CSL Pecha Kucha Presentations

Here are some of the presentations from our last day of class. I will add the presentations that CSLers send my way!

Writers Guild of Alberta on Prezi

Final Send Off

Thank you so much everyone for coming today to our final class.

Thank to you the CSL students who bravely gave wonderful presentations (using Prezzie!) about their placements. They all taught us a lot about not-for-profits organizations and what goes on at the University and in the local area.

Thank you also to the three students, Kelsey, Annalise and Julianna, who created a visual and musical wrap-up of the term using social media! Amazing work!

Lecture 35: Final Day of Classes

Hi everyone!

And here we are, on the very last day of ALES204 - I know you'll miss it! :)

REMINDER: Your E-portfolio is due today by 17:00. Please send the link to your blog to your TA. And, don't forget to include the links to your FIVE comments in your final blog post.


I'd like to thank you all for coming to class and participating both in class and through the class blog, your blogs and twitter. I'd also like to wish you all a lovely festive season. On that note, here is a video from 16 year old Winnipeg student Sean Quigley, who harnessed social media (youtube) and is now famous: a Canadian wintery rendition of The Little Drummer Boy.





On our last day, as mentioned, we will have the exciting Pecha Kucha presentations for the CSL students. They are going to share with us a little bit about what they've been working on this term. Perhaps you'll be so interested, you'll want to enroll in CSL in another term.

After the Pecha Kucha presentations I would like you all to take about 10 minutes to answer a survey I've created. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on the course, what you learnt and perhaps what you would still like to learn. I'll use this information in my next course design! I appreciate your input and your participation.

You can fill in the form right here (scroll down a bit) or access the google doc (but of course!) here. Note, feel free to work with a partner.

And finally, we'll conclude our class with a special send-off from three of your classmates, Kelsey MacDonald, Julianna Damer and Annalise Young.

Lecture 34: Futurecasting

Wow, it is that time of year already - two classes left in the entire term and today will be the final lecture!

Lecture 34: Futurecasting for #ALES204

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As you know, Wed. we have some fun lined up for us consisting of the sure-to-be informative pecha kucha presentations from our CSL students and a special sum-up from Kelsey MacDonald, Julianna Damer and Annalise Young.


 Here is my own little summary of this term's Ales204 class. I used storify (mentioned in the lecture) to curate some photos, tweets, audioboos and more that were published on the web with our course tag: #ALES204. Enjoy and feel free to comment on the stories themselves (a new feature storify recently added).


Take a look at this prediction for the Future of Science from the Institute for the Future:

A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021

 CNN features map in "A look at 'the future of science' 2021"

Invisibility cloaks. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A Facebook for genes. These were just a few of the startling topics IFTF explored at our recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the "Future of Science." More than a dozen scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Scripps Research Institute, SETI, and private industry shared their edgiest research driving transformations in science. MythBusters' Adam Savage weighed in on the future of science education. All of their presentations were signals supporting IFTF's new "Future of Science" forecast, laid out in a new map titled "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021." The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in
scientific research.

We are delighted to share the map with you, under a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. We hope you enjoy it and find it provocative. Think of "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021" as a star chart of possibility, pointing the way toward opportunities for wonder, knowledge, and insight. Use it to raise questions about how your life and work may change in light of the startling transformations that science may bring about in the next ten years. Indeed, every forecast could be rephrased as a "what if" question. What if you could record your dreams? What if you could design a life form? What if you could launch a company in orbit? Your answers to those questions can help inform decisions in the present. Inside this map, you'll find plenty of space to think.

Ales204 Blog and Analytics

Miarcel Salanthe created Webpages As Graphs, a visualizer applet that will turn any weblink into a graphic form. You can view the graph being plotted in real-time as little colored nodes branch out into snowflake-like patterns. Each color dot represents a certain aspect of the web structure, such as blue if for links, red is for tables, violet for images and so on.
Webpages As Graphs uses Processing, Traer Physics and HTMLParser. Salathe has also provided instructions on how to print out the graph into poster-size.

via PSFK.


Have a look at our own "snowflake"

Image created here. 

Lecture 33: Online Class

•Online class! By the end of class (9:50) please complete the following exercise:

•As the new editor–in–chief of a significant journal published by Reed Elsevier you would like to modernize the academic publishing process. You are eager to implement “open peer review” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_peer_review even after Nature’s experiment with this form of peer review failed (see http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature05535.html). However, a more recent experiment by Noah Wardrip-Fruin on the Grand Text Auto blog was more successful (see http://grandtextauto.org/2009/05/12/blog-based-peer-review-four-surprises/).  Do you try to convince your colleagues to try open peer review or are you daunted by examples such as Nature’s?

•Upload your 3-5-paragraph response to Google docs. Make sure you share your document so it is visible to anyone and add a link to the document as a comment on the Lecture 33 post. Be sure to e-mail the link to your TA and I as well. 

Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

Today we'll be doing some group work using the reading that was assigned for homework:

Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

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Lecture 31: Google Docs

Lecture 31: Google Docs

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Lecture 30: Interview Analysis

Today's lecture is going to be in two parts. Those of you who have been following along on Twitter, would have seen that we'll have fellow student, Ian McNeill tall us about some software development he's made using what he's learnt in #ALES204. Exciting!

 This is what Ian says about his presentation:

LMS stands for "Learning Management System" and is used in one form or another by practically every company today.  LMS software has a large variety of different purposes, but they all follow the same structural format (Information presentation followed by Testing and online).  Over the last year and a half I have been making my own LMS software and you will notice much of what we learned in ALES 204 has been incorporated into the presentations!

For the second half of the class (if time permits), we'll practise analysing an interview. You will have the opportunity to find an interview related to your interest or field, and then you can analyse it using a google doc which can be found here.

Note: PLEASE make sure you *save a copy* of the google doc rather than simply writing in it! more like a workshop where you'll have most of the class to practise what we've been covering all week.

Lecture 30 interview analysis short version

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Using Google for Research

During the lectures I often noted how useful google can be to find academic research. We talked about using google scholar and the advanced search function. With that in mind, I'm sure you'll appreciate this infographic from Jenica Rhee.



Created by: HackCollege

Here is Xiaoming's and Arisha's post from Audioboo! Great work ladies!

http://audioboo.fm/xjia3

Courtney

CSL Lab's Audioboo's

Hello folks!

Here is my CSL lab's audioboo recordings. They did an excellent job (I am so impressed by these ladies!). Their interview was a journalistic style, since this made most sense based on aligning this work with what they are doing in CSL for their placements.

They interviewed each other and in small groups, sicne we have such a small class and this was great practice for them. What I have suggested, since they have done the itnerviews about their placements (the key pieces of info on their placements) is that they could perhaps offer these recordings to their placement coordinators to be used as a promo or info pweice for their actual placements.

Linking all their work in labs, and what they've learned from class, to the course assignments and their placements has been critical to them, and has offered them added value in practicing relevant tasks from learned skills so that they can use these in 'real life', in their placements.

Thanks folks!
Courtney Hughes

Kalin, Cassandra and Jamie on SustainSU
http://boos.audioboo.fm/attachments/1829913/sustain-su.mp3?audio_clip_id=557327

Tania and Angele on Writer's Guild
http://audioboo.fm/boos/557282-tania-boyko-s-interview

Wagma and Jiayue on U of A's Infolink
http://audioboo.fm/boos/557295-infolink-interview?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Arisha (Voices for Choices) and Xiaoming's (Alberta CareGivers Association) are TBA - I will post it once they get it done :)

Lecture 29: Interviews

During the first partner assignment, the article in which Alison Redford is quoted is below: AlbertaPremier on path to push province toward its potential


Lecture 29:   interviews

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Lecture 28: Podcasting & Interview Techniques

Happy Monday everyone!

Lecture 28 Podcasting and Interview Techniques

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Module 12 Labs

In labs this week you'll have the opportunity to practise the interviewing and podcasting information we're talking about all week. I know you just can't wait!

Some of the things you're going to be doing:

image from audio boo.fm

1. Find a partner
2. Together, read through this handout
3. Choose whether you will ask employment questions, behavioural questions or journalistic questions
4. Take a few minutes to create some questions for each other
5. Conduct your interviews and record it using audioboo (your TA can help you)
6. Remember, you have the choice to announce your real name in the interview or use an alias
7. Think about your voice, breathing and pacing.
8. Share the link to your audioboo recording with your TA.

Read more in the google doc here.

Lecture 27: E-mail and Professionalism

Today we have Marie-Claude showering us with another great presentation.

(will be see any photos of her cute puppy?!)

Mc lecture 27

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Lecture 26: E-Mail Etiquette

For fun, read this article by Ms. Mentor: "Don't E-Mail Me This Way"

Lecture 26 email etiquette

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Lecture 25: LinkedIn for Students

Welcome to a brand new week everyone!

Today we'll be introduced to LinkedIn and we'll have a little bit of time during the lecture to register and begin our exploration with LinkedIn and how it can be useful to you as students.




A reminder about the science article assignment which is due on Friday (the 18th) at 17:00. You must send your assignment via e-mail (yes, e-mail!) to BOTH your TA and myself. If you are doing option four and have chosen the poster option, you need to send your assignment to us via e-mail and then (if you have decided to do a physical poster) you can give me the poster on Monday before we start class (otherwise, an attachment with your e-poster is fine!).

Social Media and ALES204 Students

In academia there continues to be a lot (a lot!) of discussion about the pros and cons of allowing (or enabling?!) students to use social media in class. There are quite a few (the majority it seems) of professors and teachers who think students should NOT use laptops or smartphones in class. They are a distraction is the oft' touted reason. Well students of #ALES204, you know I think differently! And, in many of our lectures I've tried to highlight why it is so important that we all learn to become digitally literate. It is more than just using Facebook, but learning to use it for specific purposes (like to promote oneself for a job) and learning to make some aspects of our profiles private. We're also learning that tweeting about research-related information can generate new connections - possibly even with future employees.

So, it is with this in mind that I share with you an infographic sent to me from Jenica Rhee. It is called The Digital Promise. What do you think?

Lecture 24: Online Class

Photo by Jessica Laccetti.

Today is your opportunity to work on your Wikipedia assignment! Take this time to add to your stub. Remember, you need to write 300-600 words AND, since this assignment is also part of your e-portfolio, you need to follow those guidelines.

As a reminder, the Wikipedia assignment is here and the e-portfolio assignment is here and the rubric is here.

Lecture 23: Wikis & Writing

IMPORTANT: Online class on Wednesday so you can work on your Wikipedia assignment!!

Note: As discussed in class, after choosing your stub article, check the revision history to make sure no one is currently (as of today) working on the stub. Then, add an edit (perhaps a quotation or reference) so that anyone can see that the stub article is now being worked on. Also, if you wish, you can add a comment on today's blog post noting (with a link) which stub article you are working on.

Although Wikipedia does use a WYSIWYG editor, you might want to use Wiki MarkUp. You can find out more about Wiki MarkUp Language (in order to add bulleted lists or bold and italicise your work), look here and here.

Read about our Wikipedia assignment here. But here is a short summary:

In this assignment, each student will update one "stub," or incomplete article in Wikipedia, to a complete encyclopedic article. Ideally, we would like your article to qualify for "Good Article" status. For reference, less than 1% of the articles on Wikipedia achieve this status, so this is no small feat!
Here a few caveats to keep in mind for this assignment:

• You will need to learn some basic wiki code. The code is not difficult, and there is a graphical editor with buttons to insert links and the like.
• Others can (and will) alter your contribution. In most cases, other users will add to and occasionally correct your work. But your work could be vandalized or deleted. You can always change the page back to what it was before, but such "revert wars" are frowned upon.
• The entire Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means you do not own the articles you work on.
• There is no standard length for a Wikipedia article. For the purposes of this assignment, a reasonable article will contain 300-600 words, which correspond to 1.5-3 pages of standard double-space text.

Part 1: Select a stub (needs to be done BEFORE your lab)

• Read the Wikipedia Getting Started page.
• Create an account .
• Find a "stub" that you would like to complete to a full article. Here is a list of stubs. Particular stub categories that may be of interest include Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease
•  stubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Endocrine,_nutritional_and_metabolic_disease_stubs) and the Alberta Research Council stub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Research_Council) . Here are tips for picking a good stub.

Lecture 23 Wikis & Writing

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Lecture 22: RefWorks Workshop

Today we have Angie, TA to some of you, here to guide us through a hands-on workshop with RefWorks. Diane showed this to us on Wednesday and today we get to really practise using it.

Remember, please tweet three reflections on today's lecture to both myself
(@JessL) and to Angie (@charleston_chiu)

Here is Angie's lecture:

Ales 204 presentation nov 4

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Labs Module 10

Remember all, those of you in the Thursday lab will need to try to join Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday's lab next week because the university is closed on Thursday so no lab will be running then!!!

Please e-mail your TA for any further help on locations and/or times of labs.

You can also see this blog post about the labs and locations.

Flickr and Image Citation

After yesterday's lecture (thanks again Diane!!), I've had lots of questions about how to cite Flickr images that you find using a Creative Commons search and how to cite your own images.

Well, please take a look at this very thorough document that Diane made for us. Here is the link to it on google docs.

Remember, this is the format you will use in your e-portfolios when you include images. You will also use this citation method if you include any images in your assignments (such as your science article assignment).

Lecture 21: APA, Citation & Science

Image from the University of Alberta library guide profile.

Today we will have the pleasure of a lecture from Diane Clark, ALES librarian at the University of Alberta. Diane will wow us with all things APA.

During Diane's talk, please send three tweets reflecting on her talk to both of us: @JessL AND @di_clark. Also, feel free to ask Diane, via Twitter, any questions you might have. Be prepared too, as Diane might ask you to respond to her during her presentation using tweets!

Read a bit about Diane here and here.

More Student Social Media Use

Wow! I'm so proud how you students keep learning and showing how you're developing your communication skills. In response to Julianna's vlog the other day, here is Annalise Young and Kelsey MacDonald:


 



Why don't you have a try at making a vlog or using another social media tool and I'll share it here! Keep the conversation going!

Labs Module 9

Image from Webster University.

This week labs will be devoted to practising and perfecting your APA referencing style. This way you'll be ready not only for our own science assignment...but any other essay or article or poster you create for any of your other courses!

Here is the worksheet that I'd like you to work on during the lab: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H5Oj4TMvVlv8NjzX9AugNrXh1ifoqmslS1j6UsAQO4k/edit

And, when you've completed the worksheet, try your hand at this quiz! You can work with a partner: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshowall.php?title=apa-citation-practice-quiz

Social Media & Student Use

I just want to say how proud I am of all of you and how well you're harnessing social media to further your learning and collaboration.

I thought I would highlight student work when it is brought to my attention. Here is a great example of an ALES204 students (Julianna Damer) using YouTube to broadcast her thoughts and connect with other classmates. Feel free to comment here to start a discussion with Julianna and/or to let me know what you've been up to. Perhaps you've made a video or a google doc that you'd like me to share with the class?

Lecture 20: Flickr, Image Citation and Copyright

In today's lecture we shall look explicitly at image citation (especially now that we all use flickr) and what creative commons means in terms of copyright.

Lecture 20: Creative Commons & Copyright

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Poster Competition!

The Students’ Union Undergraduate Research Symposium is taking place on November 17-18, with the poster competition taking place in the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences from the morning to early afternoon on November 18.

Originally, the deadline for students’ abstract submissions was on October 28; however, the deadline has been extended to Wednesday November 2 at 5pm. Although the deadline has been extended, please endeavour to submit abstracts as soon as possible (submitting them by October 28 is ideal).

The submission form can be found at  http://www.su.ualberta.ca/governance/executives/projects/urs/. Questions may be directed to the SU Vice-President Academic e-mail at vp.academic@su.ualberta.ca.

Employability & Social Media Use

Students should find this infographic very informative!

Infographic by Reppler via Mashable.

Lecture 19: Reviewing Science Articles

Today Pam will guest lecture and lead us on how to review a science article.

She will have a powerpoint which will be posted here.

Peer Review: Guest Lecture by Pam

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E-Portfolio Rubric

Seeing as next week is e-portfolio week, here is the rubric that we will use to mark your work. This should guide you when you craft and design your posts.

As always, e-mail me should you have any questions!

Remember to comment on someone else's blog.

See the rubric about the final reflective blog post - remember to add all your four (or more) comments in your blog post and have them linked.

Remember too, if you want to review what is required of the e-portoflio, see here for the google doc which I recommend that you PRINT out for your easy reference:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17P4d3DQvb7MRGSfNkTiwOEHlNXzZpPwXL2HkcXjbmVE/edit?hl=en_US


Remember, no labs this week.

Lecture 18: Science Article Writing

Today we have a guest lecture from Kaustav! Please remember to send three tweets to @JessL about what you're learning from Kaustav's lecture. Please also tweet back to a fellow student - start a discussion about what you're learning.

Ales 204: Kaustav Guest Lecture on Academic Writing in Science

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Remember, next week is e-portfolio week! It's your chance to work on your own topic of a blog post and perhaps start drafting your reflective blog post. You can add your twitter feed and in general spruce up your e-portfolios!

Science Article Assignment

This week in labs you will be given the Science Article Assignment and you will have the duration of the lab to discussion the options with the TA. By the end of the lab, you will let your TA know which option you will be doing.

You can always check the google doc of the assignment too.

Note: Sometimes the google doc seems to have some issues with Option 1. So here is a google doc JUST of Option 1:.

Remember there are four options, you just need to pick one.

Some Requirements:

Due: Friday, November 18th, 17:00;
Length: 750-1250 words;
Format: Memorandum (single-spaced text; double-spaced between headings and paragraphs);
Publication: Via E-mail to Dr. Laccetti (laccettiATualberta.ca) AND to your TA;

Infographic: World Food Crisis

I thought this infographic would be of interest to #ALES2-4 students, perhaps especially those concerned with the environment and health/nutrition:
Created by: Public Health Degree

E-Portfolio & Delicious Tag Clouds

Hi everyone!

Part of your e-portfolio requirements call for you to embed a tag cloud of your delicious sites.

However, delicious has been sold to another company that does not want to support the tag clouds! This means you cannot easily go on to delicious and find the information required to embed your tag cloud.

 You can read about the problems with tag clouds and why the new company is not supporting them: http://support.delicious.com/delicious/topics/where_did_the_tag_cloud_go?from_gsfn=true

So, the e-portfolio will *NOT* require you to include a delicious feed.

Should you want to try a work around.

Follow these steps:

 Log in to your blogger account
Go to your blog's dashboard
Choose to go to Layout
"add a gadget" to your sidebar
Choose the "html/javascript option
Paste the following information into the white box:
 [LEFT HTML BRACKET]script type="text/javascript" src="http: //feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/USERNAME?title=TITLETEXT&icon&count=NUMERAL&sort=freq&flow=cloud&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-20"[RIGHT HTML BRACKET][LEFT HTML BRACKET]/script[RIGHT HTML BRACKET]


 Make sure you CHANGE the USERNAME to your delicious name.



OR try pasting in this information:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/ALES204?title=My%20Delicious%20Tags&icon&count=100&sort=alpha&flow=cloud&name&showadd&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-35"></script>

BUT change ALES204 to YOUR delicious username.




Click Save This *should* work but because it is not supported by delicious, it is not guaranteed to work.

Try this but don't worry if you are not successful!

Lecture 17: Science Journal Articles

In today's lecture we will review the elements of a scientific paper:

Abstract

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Works Cited/References

The second example of an abstract comes from this article: 

Green Tea Consumption Is Inversely Associated with the Incidence of Influenza Infection among Schoolchildren in a Tea Plantation Area of Japan

you can read the abstract here or the entire paper here.

Also very useful is this article: Writing the Empirical Journal Article by

Daryl J. Bem
He gives some very useful examples of opening statements and how to present your findings.

Lecture 17: Elements of an Academic Paper

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Image from OWL at Purdue.

For further reading, check this out: HOW TO WRITE A SCIENTIFIC PAPER FOR A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL by PHIL LANG

#ALES204 Blog Stats

I thought you all would be interested to know that in this young blog's life (only 2 months old!), we have already had over 14 THOUSAND people coming to view your work! Congratulations!


Here is some information on the most popular blog posts, where people are coming from and how they find us.

Also of interest, are the words people use to search for us. The most common are:

ales 204
university of alberta blog
jessica laccetti class blog
science blog agriculture

CSL Lab

Hello All from the CSl lab!

Wanted to give everyone access to the individual student blog links and their facebook profile pages (because I compiled the two). Please check out my students' blog spots for updates on their placements and cool things they're doing.

Its been a blast with them so far - they are very bright minds and motivated young stars and I am enjoying my time learning about their placements and mentoring them with their projects.

Have a great day all!

Courtney

ALES 204 CSL Student Blog and Facebook Links

Cassandra McKenzie

Blog: http://cassandra-mckenzie.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002969678463&sk=wall

Kalin Herbach

Blog: http://nutrjunkie.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002972767676&sk=wall

Tania Boyko

Blog: http://taniasales204blog.blogspot.com/

Facebook: NA (completed a paper copy)

Jiayue Chen

Blog: http://lunaislunatic.blogspot.com/

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003042890997#!/profile.php?id=100002971327531

Arisha Seeras

Blog: http://areekatz.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002957257717

Xiaoming Jia

Blog: http://xiaomingales204.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Health-Promotion/264024523629722

Angele L’Heureux

Blog: http://alheureu.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Angele-LHeureux/216000341794778?sk=info

Duo (Randy) Zhi

Blog: http://littlewarrior525.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002980090224&sk=info

Wagma Rashid

Blog: http://wagma8.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002986062410&viewas=100002986062410&returnto=profile

Jamie Desautels

Blog: http://ales-jamie.blogspot.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002974417479

Undergraduate Research Symposium

A GREAT way to get involved in the research scene:

Abstracts are being accepted for the Students' Union's upcoming Undergraduate Research Symposium, which is being held in conjunction with the newly-launched Undergraduate Research Initiative, and with partners such as the Alumni Association. The symposium, which takes place November 17 and 18, is set to become one of Canada's largest and preeminent undergraduate research symposiums, with over 100 undergraduate research presentations in a November 18 poster competition, and over $10,000 in award funding for outstanding undergraduate research projects.

In order to increase the awareness of this event, I would be grateful if you could forward this e-mail to undergraduate students that currently or recently participated in undergraduate research. The symposium is open to current undergraduate students in all disciplines at the University of Alberta. A link to the Students' Union undergraduate research page can be found by going to su.ualberta.ca and http://www.su.ualberta.ca/governance/executives/projects/urs/.

Abstract submissions are due by October 28 at the end of the day. Students must submit a 250-word maximum abstract and explain their research in basic terms. Moreover, University of Alberta Libraries has provided guidelines for students preparing abstracts and posters through an online resource athttp://guides.library.ualberta.ca/undergraduateresearch. There is no cost for undergraduate students entering the symposium.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at vp.academic@su.ualberta.ca or at 780.492.4236. I look forward to seeing your ALES undergraduate students at the inaugural Students' Union and University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Symposium. 

Conference Opportunity for ALES204 Undergrads

Nominations are now open for participation in the third annual 2012 AP/IB conference scheduled for Saturday March 10, 2012 in CCIS.  This is a fantastic opportunity for U of A faculty members to share their research with a super engaged group of high achieving Grade 11 & 12 students from across Alberta.  ALES has had panel representation in each of the past two years and I encourage faculty members from all program areas and departments to consider sharing their expertise at the 2012 conference.   The theme for 2012 remains unchanged from last year and is Exploring Global Change. 

Action Item: If you would like to be considered as a panel presenter at this event, please respond to me by Friday, October 28 with your name, along with 2-3 sentences describing the topic on which you are willing to present as it relates to the Exploring Global Change theme.  I will forward all names received by October 28 to the planning committee who is responsible for final speaker selection.

Background information on the event is provided below, as well as in the attached 2011 conference program. 

For information on past conferences you can refer to the conference site:

http://www.admissions.ualberta.ca/en/ProgramsAndRequirements/Admission-Routes/IB-International-Baccalaureate/IB-Student-Conference.aspx

Other information you may need:

What is the event called: 2012 AP/IB Conference: Exploring Global Change

Date of the event: Saturday, March 10, 2012

Where is it being held: CCIS (new and exciting location this year!)

Tentative schedule of the day (NOTE: this is subject to change):

9:00 – 9:30 – Greetings
9:30 – 10:30 – Session 1

10:30 – 11:30 – Session 2
11:30 – 11:45 – Break

11:45 – 12:45 – Morning discussion seminar

12:45 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 – Session 3
2:30 – 3:30 – Session 4

3:30 – 3:45 – Break

3:45 – 4:45 – Afternoon discussion seminar

4:45 – 5:15 – Prize draw, essay contest information

Lecture 16: CV Writing Workshop

Today the TAs and I are going to show you our own CVs. I have had great luck with mine, landing an interview each time I've used it - so I'm an aficionado of this style. But, there are lots of different styles out there and some exciting ideas. Pamela has suggested looking at the templates over here. Another reminder that we'll be using the more academic version, a CV, rather than the North American version of a résumé:

A curriculum vitae (CV) provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment. The curriculum vitae is comparable to a résumé in many countries, although in English Canada and the United States it is substantially different.

A résumé is a simpler document while the CV is expected to thoroughly outline your education and your professional history (think jobs, volunteer work, publications, presentations etc...). In the words of the University of Waterloo's Career Services:



What is a curriculum vitae?
 A presentation of credentials for a research/teaching position in a university, a research institute,
or company with R&D requirements. A résumé (two pages maximum) is prepared for employers
outside the academic and research environment
 An indispensable job hunting tool that represents an objective, factual, personal history of you -
an advertisement designed to market you by highlighting your abilities and future potential
 A summary of your career aspirations, educational background, employment experience,
achievements, and interests




Key headings to include in your cv:

• Name
• Address/Telephone/Email
• Citizenship
• 
  
• Research and/or Professional Inter ests
• Education/Professional  Training/Certifications
• Employment
• Publications
• Presentations
• Awards/Scholarships
• Professional Affiliations
• Volunteer Work
• Languages
• Hobbies

Here are some creative takes on CVs:

From McGill University, here is a useful video outlining the elements of a cv. Also from McGill, a very handy cv writing guide.




HOMEWORK due before Monday's Class:

Students will choose two researchers in their field who use delicious and write a paragraph (as a blog comment on THIS post) noting:

• The importance of each researcher
• The types of resources each researcher bookmarks
• The clarity and/or style of tagging that each researcher employs

Remember, if you post a comment under an alias, make sure I know who you are by sending me an e-mail!






For those of you who don't read the comments. Here is some additional help:



Some ways to find people using delicious.




You might check out the scientists you have followed on Twitter and see if any of them use delicious (look at their blogs)



You can also do a google search for researchers/key people in your field, have a look at their blogs and see if they have a delicious tag cloud.




I know I was involved with an creative writing new media online course and I was interested in their delicious links: http://www.delicious.com/cwnm


Howard Rheingold, a key player in my field and in new media in general (you might be interested too!): http://delicious.com/hrheingold


I mentioned in class (and on my cv) that I'm part of the Transliteracy Research Group so I keep up to date with those bookmarks too: http://www.delicious.com/transliteracy

Of course, our class is on delicious too: http://delicious.com/ales204






An interesting article on how to use delicious in research: go here




Note: delicious is still working out some bugs due to the move from Yahoo... you can read about it here.