Registration is now open for the second iteration of the Digital Pedagogy
Institute, co-hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, Brock
University, and Ryerson University, and supported by the generosity of a
SSHRC Connections grant and Victoria Owen, UTSC Chief Librarian. This
Institute will explore the potential impact that digital pedagogy has on
student experience.
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CFP: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the fourth series of
the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1]. This initiative, inspired by
and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar
[2], is organised in association with the German Archaeological
Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. It will run during the
winter term of the academic year 2015/16.
We invite submissions on any kind of research which employs digital
methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to
enable a better or new understanding of the ancient world. We encourage
contributions not only from Classics but also from the entire field of
“Altertumswissenschaften”, to include the ancient world at large, such
as Egypt and the Near East.
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Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum Environments –
Citizen Science for the Digital Humanities
http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/crowdsourcing.html
– Taught by experts from Google and Zooniverse (Oxford’s Citizen
Science platform).
– How to plan your crowdsourcing all the way from project
conception to launch to data analysis.
– In-depth experience of all stages of Zooniverse’s new DIY
crowdsourcing site from developing and launching a beta site
through to using data refinement and analysis tools to understand
the results.
– Come with your own project ideas and set of images to work from
to get practical experience in building a project with a dataset
that you understand.
– Opportunity to pitch your project, generate interest in it,
attract a crowd from amongst Summer School delegates, and get
them to respond to it. There will be time to reflect on the
process of setting up and sustaining a crowdsourcing project.
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Final Call for Participation: Papers & Notes
ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2015
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
November 15–18, 2015
ACM ITS is the premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies. ACM ITS 2015 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces (including tabletops, large displays, mobile, and mini devices). The conference embraces innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of interactive surfaces. This year’s event will be held at the Vidamar Resort Madeira hotel on the wonderful island of Madeira in Portugal.
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The Mary Couts Burnett Library at TCU is seeking applications for an Innovator Collaborator position. Please see attachment above
Texas Christian University is a private, doctoral granting university with an enrollment of about 10,000 students. The Mary Couts Burnett Library has a full time staff of 60, and a collection that includes over 2 million books and audio-visual materials and over 75,000 current journals, electronically and in paper. Located 45 miles west of Dallas, Fort Worth has a population of over half a million and is home to internationally recognized museums, numerous performing arts organizations, a vibrant downtown with an active night life, and two national historic districts.
Information on benefits is available on the TCU Human Resources web site at: http://www.hr.tcu.edu/
To apply, please visit : https://tcu.iGreentree.com/CSS_External/CSSPage_Referred.ASP?Req=2015-172
More information available here: Innovation Collaborator PUBLIC POSTING
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Call for Participation: Doctoral Symposium
ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2015
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
November 15-18, 2015
http://www.its2015.org
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The TELOTA initiative of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin is looking for a Digital Humanities Specialist with experience in XML, TEI, MySQL, PHP and/or JavaScript.
Please find more details in the job description (in German): http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen-2015/TELOTA_Regenbogen_wissMA_Korrektur.pdf