Caroline B. Sinkinson's blog

3/6 Is Everything a List? Introduction to Workflowy

How technology, analytics & social networking helped secure a reelection:
• Meet the social media engineering team that helped reelect Obama
4-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2

Free and open to the public; reservations recommended.
Reserve your seats – http://ofaatlasstudent.eventbrite.com
Seating is limited and first-come, first-served.
Audience members are advised to arrive at least 10 minutes early.

Come to this workshop to learn how Mendeley helps you store, organize, read, and cite academic publications.

12:00- 1:00 Norlin Library Room E113 map

Bring your Lunch and join us for an hour of Learning!

For more information contact: caroline.sinkinson@colorado.edu or alison.hicks@colorado.edu
Calendar: http://bit.ly/ucbworkshops

Which typeface is friendlier: Futura or Impact? How does tracking differ from kerning, and why does it matter? Or does it? If you’ve ever asked yourself questions like these, you may be a “type wonk.” That’s okay, though, you’re not alone. In fact, type should matter to everyone. After all, it says everything about how we communicate with text and it can underscore or derail our message with a single click.

Tired of wasting time tediously formatting your works cited page? In this workshop, participants will learn to use Zotero, a free citation management program. Zotero allows users to quickly capture, organize, and cite references to a variety of sources such as journal articles, websites, blogs, and even photos. Led by Megan Bresnahan

Norlin Library Room E113 map
12:00- 1:00

Bring your Lunch and join us for an hour of Learning!

Papers is “your personal library of research”, a reference management tool designed to help you collaborate, discover and work more productively. This introductory workshop will help you get started with the basics of finding, organizing, annotating and citing articles in Papers for Windows and iOS as well as Mac. While Papers is not free, student discounts are available. The workshop will also provide a comparison of Papers with other popular citation and research manager tools. Led by Alison Hicks

Norlin Library Room E113
12:00- 1:00

Come learn about Trello, a free, simple, and powerful web-based project management/collaboration tool. Trello provides a highly visual approach to projects; consisting of boards, lists, and cards. At it’s simplest, Trello is an online version of a whiteboard with sticky notes. However, Trello offers many powerful features including comments, checklists, due dates, file attachments, notifications, and strong collaborative tools. With Trello you can quickly and easily see what is being worked on, who is working on what, and where something is in a process.

Do you have thousands of emails in your inbox?

Do your emails sit for days (weeks?!) flagged, started, and marked unread, only to remind you to do something later?

Do you experiment or innovate with new technology in your courses? Do you explore new technologies in your scholarship, and then integrate them into the classroom? Are you interested in meeting others who do the same, sharing your experiences, and learning more?

Learner's Lunch: Fall 2012 Workshop Series

Norlin Library Room E113

Wednesdays 12:00-1:00

Bring your lunch and join us for an hour of learning.

Calendar:  http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/reference/researchassistance.htm

9/5 Getting to Know Your MAC

Both the Office of Information Technology and the University Libraries are dedicated to serving the swiftly changing needs of the campus community. We seek methods which authentically capture and assess the needs of students and faculty. Towards that end, OIT and the University Libraries invited 12 staff members to attend a Participatory Design workshop led by Nancy Foster, a nationally-known researcher and anthropologist from the University of Rochester, on August 7th and 8th, 2012.

Alison Hicks: Romance Language Librarian, University of Colorado, Boulder