A key question pondered by many presenters at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech in Atlanta was trying to get at what the combination of those two concepts meant. Georgia Tech does not have a school of journalism, but invited speakers from many well-respected news organizations to weigh in about how they saw […]

Dr. Brian McLaughlin spent a long time as a teacher before he went back to school himself. He taught history, math and science in Borneo in grades 7-9 while he was a Peace Corps volunteer and has held many other teaching positions all the way from nursery school through college. He now directs a […]

The Conference Center in Washington, D.C was the site of the NSF Workshop. Robert Payo, NSDL Outreach Specialist speaking with an attendee.
A friendly-looking person, often laden with SWAG (stuff everyone gets at conferences) approaches the NSDL exhibit booth. Opening pleasantries commence—“Where are you from? What do you do?”— before demonstrations and conversation about the […]

A team of collaborators led by Alan Wolf, University of Wisconsin and Flora McMartin that included Glenda Morgan, Cathy Manduca, Joshua Morrill, and Ellen Iverson surveyed 4,678 faculty members from 115 two, four, and gradutate level colleges and universities during the Fall of 2005 to find out how they used or did not use digital […]

You will find lots of information about the Annual Meeting in a Special Issue of Whiteboard Report. Please use this blog to share your Annual Meeting reports, personal impressions, photographs and restaurant recommendations. Contact Brad Edmondson , or Carol Minton Morris (or talk to them in person) for registration information.
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When the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing convened on Monday morning, the difference was apparent. Most of the 400 people in the room were younger than 30, and pale-skinned guys were in the minority. There was a roughly equal mix of black and Latino students, and there were more women than men. […]

(L-R) GameCATS: Michael Eagle, Lane Harrison, Eve Powell
Eve Powell has loved computer gaming as long as she can remember, and she knew long ago that she wanted to learn computer game design in college. There weren’t many opportunities for game enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte (UNCC) when she arrived, so Powell […]

Tammy Sumner, Assistant Professor, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Colorado at Boulder presented a conceptual framework that guides the development of content-rich, adaptable, and adaptive learning environments powered by digital libraries along with concrete examples of this infrastructure, such as the Strand Map Service, a programmatic web service that can […]

Waves wash up on red sandstone pebbles at Greenwich Beach on Prince Edward Island, and a pastoral view towards Nova Scotia.
The colorful red dirt patchwork of potato farms is evident as you fly into Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island (PEI) located in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Locals bemoan the lack of economic opportunity while in […]

Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora Commons, and CIS Dean Robert Constable address well-wishers about the impacts that Fedora Commons will have on information access and management into the future. Photographs by Rosemary Adessa.
Friends and colleagues gathered at Cornell Information Science on Aug. 13 at a reception to honor the creation of the […]