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| Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) News Summary Administration | Curriculum | Events/Forum | Technology Victoria Szabo began working in ISIS as the Program Coordinator in August, 2006. She came to us from the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University where she was the Academic Technology Manager. ISIS’s offices moved from the Franklin Center basement to the second floor. Program Director Victoria Szabo is in room 218 and Program Coordinator Cristin Paul in room 220. The move proved to be very beneficial to ISIS and gave the program a much-needed central location with a lot of traffic. Cathy Davidson blogged ISIS in an entry for the MacArthur Foundation’s Spotlight: Blogging the Field of Digital Media and Learning. Discussion began about ISIS’ future under the Provost. Duke administration felt ISIS would be better represented under Arts & Sciences and steps began to make the move. During the Fall 2006 semester, ISIS offered 4 classes. Two were a part of the Game2Know Focus cluster and are listed below. Also offered were:
The ISIS Focus Cluster “Game2Know” held 16 students and offered 6 classes:
“How They Got Game” and the IDC utilized the IMPS space in the Franklin In October, ISIS Program Director Victoria Szabo created a Gallery space on the ISIS website where student work is displayed. A slideshow of the Game2Know students’ The Gnasher Museum: An Exhibit in SecondLife project is located here. On October 25, 2006 the Chronicle featured an article on the eFlyer project completed by Spring 2006 ISIS 200 students Patrick Cleary, Audra Eagle, Georgiana Ivy, Ajay Kori, Ryan Morgan and Peter North. The article was called “Students establish eFlyering.” ISIS created two new course to be offered in the Spring:
ISIS hosted two Game Nights during the Fall semester. The Back-to-School event was held on August 30, 2006 and the second on October 25, 2006. Both events attracted about 20 students who played XBox 360, Playstation 2, PC and Atari games in the IMPS space. TechTuesdays were again a successful forum during the fall. Each of the following sessions were attended by 20-25 staff and faculty: August 22, 2006: Eyal Fried Eyal Fried is an Interaction Designer and Social researcher, now operating from Israel. With an academic background in psychology and communication, Eyal has done web design work in New York, research with the PLAY research studio of the Interactive Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Human-Computer research and design for MAX Interactive in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He graduated from the postgraduate program at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII), Ivrea, Italy, where he worked experimentally and commercially with physical computing and interactive spaces. He is now collaborating with the ID-Lab, an IDII spin-off. Eyal is currently teaching at Shenkar Design and Engineering Academy and the Holon Institute of Technology , and is a co-founder of the B-Lab, an Interaction Design experimental initiative. September 5, 2006: Rachael Brady This talk is dedicated to Pricilla Wald, who wants to know what, exactly, Rachael Brady does on a day-to-day basis. September 19, 2006: Wayne Miller, Ken Hirsh and Melanie Dunshee Specifically, Wayne, Ken, and Melanie will discuss technology and techniques for the online presence of: their print journals; their online journals; their scholarship repository at http://eprints.law.duke.edu (which currently contains over 1000 articles); and their database of faculty scholarship that feeds their faculty bibliographies and our recent faculty scholarship page (accessible via http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/facpub.html). October 17, 2006: Fred Stutzman October 31, 2006: Peter North, Kyle Johnson and Jessica Mitchell November 14, 2006: Paolo Mangiafico Paolo Mangiafico, Digital Project Consultant with Duke University Libraries, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of digital preservation, and what libraries, archives, and universities are doing to meet them. November 18, 2006: Ricardo Pietrobon On September 6, 2006 TechTuesday was featured in the Chronicle’s article “TechTuesdays lectures highlights Duke research.” ISIS co-sponsored Romance Studies for the talk “Care of the Self in the Hyperreal” given by Mark Poster on September 28, 2006. On October 31 and November 1, 2006 ISIS co-sponsored a lecture series on ontology and its relevance to data management and biomedical research by Barry Smith, Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ISIS sponsored Chuck Messer as a speaker for Wednesdays at the Center on November 1, 2006. His talked was entitled “Free Design and the Open-Source Hardware Movement.” On November 30, 2006, ISIS coordinated a get-together in Second Life between HASTAC and Stanford University called “Life to the Second Power (L2)” featuring Lynn Hershman Leeson. It was well received by an audience with interest in both HASTAC and Second Life. In December registration began for the Podcast Academy V to be held February 13-15, 2007. PAV is to be sponsored by Duke, ISIS and GigaVox Media, Inc. On December 3, 2006 ISIS and ACM collaborated on an evening gaming event for students. It was held in LSRC and attracted at least 50 students who played Nintendo Wii, XBox 360, Playstation and other games in classrooms on all three levels of the building. Richard Lucic presented information on ISIS. ISIS was given approval to use endowment funds to update the M3C cluster. They have been refurbished with new batteries and more memory. The software has also been updated and new additions have been made. Please see the link above for up to date information. Again, in October, ISIS Program Director Victoria Szabo created a Gallery space on the ISIS website where student work is displayed.
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