PhD Student Orientation Schedule 2006
From GSLISWiki
Contents |
[edit] Formal PhD Student Orientation
The formal PhD Student Orientation for 2006 will be held:
Monday, August 21, 2006
Doc Study (Location)
This is the afternoon following the main GSLIS orientation.
- 3:00 pm - Meet the Dean
- Dean John Unsworth will be stopping by to introduce himself, and answer any questions you may have.
- 3:15 pm - Getting Started
- All new PhD students will meet with the PhD Student Orientation Committee in the Doc Study along with any PhD student volunteers who are able to make it.
- New students will be given the PhD Student Orientation Guide handout, as well as a copy of this schedule.
- We will also present an overview of the PhD program at GSLIS
- Other Issues:
- Those who cannot attend the meeting who want to send their greetings and welcome the new students to the department
- Graduate Teaching Certificate
- Research Writing Group
- Center for Children's Books (CCB)
- Other Groups at GSLIS:
- "CSCW" Group:
- Metadata Roundtable (MDRT):
- Electronic Publishing Research Group (EPRG):
- Inquiry Research Group
- Young Adult Book Club (YA Book Club)
- Storytelling Guild
- GSLIS Chinese Group:
- Recreation:
- Friday Symposium
- Board Game Night
- 4:00 pm - Brief Introduction to the LIS Library by Sandy Wolf and Stephanie Atkins
- 4:10 pm - Pizza, snacks with all PhD Students, Faculty, and Staff
- Introductions:
- Name
- Year/Position (Job)
- Area(s) of Interest
- Eat and Socialize
- 5:00 pm - Optional Tour of GSLIS
- For anybody who wants one.
[edit] Informal PhD Student Welcome Potluck Dinner
Every year we have an informal Potluck for all PhD students, to provide an opportunity for the new students to get to know the rest of their classmates. All PhD students are invited to bring themselves and their family or friends, including spouses, significant others, children, parents, etc. New students do not have to bring any dishes, but they can if they would like to. Everybody else needs to bring one dish, some drinks, or a dessert.
Signup for what you want to bring at: PhD Potluck 2006
- When
- Saturday, September 9, 2006
- 6:00 pm
- Where
- Cameron, Jin Ha, & Gabriel's rented house.
- Bring
- 1 Dish of Food, Drinks, or Dessert.
- For more details
- PhD Potluck 2006
We encourage all PhD students to attend!
[edit] Orientation Links
[edit] Links on the unofficial GSLIS wiki
The unofficial GSLIS wiki: http://www.gslis.org/
PhD Student Orientation Guide: http://www.gslis.org/index.php?title=PhD_Student_Orientation_Guide
New Student Orientation: http://www.gslis.org/index.php?title=New_Student_Orientation
Other Orientation related links on the unofficial GSLIS wiki: http://www.gslis.org/index.php?title=Category:Orientation
[edit] PhD Student Orientation Committee Members and Volunteers
Feel free to contact any of us at any time when you have any questions about the program, GSLIS, or life in Urbana Champaign in general. (For more info about the committee, see the PhD Student Orientation Committee page.)
- Organizers
- Volunteers
Feel free to sign up if you want to help out.
[edit] More Info on Student Groups
[edit] Eclectic Design Research Group
Historically called the CSCW Group, we are a group of students, all of whom work with, take classes from, or are otherwise associated with Professor Mike Twidale. Our interests range broadly accross the spectrum, including everything from museum studies to computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), from human-computer interaction (HCI) to sociotechnical systems, from knowledge management (KM) to distance education. Common themes that cut accross all of these areas include design, rapid iteration, rapid prototyping, and evaluation techniques. Anybody and everybody is welcome to join us. We welcome and yearn for diverse perspectives and contributions.
We try to meet weekly, either at a coffee house, or in the ISRL. The goal of the meetings is to brainstorm ideas, and to get feedback about current interests or research projects. Sometimes, individuals will "present" at the meetings. Such "presentations" can be formal power point presentations, but are usually more along the lines of, "Hey, I was thinking about..."
Join us by signing up on our mailing list, by emailing Cameron Jones, or by showing up at our meetings. This semester we will meet Thursday afternoons from 3-5 pm, starting in the ISRL unless otherwise announced.
[edit] Electronic Publishing Research Group/EPRG
The Electronic Publishing Research Group conducts advanced research in electronic publishing. Our particular focus is understanding digital documents as knowledge representation systems. This involves developing formal models of how documents organize and structure knowledge and then exploring how these models can be used to improve the performance and functionality of digital library technologies, collaboration systems, publishing systems, textbase practice, and educational technology.
Basically, if you enjoyed a class with Allen Renear or Dave Dubin, then you might want to joing EPRG.
Conferences that strike this groups' fancy include:
- Extreme Markup Languages
- Classification Society
- NSF / NSDL Workshop
- Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC / ACH)
- Dublin Core Conference
- ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
- ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
Our webpage is here: http://eprg.isrl.uiuc.edu/
You can join our listserv here: https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/eprg_general
[edit] Inquiry Research Group
I would recommend Inquiry Research Group led by Chip Bruce. See a brief description below and you can visit Inquiry Reserach Group iLab at
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/inquiry/
for additional info:
This is a discussion group sponsored by the Community Informatics Initiative.
We focus on research, especially around learning (in schools, libraries, museums, community centers, and other settings). We will consider issues of problem formulation, theory, methodology, analysis, interpretation, writing, and application. The group provides opportunities to share and critique work in progress, discuss research methods or new ideas, or to talk about any sorts of issues related to completing a PhD.
Typically, each meeting starts with a brief presentation of someone's research project, followed by open discussion both to further that project and to draw implicatons for others.
You may subscribe to the Inquiry mailing list via the Web at
https://mail.prairienet.org/mailman/listinfo/inquiry
or via an email message to inquiry-join@mail.prairienet.org. If you like to send an announcement to all group members, write to inquiry@lists.prairienet.org.
MN.
[edit] YA Book Club
It is time to start the Young Adult Book Club for Fall 2006.
- Who
- Anyone interested in YA Books
- What
- We will be discussing the book Looking for Alaska by John Green (2006 Printz Award Winner)
- When
- Tuesday, September 5th @ 5:15 P.M.
- Where
- The CCB/ Rm 24 in the GSLIS Building
We will also be discussing future books/genres and meeting dates/times for the rest of the semester.
See You There!
