The third iteration of the Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit (LASTS) will be held on Thursday, August 16, 2012, in Foster Auditorium. The College of the Liberal Arts is again partnering with Education Technology Services (ETS) and University Libraries to provide Liberal Arts faculty and graduate students a forum in which to share insights and learn from one another regarding the use of technology for teaching and research.
A new feature to LASTS is the addition of a pre-conference workshop to be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. The workshop will provide a forum for attendees to explore and discuss the nature of digital humanities and its role at Penn State. More information about the pre-conference workshop can be found on the Humanities @ Penn State Libraries blog.
Thursday’s event will feature presenters from Liberal Arts, Education Technology Services, and the Libraries, as well as a keynote address from Cole Camplese, Senior Director for Penn State Teaching & Learning with Technology. Below is an overview of the presenters and their topics:
9:05-9:15: Dawn Childress (University Libraries)
Brief summary of the pre-conference workshop on digital humanities.
9:15-9:50: Cole Camplese (TLT)
Keynote address from the Senior Director of Penn State’s Teaching and Learning with Technology.
9:50-10:05: Christopher Long (LAUS/Philosophy)
Discussion on how the research for his book, Socratic and Platonic Politics, was carried out in public through his Digital Dialogue podcast and his blog, The Long Road.
10:05-10:20: Mike Furlough (University Libraries)
Overview of how some libraries around the country have supported digital humanities research, as well as one example at Penn State.
10:20-10:35: Allan Gyorke (ETS)
Overview of key technology trends in higher education–including MOOCs, badge systems, learning analytics, and electronic textbooks–and how they are connected to activities occurring across the university.
10:55-11:10: Brian Young (ETS)
Demonstration of Doceri, a software that allows control of a computer (podium computer or laptop) with an iPad.
11:10-11:25: Jessica O’Hara (ENGL)
Discussion on how “intensive blogging” has been implemented in first-year honors rhetoric and composition courses.
1:20-1:35: Mark Fisher (PHIL) and Christopher Long (LAUS/PHIL)
Description of plans for an open peer-reviewed online journal of public philosophy.
1:35-1:50: Daniel Tripp (ENGL)
Discussion on instances when the technologies that make digital scholarship possible threaten it with obsolescence, as related to the post-publication history of Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars.
1:50-2:05: Chris Stubbs (ETS)
Overview of the creation, design, and student testing of EconU, a brand new web-based economics game.
2:05-2:20: Emily Rimland (Libraries)
Discussion of the Research Project Calculator and the Penn State iPad User Group.
More information on the presenters and their topics can be found on the complete schedule.
For those unable to attend in person, we invite you to join us online, where we will be streaming live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lasts-12.
The event can also be followed on Twitter at hashtag #LASTS12.
Videos and slide handouts will be posted here after the event, so be sure to check back for additional resources.