Digital Foundations Workshop: Email Best Practices

With email serving as the primary method of digital communication in the workplace, it’s important to know how to send a good one. The process of sending a good email, though, goes beyond merely typing a message and hitting “send.” Good emails equally rely on the ability to compose and organize messages effectively. That makes it crucial to understand both the full functionality of email services and the etiquette of email correspondence. This workshop will help participants make the most of their email by applying appropriate discourse conventions, customizing settings, organizing messages, and prioritizing responses.

Led by Lacy Hope, Ph.D. Student, English

Wednesday, March 20th, 2019, 2:00-3:30pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

This workshop will require participants to bring a digital device (preferably a laptop or tablet) and have access to their WSU Outlook account

Questions? Please contact Tor de Vries: tor.devries@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

Digital Foundations Workshop: Better Web Browsing

As we spend more of our time collectively online, it has become important to know more about the tools we use to connect with various websites, apps, and through which we do everything from pursue research to play games. This workshop will provide background on the differences between the most popular browsers, and some tips and tricks for customizing your web browsing experience with tools, settings, and extensions/plugins, making time spent online more productive, engaging, and enjoyable. We will also delve into the ways in which your browser can help you to take more control over your digital footprint. To that end, we’ll review settings and configurations; discuss maintenance habits; and review a few specific plug-ins and extensions that can enhance security online.

Led by Richard Snyder, DTC Instructor and Ph.D. Student, English

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Students should try to bring their own laptop if they have one. We’ll be working with Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Of course, phone browsers also have some things we could talk about, but that won’t be the focus for this talk.


Questions? Please contact Tor de Vries: tor.devries@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

2019 Spring Symposium

CDSC Spring Symposium 2019

Reframing Landscapes: Digital Practices and Place-based Learning

Landscapes are persistent and dynamic characters in our lives, yet they often go unexamined. We may easily take for granted the crisscrossed and subdivided roadways, zoning ordinances, waterways, and cultural assumptions that give shape to our online maps and automated GPS systems. At the heart of WSU’s land grant mission is the idea that places matter, that they have a history, that our relationships to places are deeply connected to the people with whom we share them and the histories that animate them. But how can we better make places a conscious factor in our scholarship and research, our decision-making, our teaching, and our community-building efforts that extend beyond the University landscapes? How can we reframe landscapes that are indelibly marked by colonial and violent histories? The 2019 Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation’s Spring Symposium will highlight projects both external and internal to WSU that seek to reframe assumed narratives, representations, and relationships to and with place, new digital projects and techniques, and innovative pedagogical practices with an eye toward collaborations and meaningful partnerships.

Sponsors:

Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, WSU Libraries, WSU English Department, WSU History Department, WSU College of Education, WSU Native Programs

March 4th: Day 1 Symposium (FACEBOOK EVENT)

  • Monday, March 4th, 10:00am-3:00pm
  • CUB Junior Ballroom

Speakers

10:00am Welcome, Dr. Kimberly Christen, Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation

10:10-11:00am

Sara Siestreem, Adjunct Instructor, Art Practices, Portland State University

Sara Siestreem is an artist who creates abstract paintings through a combination of color field painting, automatic drawing, and an incorporation of symbology. Through her work, she portrays the interconnectedness of nature and expression through patterns and repetition. Her work is represented by Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and she received her MFA from Pratt Art Institute. Siestrem teaches studio arts at Portland State University and Traditional Indigenous Weaving Practices for The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians.

11:10am-12:00pm

Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Associate Professor, Gender Studies; Chair, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Director, American Indian Studies Research Center

Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Chair of American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center, and the new Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs at UCLA. She is the author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and a Co-PI on two community based digital projects, Mapping Indigenous L.A (2015) and Carrying Our Ancestors Home (2019).

1:10-2:00pm

Dr. Roopika Risam,  Assistant Professor of English and the Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives at Salem State University

Roopika Risam is an Assistant Professor of English at Salem State University where she serves as Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives, Coordinator of the Digital Studies Graduate Program, and Coordinator of the Secondary English Education Program. Her research interests include postcolonial, African American, and US ethnic studies, as well as the role of the digital humanities in these areas. Risam is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP, 2018), co-editor of Debates in the Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, and works on multiple digital projects, including The Harlem Shadows Project, Visualizing Du Bois, and Digital Salem.

2:10-3:00pm

Ethnographic Mapping and Indigenous Cartographies

Dr. Brian Thom, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Victoria

Brian Thom is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria where he founded the Ethnographic Mapping Lab (https://ethnographicmapping.uvic.ca). Our lab is a centre for collaboration between Indigenous communities, UVic faculty, and graduate students to work on cartographic projects that attend to Indigenous priorities in land and resource rights, inter-generational knowledge sharing, and public education.  We work to provide extensive training and expertise for Indigenous communities interesting in deploying Google Earth Google Earth and related tools for re-storying Indigenous landscapes.

4:30-5:30

Reframing Landscapes Roundtable: Perspectives from the Plateau (FACEBOOK EVENT)

Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center

Welcome to Floyd Center, Paula Groves-Price, Associate Dean for Diversity and International Programs; Professor, Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education; Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center Scholar in Residence

Introduction to Panel, Zoe Higheagle Strong, Director, Plateau Center for Native American Research and Collaborations; Director of Tribal Relations and special assistant to the provost, WSU

Panelists:

Bobbi Rose (Spokan), Archives and Collections Assistant Manager, Spokane Tribal Preservation Program

Michael Holloman (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), Associate Professor, Fine Arts, Washington State University

Nakia Williamson (Nez Perce) Cultural Resources Program Director, Nez Perce Tribe

Moderated by Dr. Kimberly Christen, Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation

Reception following Roundtable at 5:30

March 5th: Day 2 Workshops (Facebook Event)

      • Tuesday, March 5th
      • Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4th Floor, Holland Library

9:00-10:15am

Using Scalar for History and Perceptions of Place with Andrew Gillreath-Brown, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, WSU

Digital Storytelling with Rebecca Goodrich, Senior Instructor in English; Assistant Director of Digital Technology and Culture, WSU

10:35-11:50am

StoryMaps with David Bolingbroke, PhD Candidate, Department of History, WSU

1:00-2:15pm

Panel: Place-based Pedagogy

A discussion of  ideas for incorporating place into teaching.

Kate Watts, Senior Instructor; Interim Assistant Director of Composition, Department of English, WSU

Debbie Lee, Regents Professor & Assistant Director of the Visiting Writer Series, Department of English, WSU

Trevor Bond, Head, WSU Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections; Co-director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation

Jeff Sanders, Associate Professor, Department of History, WSU

 

Digital Foundations Workshop: Digital Privacy – Tools for Daily Living

Digital Foundations Workshop: Digital Privacy – Tools for Daily Living

Every day we read about hacking, digital surveillance, and more connected to the pervasive technological world in which we live. What are the implications of digital technologies in terms of our personal identities and our privacy? This workshop will review some of the issues surrounding digital privacy, and will provide a hands-on opportunity to learn about tools and resources to help you protect your own digital privacy.

Led by Lorena O’English, Social Sciences and Government Documents Librarian, WSU Libraries

Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop. Facebook event link.

Please bring a laptop if possible.

Questions? Please contact Tor de Vries: tor.devries@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

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