Putting the Learner at the Center
March 6 – 8, 2013
Baltimore, MD
(Last updated 2‐25‐13 @ 12:00 pm ET)
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Weather Update for 3/6/13: Conference will start on time
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
7:30 am – 9:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 4:00 pm Pre‐Conference Workshops
Pre‐conference workshop topics are based on suggestions and votes made through IdeaScale. Some sessions might have a longer duration than others, and some may be repeated. Workshop descriptions can be found as a link from the workshop title.
9:00 am – 10:25 am Workshops
- Multitouch Collaborative Computing & Other HCI Delights
Workshop Leader: Jim Spadaccini, Ideum - Beyond Likes and Hits: Guerrilla‐Style Evaluation and Digging Deeper Into Data (repeated at 10:45 am)
Workshop Leader: Kathleen Tinworth, Expose Your Museum LLC Creating Interfaces to Digital Collections: Visualizing Collection Data with Viewshare.org
Workshop Leaders: Trevor Owens, Library of Congress and Camille Salas, Library of Congress
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Workshop
- New Approaches to Engagement and Participation – Session 1: Maker Spaces in Museums and Libraries
Workshop Facilitator: Marsha Semmel, IMLS Workshop Leaders: Nini Beegan, Division of Library Development & Services, Maryland State Department of Education; Lisa Brahms, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh; David E. Kanter, New York Hall of Science; AnnMarie Thomas, Maker Education Initiative; Janella Watson, New York Hall of Science; David Wells, New York Hall of Science
10:40 am – 12:00 pm Workshops
- Picking a Platform
Workshop Leader: Tom Scheinfeldt, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, GMU - Juggling All the Pieces: Project Management for Beginners (repeated at 1:00 pm)
Workshop Leader: Sharon Leon, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, GMU - Digital Preservation (to be repeated at 2:40 pm)
Workshop Leader: Robert Horton, Institute of Museum and Library Services - Beyond Likes and Hits: Guerrilla‐Style Evaluation and Digging Deeper Into Data (repeat of 9:00 session)
Workshop Leader: Kathleen Tinworth, Expose Your Museum LLC
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Boxed Lunch (for pre‐conference participants only)
1:00 pm – 2:25 pm Workshop
- Juggling All the Pieces: Project Management for Beginners (repeat of morning session)
Workshop Leader: Sharon Leon, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, GMU
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Workshops
- New Approaches to Engagement and Participation – Session 2: STEM in Video Game Design
Workshop Leaders: Katya Hott, E‐Line Media; Jennifer Thompson, Brooklyn Public Library - Director’s Choice: Designing Prize Competitions
Workshop Leader: Jenn Gustetic, NASA, Office of the Chief Technologist - Engaging Visitors with Social Media
Workshop Leader: Dana Allen‐Greil, National Gallery of Art - Digital Public Library of America
Workshop Leaders: Emily Gore, Digital Public Library of America; Amy Rudersdorf, Digital Public Library of America
2:40 pm – 4:00 pm Workshop
- Digital Preservation (repeat of morning session)
Workshop Leader: Robert Horton, Institute of Museum and Library Services
4:00 pm Adjourn – participants on own
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
9:00 am – 9:30 am Welcome & Review of Conference Agenda by Bob Horton, Associate Deputy Director, IMLS
9:30 am Transition to Project Demonstrations
9:45 am – 11:45 am Project Demonstrations
Project demonstrators will focus on the progress of their project and lessons learned. Participants will be divided into three groups, and will be asked to rotate every 45 minutes to a different set of project demos. Confirmed project demonstrations include:
- Wikipedia and Libraries, What’s the Connection?
- StoryCorps @ your library
- The Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, Dumbarton Oaks
- Northern Lights: The Stories of Minnesota’s Past
- HiTech: The Road to A STEM Career
- 21-Tech
- Building Social Relationships and Bridging Social Capital: An Inclusive Approach to Immigrant Civic Engagement within Libraries Demonstration Project
- GIS for Public Gardens
- An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Plant Diversity to Climate Change
11:45 am – 12:00 pm Transition from project demos to Lunch/Lightning Talks
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Lightning Talks
Interested participants will take a boxed lunch and gather in the Maryland Ballroom to listen to very brief presentations. The session will feature up to 20 lightning talks, each three minutes in duration, with the option to include up to three slides. [Lightning talks are now filled.]
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm Transition to Project/Partnership Incubator Sessions
1:30 pm –5:30 pm Project/Partnership Incubator
The goal is to have 10 to 12 participants per group, which includes a pre‐selected facilitator. The purpose is to share new ideas and identify potential areas for collaboration. More information about incubator groups is available on the WebWise site. In particular, see the posts titled: “Hatch your project ideas at the Project/Partnership Incubator Session” and “Tell Us About Your Project Ideas!”
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Speed Consulting & Networking Session
This is an optional opportunity for participants to meet one‐on‐one with government project directors, program officers, and other federal experts who will address questions about their agency. Although this is designed to be an informal event, priority will be given to participants who sign up in advance. Conference attendees will be notified via email once on‐line requests for a speed consulting session are being accepted.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
7:30 am – 9:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:30 am Keynote Presentation (followed by Q&A)
- Speaker: Audrey Watters
- Talk Title: “Hack Education Whose Learning is it Anyway?”
- Talk Abstract: The last few years have seen an explosion in the number of technology tools available for teaching and learning ‐‐ new apps, new software, new websites, new hardware for creating and for consuming a wide variety of educational content and experiences. But how many of these put the wants and needs of learner at their core? Who controls the usage, the content, the data of these technologies? How can we build tools, programs, practices that make learners the subjects rather than the objects of ed‐tech? What features should we look for in technologies so we can help learners build a “domain of their own”?
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Sharing
Each group facilitator will have 4 minutes to recap their Project/Partnership Incubator discussion, which we hope will result in practical/realistic actions that a participant can take to make improvements within their home institution.
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Closing Remarks by Susan Hildreth, Director, IMLS