Wednesday, May 8th 9:30-Noon
Digital Media Lab, Clemons Library
Refreshments Provided

For more information, go to: http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/medianet/2013/05/02/technology-infused-learning-ecologies/

For the complete article, go to: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-no-further-ado-present-170541397.html

If you post questions or comments on his Preface:

http://nowcomment.com/documents/11339

Rushkoff will respond on Wednesday April 24th.

Please contact info@nowcomment.com if you have any questions about the discussion process or our easy-to-use document discussion software.

About Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff has been an authority on the intersection of technology and culture since before the word “google” was anything more than baby talk. He predicted the coming centrality of the Internet (CYBERIA , 1992 – a book initially canceled by a publisher who feared the net would be over by the time it came out); he coined the terms “viral media” (MEDIA VIRUS , 1994) and “social currency” (Upside Magazine, 1996); he forecasted the collapse of the dotcom bubble (SXSW, 1997) and the most recent recession in a 2004 column that later became his book, LIFE INC; he even inspired today’s code literacy movement (PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED, 2010). He is the author of twelve bestsellers (translated to over thirty languages), the host of three award-winning documentaries, an award-winning educator, and frequent media commentator.

In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now, Rushkoff introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since most of us are finding it hard to adapt – present shock. Alvin Toffler’s radical 1970 book, Future Shock, theorized that things were changing so fast we would soon lose the ability to cope. Rushkoff argues that the future is now and we’re contending with a fundamentally new challenge. Whereas Toffler said we were disoriented by a future that was careening toward us, Rushkoff argues that we no longer have a sense of a future, of goals, of direction at all. We have a completely new relationship to time; we live in an always-on “now,” where the priorities of this moment seem to be everything.

About NowComment

NowComment is a free tool for sophisticated group discussion, annotation, and close reading of online documents. It encourages engaging, satisfying online conversations on a text by showing threaded comments “in context”; students start or join conversations on whatever passages they find interesting, important, or hard to understand. NowComment has been tested at and licensed by the University of Virginia, whose SHANTI office integrated it into UVA’s Sakai LMS as a core instructional tool. For more information please visit http://nowcomment.com.

Presentation: “The History of Thought as Networked Community: The RoSE Prototype”
Venue: Harrison Small Auditorium
Time: 3:00pm
Reception immediately following.

Abstract

What if bibliographies of past authors and works could be modeled as a dynamic, evolving society linked to today’s scholars and students? What if scholars and students could add data about biographical, historical, and intellectual relationships to the bibliographical entries, thus using present-day crowdsourcing to make more socially meaningful the crowds of history? And what if visualizations could help us actively “storyboard” intellectual movements and not just spectate them? Alan Liu and Rama Hoetzlein present the conceptual framework and some of the discoveries and challenges of the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment (in beta at the conclusion of a NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grant).

(Cosponsored by SHANTI, the Scholars’ Lab & IATH)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 — 9:30am
(Cosponsored by SHANTI, the Scholars’ Lab & IATH)

Presentation: “Redrawing the Map of the Roman World,” Tues., March 26, 2013, 9:30am, Scholars’ Lab. A reception will immediately follow.

To read more about this, go to: https://news.virginia.edu/content/stanford-scholar-discuss-maps-and-roman-world-march-25

For the complete article, go to: https://news.virginia.edu/content/new-partnership-between-duke-uva-allows-students-learn-tibetan-creole

For more information, go to: https://news.virginia.edu/content/teaching-resource-center-offers-support-redesigning-courses.

What:

A Computer Programming and Software Skills Bootcamp Short Course for grad students and postdocs who are familiar with basic programming concepts (like loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions) but need help to translate this knowledge into practical tools to help them work more productively.

When & Where:

March 7-8, 2013,at the Brown Science & Engineering Library Electronic Classroom in Clark Hall, Room 133 (#10 on Map), 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day.

Who:

Taught by Software Carpentry Software Carpentry is a volunteer organization supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation. Their mission is to help researchers be more productive by teaching them basic computing skills. They run boot camps at dozens of sites around the world, and also provide open access material online for self-paced instruction.

Requirements:

Participants with laptops should bring them with a few specific software packages installed. (The list will be sent to participants a week before the boot camp.)

Content:

The syllabus for this short course will include:
· using the shell to do more in less time · using version control to manage and share information · basic Python programming · how (and how much) to test programs · documentation and debugging

Contact:

For more information on course: info@software-carpentry.org. For logistical questions: gradstudies@virginia.edu

Registration is Required:

Seating is limited to 50 registrants. Registrations received over 50 will be waitlisted.

For more information, go to: https://news.virginia.edu/content/coursera-co-founder-speak-uva-feb-20-future-online-education

For the complete article, go to: https://news.virginia.edu/content/series-explore-how-best-design-uva-s-online-learning-environments