learn how to make the most of these new features, including file sharing and document collaboration.  Document Conversion with Google Docs (9:30 – 9:50)Google Docs allows you to not just create new documents within its interface, but also to collaborate and share existing documents from your computer, and then to export them again to do some final formatting for publication!  We’ll also discuss how to use this tool to open files in formats you don’t have programs for, such as OpenOffice documents. Appointment Slots (9:55 – 10:15)One of the best features of Google Calendar for faculty use is the ability to set up Appointment Slots.  These allow you to dedicate fixed times for meeting with students or other members of the L&C community, without having people see your whole calendar.  Easy to set up and to share!

9:00–10:15am (to 5/16) Location: Dubach Mac This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• google

Collecting Student Work in Moodle

Moodle supports several methods for collecting student work electronically. The Assignment activity makes completing, receiving, grading and providing feedback on electronically submitted assignments easy. Moodle options for group assignments and peer review include the database activity, discussion forums and wikis, all of which provide space for collaborative work.  In this session we’ll focus on Moodle’s assignment activity and share some examples using the database activity and discuss gotchas you may encounter however you choose to accept work electronically. 

10:30–11:45am (to 5/16) Location: Dubach PC This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• moodle

Getting Started with Gmail

Lewis & Clark email is now powered by Google!  Now you use LCmail, based on Google’s Gmail when you want to check email on the web.  This class is for those new to Gmail or Gmail novices. We’ll discuss the basic functions of Gmail and how it differs from what mail systems you might be used to.

10:30–11:45am (to 5/16) Location: Dubach Mac This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• google
• gmail

Making the Jump to eBooks in the Classroom

Electronic books are transforming how we read and interact with texts and are now a part of our library collection.  Come and learn more about eBook and eReader options available through the Watzek Library.  We’ll report on our recent pilots, share the results of our recent survey on the efficacy of eBooks in a freshman-level course at LC, and showcase our current collection. Join Librarians Stephanie Beene and Jim Bunnelle on a scavenger hunt to explore the different eBook options! 

10:30–11:45am (to 5/16) Location: Thayer This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• focus on teaching
• ebook

Multimedia Projects in iMovie

Thinking about assigning multimedia projects for your class? Interested in recording visiting speakers or other special events? In this workshop we’ll provide you with what you need to know to make projects successful. We’ll talk about common “gotchas” associated with AV projects and how you can avoid them. You’ll leave this session knowing best practices for capturing decent audio and video, what equipment and facilities we have on campus to support you and your students, and best practices for making sure others can easily access and view projects.

10:30–11:45am (to 5/16) Location: Resource Lab This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
• client service
• workshop
• cool tools & personal tech

iPads in Education

The Apple iPad has the potential to change how faculty interact with technology for the purpose of teaching.  Information Technology and Watzek Library were funded to explore this potential by putting iPads in the hands of faculty as part of the iPads in Education project. Come and hear from our panel of faculty about their experiences using the iPad during the 2011-2012 academic year.

12:45–2:00pm (to 5/16) Location: Templeton Campus Center - Stamm West This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• information technology
• faculty technology institute
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• send-to-graduate-screen
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Getting Started with LCcalendar

Now that LCcalendar has replaced Meeting Maker, do you know how to get around? Come for an overview of how to get the most out of LCcalendarincluding initial set up, adding and removing events, responding to invitations, and how to set privacy options.

10:00–11:30am (to 5/23) Location: Templeton Campus Center - Dubach Mac This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: IT.

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• google
• software training
• calendar

Website “Office Hours” @ Law School

Morgan Grether, New Media and Lawrence Siulagi, Law School, provide hands-on training for LiveWhale users most Wednesdays. They will answer questions, solve problems and discuss new tools and approaches to improve your online content. Drop-ins welcome.  This event is intended for staff.

2:00–4:00pm (repeats weekly to 8/29) Location: Legal Research Center, Student Lounge This event was posted by Lewis & Clark: LiveWhale Support.

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• law
• livewhale
• web
• support

Track & Field @ DIII National Champs

on May 24, 2012: DIII National Champs, Lewis & Clark, hosted by Claremont, TBA This event is open to the public.

9:00pm This event was posted by College: Athletics.

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• track and field