Oral History Association | 2009 Annual Meeting Program is now available online.  It will be a great conference held October 14-18, 2009, at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

iSchools and the Digital Humanities.  Three graduate iSchools–the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, the University of Michigan School of Information, and the University of Texas Austin School of Information–have agreed to collaborate deeply with three nationally-recognized digital humanities centers (MITH, CDRH, and MATRIX) to create a model internship program for students interested in careers in digital humanities centers and digital libraries.  The project has a blog at (http://www.ischooldh.org/network) and a twitter (ischooldh).

Attending the Digital Humanities 2009 conference http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/> The conference runs from June 22-25, 1009 at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Participated a part of a roundtable “Oral History in the Digital Age: A Conversation About Best Practices,” Oral History  Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 15-19, 2008.  Also talked about the launch of the new website for OHA (http://www.oralhistory.org/).

Attending the Open Education 2008, the annual meeting and conference for the OpenCourseWare Consortium.  Doing demonstration of Kora and Connex.  September 24-26, 2008.

Gave guest lecture on media and visual literacy in MSU’s IAH 211c Section 004: 1960s and 1970s America in Culture and Politics.  Monday, September 22, 2008.

For the Fall of 08, I will be starting new course in Digital Rhetoric.  Should prove to be interesting and will focus on old and new media, archives, databases, code, viral video, and rhetorical theory.  The course will experiment with using a new social networking application, The Information Habitat, as its learning environment.

July 14-16, 2008

Princeton, NJ

Participated in Workshop 1d (http://projectbamboo.uchicago.edu/)

Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:

How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?

April 3-4, 2008

http://chips.ci.fs.edu

IMLS meeting to discuss how libraries, archives, and museums can work together better to train information professinals for tomorrow.