Dear Humanities Faculty, Graduate Students, and Friends,

Here is an overview of the HumaniTech® events and services during the spring quarter. You may also find all information and further detail at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech.

Please stop by and welcome Maritess Santiago, the new manager for HumaniTech and the Humanities Center.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Professors Sigi Jottkandt and Gary Hall on The Open Humanities Press
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:00-4:30 PM, 135 Humanities Instructional Building
The Open Humanities Press (OHP), an on-line publisher of contemporary critical and cultural theory, will be launched next month. It is a bold and pioneering new initiative, committed to open access and the free exchange of scholarly knowledge, formed in response to the growing inequality of readers' access to critical materials necessary for research in the humanities. It is a consortium of peer-reviewed open access journals in continental philosophy, cultural studies, new media, film and literary criticism.
Sigi Jottkandt will speak on "The Open Humanities Press: Free/Libre Scholarship," and Gary Hall will present "Liquid Theory." Their talks will touch on a short history of the Open Access movement, describe how standard humanities publishing models are not meeting specific problems confronting the humanities (e.g. author-pays publishing models, repositories etc.), and introduce the OHP.
Gary Hall is Professor of Media and Performing Arts, School of Art and Design, Coventry University; Co-editor of Culture Machine; Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive; Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press.
Sigi Jottkandt is a Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, The Netherlands; Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press, and Co-Editor of www.lineofbeauty.org
Co-sponsored by HumaniTech®, the UCI Libraries, the Critical Theory Institute, and the Department of Film and Media Studies. Please join us for this exciting event. A light reception will immediately follow.

Event Webs: Constructs, Connections, Causalities
Friday, May 9, 2008, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Calit2 Auditorium
The Web, as we know it today, is based on individual words and objects that are searchable. This one-day event of panels, roundtables, and demonstrations will show the exciting potential of a new Web construct, Web 3.0, or the EventWeb, which will be event, rather than object, focused, with the aim of communicating experiences and making spatial and temporal connections. The EventWeb aims to tie together events with a search engine that will focus on the continuity of time and space. It has promise for an impact on the study of history, literature, religion, and the social sciences, as well as for connections for people in developing countries.
Speakers include Bernard Frischer, Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia; Donald Hoffman, Professor of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine; Lewis Lancaster, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Literature at Berkeley and Founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative; Ngugi wa Thiong'o, UCI Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation; Jack Miles, UCI Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies; Ramesh Jain, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences; and Ryan Shaw, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley's School of Information.
Co-sponsored by HumaniTech, Network and Academic Computing Services, the International Center for Writing and Translation, and the Humanities Center.

Michael Shellenberger, New Series on "Orange Goes Green."
Wed., May 28, Time TBA, 135 Humanities Instructional Building
Michael Shellenberger will be launching an ongoing series, "Orange goes Green," co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, HumaniTech, and the Design Alliance. He is President and co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental think tank with a progressive approach to "green" issues.

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RESOURCES AND SERVICES

TUESDAY (WEDNESDAY) MORNINGS AT THE COMPUTER CAFE
The last Tuesday or Wednesday of every month, drop in between 9:00 - 10:30, varying locations. (There will be a reminder a day or two prior to each session.)
First session for Spring quarter: Wednesday, April 30, 9:00 - 10:30, 137 Humanities Instructional Building
Please stop by to discuss any computer related questions or issues you might have, ranging from web site and podcasting creation to hardware/software glitches, to purchasing advice, to copyright concerns, information on anti-plagiarism tools, and anything in-between. Or stop by just to meet the various computing resources staff and other colleagues. We promise good coffee and breakfast treats, amiable conversation, and problem solving as needed. A new twist this year has been alternating locations, all within the Humanities, to give several departments and programs a chance to show off their own spaces and to give you a chance to explore new ones.

INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SITES
HumaniTech is always available for consultation with you on your individual instructional web sites and research projects. Please contact me.

TURNITIN.COM
UCI subscribes to turnitin.com, a database driven plagiarism prevention and detection tool. It is administered through HumaniTech for School of Humanities faculty. Please contact Maritess Santiago (824-3638, m.santiago@uci.edu) or me if you're considering using turnitin or when you're ready to begin.

MAILMAN
UCI's web-based mailing list service with an array of features including archiving, posting, privacy levels, and response. It is for those faculty and staff who have a need for mailing lists (aka listservs) of students, faculty, or other UCI groups.

SMART CLASSROOM
If you'd like a tutorial on the use of one of our Smart Classrooms, please contact Judi Franz, Director of the Humanities Instructional Resource Center (824-4500, jmfranz@uci.edu).

PODCASTING
The School of Humanities web site now has a designated area for posting podcasts of events/lectures in the School. Departments, centers, and other Humanities academic groups will be able to utilize this feature through the web site's Web Content Management System created by Marcie Hague. Your edited, MP3 audio file will need to be sent to Maritess Santiago (m.santiago@uci.edu), who will place your podcast on the server for you. After the file is put on the server, you will be able to select it and add event details. If you or your staff requires help in any part of this process--from recording an event to editing audio files--HumaniTech, in partnership with EEE, offers a workshop on podcasting.

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NEWEST DEPARTMENT WEBSITES

French and Italian: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/frenchanditalian
German: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/german

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SPRING QUARTER WORKSHOPS

Here is the preview of HumaniTech's Spring quarter workshops. You may register now for any workshop of your choice, or you may wait for an additional call a week or so before the workshop date. To register for one or more workshops, go directly to http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/workshops/rsvp.php. All workshops are also listed on the HumaniTech website: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech.

BUILDING A WEB SITE WITH DREAMWEAVER (Beginner level)
Wed., 4/9, 10:00-12:00, 269 Humanities Hall
This workshop will highlight the features of Dreamweaver to help you move up from designing web *pages* to organizing web *sites*. First you'll be oriented to using Dreamweaver's interface and toolbars. Then you'll learn to use Dreamweaver tools for web site management, templates, frames and sophisticated graphics. You will have a finished product by workshop's end.
Instructors: Judi Franz, Director, Humanities Instructional Resource Center

FINDING AND USING IMAGES (All levels of research)
Thurs., 4/10, 2:00-4:00, 207 Humanities Hall
Need images for research and instruction? Having trouble finding quality digital images? What software might you want to consider for presenting digital images in the classroom? This workshop will lead you to rich resources where you can obtain images for the gamut of humanities courses as well as provide a hands-on experience with cutting-edge image management software. Participants will be introduced to freely available digital image collection web sites as well as licensed UC digital services where they can search for images and use them in research and presentations. Informing Barbara Cohen prior to the session of specific subject matter and/or planned uses is encouraged.
Instructor: Maureen Burns, Curator, Visual Resources Collection

DREAMWEAVER II (Prerequisite: Dreamweaver I or prior experience using Dreamweaver)
Wed., 4/16, 10:00 - 12:00, 269 Humanities Hall
This workshop will build on the basic Dreamweaver skills, with an emphasis on design, navigation and asset management. Some of the topics covered will be library items, rollovers, accessibility for the disabled, drop-down navigation menus, as well as others requested in advance by participants.
Instructors: Judi Franz, Director, Humanities Instructional Resources Center, and Dwayne Pack, Director of Computing, Humanities

INTRODUCTION TO ENDNOTE (All levels of research)
Wed., 4/16, 1:00 - 3:00, 166 Interactive Learning Center, Science Library
Looking for a way to organize your references and facilitate the citation process in papers and manuscripts? This workshop will get you started with EndNote, Version 9, a bibliographic management software program used to develop, organize and manipulate bibliographic citations and facilitate the publication process. EndNote allows the user to create a "library" to store and manage citations, as well as take notes on your sources, similar to a set of index cards, but with much more organizational power and flexibility. Through EndNote, you can also export citations from many (but not yet all) catalogs and databases (including ANTPAC, MELVYL, the MLA, AHL, and HA, for example) into your "library" bibliography and from your "library" into a word processor. You can thus produce a bibliography or manuscript automatically incorporating citations in a variety of publication styles (e.g., Chicago, APA, or journal-specific).
Instructor: John Novak, Humanities Research Librarian

INTRODUCTION TO PODCASTING, OR CAPTURING THE SOUNDS OF HUMANITIES --(For PC users at all levels)
Mon., 4/21, 10:00 - 12:00, 269 Humanities Hall
You will learn the step by step basics of recording, editing, organizing, and web site posting of audio captures, known as podcasts. Podcasting is excellent for special events and speakers. You may podcast your own lectures, poetry readings, interviews, conversations, and other information. You may want to highlight something aimed at grad student or faculty recruitment. The technology is relatively simple: you record it, turn it into an MP3 file, and post it on the Web. PCs and recording devices will be provided, but if you prefer to bring your own PC laptop to the workshop, it should have a wireless card plus Audacity (free Web editing software) installed in advance of the workshop. If you need assistance with Audacity installation, please get in touch with Maritess Santiago (x. 43638, m.santiago@uci.edu).
Instructors: Stephen Franklin, Director of Academic Outreach, NACS, and Kim Gerrard, Training/Outreach Coordinator, NACS

INTRODUCTION TO REFWORKS (All levels of research) -- */New
/*Tues., 4/22, 2:00 - 3:30, 228 (Teaching Enhanced Classroom), Langson Library
Learn the basics of RefWorks, a web accessible bibliographic management software, by building a bibliographic database, entering references manually, and capturing citations from ANTPAC and the Melvyl® Catalog. Advanced features such as producing bibliographies and creating manuscripts with properly formatted references will also be covered. An alternative to EndNote.
Instructor: Dana Peterman, Research Librarian for Education

INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP (General familiarity with navigating--moving, opening, closing, etc. in Windows)
Wed., 5/7, 2:00-4:00, 269 Humanities Hall
This is a hands-on session in which you'll be introduced to, and have a chance to practice, basic image creation and modification tools within Adobe Photoshop. You will also be provided with valuable links to explore more advanced functions when you're ready for the next steps.
Instructor: Dwayne Pack, Director of Computing, Humanities, and Laura Gonzalez, Operations Manager, Humanities Instructional Resources Center

INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT (Prerequisite: Ability to use Word)
Thurs. 5/15, 10:00 - 12:00, 207 Humanities Hall
This hands-on workshop will teach you the basics of creating and designing an instructive presentation. The participants will learn to manipulate text, to apply different designs and color schemes, to import graphics and to create links to web sites. The instruction will also cover animating and viewing the created PowerPoint show.
Instructor: Judi Franz, Director, Humanities Instructional Resources Center

INTRODUCTION TO ARTSTOR (All levels of research)
Thurs., 5/22, 10:00 - 12:00, 207 Humanities Hall
ARTstor is a rich digital library with extensive image collections, descriptive data, and easy-to-use software tools. Similar to JSTOR for obtaining scholarly journal literature, ARTstor is making available and preserving a reliable and comprehensive archive of over 500,000 digital images for the educational community. (These two resources can also be searched simultaneously.) In this hands-on workshop, participants will obtain an introduction to ARTstor by browsing image collections, experimenting with the software tools, forming groups of images, and creating presentations. Optional features will be highlighted, such as the ability to add personal digital images to ARTstor and use them with the core collections. End-user resource information will be provided, enabling participants to continue to explore ARTstor’s potential for research and teaching.
Instructor: Maureen Burns, Curator, Visual Resources Collection

COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE BASICS FOR THE WEB (All levels of teaching and research)
Date and location to be announced. Keep posted.
*Since this is sponsored by the EEE, you need to enroll at http://eee.uci.edu.* This workshop will focus on copyright and public domain issues and fair use principles as they apply to instructional web sites and PowerPoint creations. The history, background, and definitions of these principles, as well as essential guidelines for use, will be discussed. You will have an opportunity for some hands-on problem solving during the last part of the workshop.
Instructor: Barbara Cohen, Director, HumaniTech®

I look forward to seeing you during the course of the quarter.

Best,

Barbara

Barbara Cohen
Director, HumaniTech®
School of Humanities
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3375
Telephone: 949-824-7445; Fax: 949-824-4413
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech