WCER Graduate Training Brownbag Series 2010-11

NVivo 8 Web Demo

Bring your lunch and your questions to this live web demonstration, given by an NVivo representative!
Learn how to: Code sources in a variety of media, run queries, create charts, work as a team, export your data, and more!

"SOE's Methodological Course Landscape," with Beth Graue, Eric Camburn, and Jim Wollack.

Are you wondering how you will attain the necessary methodological background to complete your thesis or dissertation? Come hear about the new Ph.D. minor in Qualitative Methodology & Methods in Education, and explore some of your methodological course options.

WCER Poster Fair

The poster fair celebrates the work of WCER researchers. Come find out about their interesting work. Get new ideas & appreciate the rich environment here.

Academic Tech Tools: Organizing Your Work in the Electronic Age, with Jon Martin, Rebecca Holz, and Allan Barclay.

John Martin, from DoIT's Academic Technology department, will facilitate a discussion of the various electronic resources for organizing your research and ideas, keeping track of articles and other PDFs, and more. Come share what you know, and get new ideas in the process!

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John Martin's heart is in expeditionary learning, and his doctoral research considered the use of mobile devices to connect people to the land and to each other at a deep woods camp in Maine. He now works for UW-Madison's Academic Technology, and develops tools (like ARIS) and processes (like Digital Storytelling) to support informal and formal learning environments and communities. He thinks people learn more by doing things than by studying them, and is excited that modern mobile devices have become Swiss Army Tools for learning and research. He blogs at times.

Rebecca Holz is a librarian at the UW-Madison Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. Her responsibilities include web development, technology tools & instruction, and scholarly communication & publishing support.  Her interests include mobile devices, 'open' everything, bibliometrics and data-visualization. She likes to build, and introduce people to, tools that facilitate free and open access to data and information.

Allan R. Barclay is a senior academic librarian at the Ebling Library for the Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His responsibilities include web development, web and technology education, and technical consultation and development for collaborative projects. His interests include games and simulations for health care, graphic and interaction design, advocacy and education about open access tools, and research data curation.

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"Getting Involved in Professional Activities as a Graduate Student, part 1," with School of Education graduate students Megan Anderson, Lauren Gatti, and Melissa Gibson.

Come and hear how these SoE graduate students have gotten involved in a variety of professional activities, on campus and beyond. Learn more about submitting to, reviewing for, and presenting at conferences and other meetings, and hear about how these folks have optimized their campus involvement and professional presence. Bring your lunch and join the conversation!

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"Getting Involved in Professional Activities as a Graduate Student, part 2,"with School of Education graduate students Katy Swalwell, Shusaku Horibe, and Garrett Smith.

Please join us for a panel discussion featuring three SoE grad students who are pursuing a variety of professional opportunities while in graduate school. Our panelists will speak on topics such as how they go about submitting to and presenting at conferences, how they started reviewing books and articles, how they came to serve on campus-wide and departmental committees, and how they have created their own opportunities for involvement and advancement. We have so much to learn from each other!