Microlearning Program Calendar
Manisha Khetarpal
I bring Subject Matter Experts together by building Community Learning Circles. We develop microlearning opportunities where learners can learn knowledge & skills which can be applied across a variety of settings.
Maskwacis Cultural College, October 2020, Free microlearning
“Everything’s in 300”: Moving from Dewey Decimal to BDC at the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council 4
Building a Discourse of Reciprocity in Archival Science. 5
Virtually Sharing: Creating Exhibitions and Tours Online. 6
Facing our Problems: Sensitive Content in Collections 7
Emergency preparedness and recovery programs. 8
Grant Writing for Community Archives. 8
ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING.. 9
How to Design Learning Games Using Online Platforms Such as Zoom, WordPress or an LMS-Part 5. 10
"Building Community Online: resources and hands-on practice". 11
"Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online": Part 4. 12
Digital Critical Literacy and the Phishing Game. 13
Mapping and Visualizing Data 101. 14
#CiteNLM: Improving Wikipedia’s Health Information Through Crowdsourcing & Collaboration. 15
Ethics and Lived Experience Research. 16
Digital Preservation – Virtual Workshop. 16
Put It Online! Opportunities for Small BC Cultural Organisations . 18
Aerial and Fire Insurance Plan Digitization at the City of Edmonton Archives. 19
Poverty Reduction Initiative. 20
INDIGENOUS
October 8, 12-1 pm MT Edmonton
Indigenous Womxn Write: Word Therapy & Strength-Based Stories
Description
Our workshop will be from the perspectives of Métis and Inuit Northern (Northwest Territories) writers. We will share our writing experiences through the Visiting Way Methodology – an Indigenous methodology that centers on relating to one another in a non-restrictive, unscripted and responsive way.
Presentation topics will include:
· Word therapy.
· Our writing routines.
· Strength-based stories.
· Trauma porn.
· Cultural appropriation.
· Imposter syndrome.
· Favorite writing resources
Tanya Roach
Tanya Roach is an Inuk writer and throat singer living in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Her family roots are from the Kivalliq region of Nunavut; an area on the northwest coast of the Hudson’s bay. She has been writing for 10 years about life as an urban Inuk and as an Indigenous child in the NWT foster care system. Her writing can be found in UpHere magazine, Edge Yk, the Writers Union of Canada and the Literary Review of Canada. She loves books and is a full-time employee at the Yellowknife library.
Published article: A Fierce Love (2019). The Edge. https://edgenorth.ca/article/a-fierce-love.
Shelley Wiart
Shelley Wiart is a member of the North Slave Métis Alliance, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Shelley is currently finishing her fourth year of a Bachelor of Arts program in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University. She is the founder of an Indigenous focused holistic health program, Women Warriors (www.womenwarriors.club). Last summer she was the recipient of the Hot?ì ts'eeda (NWT SPOR Support Unit) Research Capacity Development Program and for two consecutive years she was awarded the Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI) Undergrad Summer Student Stipend for her Indigenous women’s health research project, Digital Storytelling as an Indigenous Women’s Health Advocacy Tool: Empowering Indigenous Women to Frame Their Health Stories. She published an academic article from this research, Decolonizing Health Care: Indigenous Digital Storytelling as Pedagogical Tool for Cultural Safety in Health Care Settings in Northern Public Affairs Magazine (2020). Shelley is an avid writer and was awarded first runner-up for the Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction (2020) in UpHere magazine. She has also earned a spot as part of Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference.
Published article: My Northern Healing (2020). UpHere Magazine. https://uphere.ca/articles/my-northern-healing.
Decolonizing Health Care: Indigenous Digital Storytelling as Pedagogical Tool for Cultural Safety in Health Care Settings (2020)
Registration link: https://forms.gle/En5nH43hvJRfKAmf7
https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/2020/09/indigenous-womxn-write-word-therapy.html
“Everything’s in 300”: Moving from Dewey Decimal to BDC at the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council
October 22, 11 am-12 noon MDT/10-11 am PST
The session will explore the development of a small Indigenous library through an examination of “lessons learned” during the implementation of the Brian Deer Classification System (BDC) at the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. The session will include project planning and scoping, appraising the collection, classification development, tools and resources, and developing manuals and teaching guides for cataloguing work.
Presenters:
Kat Louro is currently the archivist and librarian at the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council located on the unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, where she is building a resource centre to meet the needs of the organization and the seven member communities it serves. She graduated with an M.A.S. in 2018 from the UBC iSchool, and a joint degree in History and English from UNBC in 2014. She is passionate about rural and Northern outreach, community led initiatives, and intersections between GLAM organizations. She is of settler heritage, and calls Northern BC home.
Alexandra Alisauskas is an MAS/MLIS candidate at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, pursuing the First Nations Curriculum Concentration. Alexandra was previously an arts writer, researcher, and educator. She lives as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the xwm?θkw?y??m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and S?líl lw?ta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Cost: Free. Registration link: https://forms.gle/7N7UmQV92WouUiQh9
October 6, 9-10 am MT Edmonton
Building a Discourse of Reciprocity in Archival Science
Description:
Increasing interest in decolonization, Indigenization, community archives, and the recent adoption of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials by the Society of American Archivists, and by other professional bodies, offer a crucial opportunity for archivists to examine “reciprocity” as an archival concept. In this presentation we provide a characterization of reciprocity in archival science, and show how current reciprocal practices in archives with Indigenous holdings can inform the wider field and its purpose. Building on our previous research in Native American and Indigenous collections, we posit a continuum of institutional reciprocity, as well as how reciprocity might be seeded into the core functions of archives.
Instructors:
Ricky Punzalan is an associate professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, where he teaches in the area of archives and digital curation. His research examines Indigenous communities’ access to their digitized and archived heritage through virtual reunification, improving archival practices, conducting community-based research, and re-establishing more ethical relationships between Indigenous peoples and heritage institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Information as well as graduate certificates in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Ricky is currently a Council member of the Society of American Archivists
Diana E. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool). Her current work focuses on discovery, use, and access in ethnographic collections, especially for Native American and Indigenous communities. She completed her PhD in Anthropology (Museum Anthropology) at the University of British Columbia. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Native American Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/WQ5XjwNeCozbjv3o6
Blog page: https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/2020/09/building-discourse-of-reciprocity-in.html
October 7, 12- 1 pm
Virtually Sharing: Creating Exhibitions and Tours Online
Description: This session will look at the work of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre to create virtual exhibitions and virtual tours. The presenters will focus on examples of using Tumblr, Omeka, and a custom-made platform to create virtual exhibitions and share archival materials online.
Presenters:
Krista McCracken is a settler public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre. Krista’s work focuses on community archives, Residential Schools, access, and outreach.
Jenna Lemay is the Digital Archives Technician at the SRSC, as well as the Librarian at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig and a Digital Preservation Assistant with Scholars Portal. She has a background in archaeology, genealogy, archives, and records management. Jenna’s work focuses on digitization, preservation, and access.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/1bFA1xypcMB4gRA9A
October 16, 12- 1 pm MDT
Facing our Problems: Sensitive Content in Collections
Description: Many of you have experienced the discomfort with collection management decisions when dealing with dated, inaccurate, or otherwise problematic material that still holds some value. What do we do with this material? How do we, as information gatekeepers, present this material?
In this presentation we will be Facing Our Problems: Sensitive Content in Collections! We will share tools to address problematic content. We will focus on Indigenous content, but these same principles can be applied to other problematic collection items. The goal is to be able to use and share these resources in a responsible, respectful way.
First, we will discuss preliminary research on various notes that can be added to the collection to help enhance teachable moments when readers engage with content. We will then follow up with more comprehensive collection enhancements, such as Critical Literacy Kits, to help support critical thinking when engaging with content.
(20 – 30 minutes presentation, 30 minutes question/discussion)
Ashley Edwards
Ashley Edwards has been with SFU Library since January 2013, and is the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre Librarian. As someone with Metis-settler heritage, she has both a personal and professional interest in Indigenizing and Decolonizing work. Growing up outside of community, and not having many opportunities to explore Indigenous history or culture has resulted in a journey of unlearning or relearning both her identity, and understanding of the world.
Rachel Chong:
Rachel Chong is a Metis-settler Indigenous Librarian currently working at Kwantlen Polytechnic University which resides on the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem Peoples. Her work interests include Indigenizing academic library practice and fostering critical Indigenous Information Literacy competency. She graduated from the University of British Columbia's Master's of Library and Information Studies and completed the First Nations Curriculum Concentration in 2013 as part of this program.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/ZeoWqniFVMCX1m976
October 8, 11 am-12 pm MT Edmonton
Emergency preparedness and recovery programs
Description: This presentation uses a case study from central Manitoba to explore Save the Children's emergency preparedness and recovery programs in response to wildfires and social stressors in St. Theresa Point First Nation, Island Lake, MB.
Presenters:
Carmen Barrientos-A Salvadoran/Canadian, who currently works in Toronto with the National Reconciliation Program at Save the Children Canada. Her role is focused on supporting Indigenous partners and/or communities across Canada, in the resourcing, development, and/or implementation of programming, in the areas of Health, Education, Climate Change and/or any other programming in relation to Indigenous rights. Carmen has over 15 years working in the public health area, including social determinants of health and health education.
Lewis Archer works with Save the Children's National Reconciliation Program, working with First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities across the country on climate change, emergency and now COVID-19 programs. He brings 10 years of experience in developing and delivering child-centred programs, both in Canada and abroad. Lewis currently resides in Toronto, the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/3tukT1znBi5A28HK6
October 27, 12-1 pm MT Edmonton
Grant Writing for Community Archives
Description: This session will cover the basics of grant writing for community archives and include practical tips for those looking to prepare archives focused grants. The presenter will draw on their experience successfully applying to a range of funding programs including the Museum Assistance Program, Digitizing Canadian Collections, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and others.
Presenters:
Krista McCracken is a settler public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre. Krista’s work focuses on community archives, Residential Schools, access, and outreach.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/1dhHBnNMB9uqWHoJ8
ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING
The importance of online facilitation - Active listening in asynchronous environments and peer to peer/student to student support services.
Part 7: October 15, 8-9 am MDT Edmonton/16:00 – 17:00 Central European Time – Brussels
Part 6: October 1, 8-9 am MDT Edmonton/16:00 – 17:00 Central European Time – Brussels
Description: In the session, we will look at the importance of online facilitation. What does it entail? How is it different from online teaching? What skills are need to be an effective online facilitator? How should we facilitate online discussion forums (whether synchronous or asynchronous)
Instructor: Associate Professor Karen Ferreira-Meyers has vast experience in the teaching and learning of languages. Since 2010, she is the Coordinator Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Institute of Distance Education (University of Eswatini). Her research interests include distance and e-learning, the teaching and learning of languages, translation, interpreting, autofiction and autobiography, crime and detective fiction. She has published widely and participates on a regular basis in international conferences.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/4DhZmHPR4T8wSkmY8
October 7, 8:30-10 am MT
How to Design Learning Games Using Online Platforms Such as Zoom, WordPress or an LMS-Part 5
Description: Serious games are an effective online teaching tool to increase student motivation and improve skills acquisition.
This webinar explores:
? How to design learning games for online courses and on a budget.
? How to use your learning management system (LMS) to deliver game-based learning for college and university courses.
? How to develop highly rewarding and innovative games to engage learners.
? How to use digital media platforms to create imaginative, compelling and, exciting game experiences.
Join Dr. David Chandross, gamification and mixed reality expert at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada for an interactive one and half-hour microlearning session to assist instructors to design serious games for their online courses using common, simple digital platforms.
Cost: Free. Registration link: https://forms.gle/GyL9vS6rWFKnyRVM6
October 6, 2020; 10-11 am MDT
A Conversation about Teaching and Learning in Colleges and Universities: The Growing Role of Transformational, Global, and Indigenous Perspectives.
The representation of the participants in the session I recently attended--Supporting Indigenous Students as Researchers and Writers--suggests that educators and research support professionals, including librarians and knowledge keepers, are interested in how Indigenous research methodologies, learning styles, and writing styles are finding a place in the consciousness of educators today.
In this presentation I would like to briefly introduce some well known directions in higher education learning and curriculum, including Indigenization, as a way to begin a conversation around some interesting questions.
Those questions might include the following:
· How is the learning experience in higher education changing as policies and pedagogies become more culturally and socially relevant?
· What obstacles do participants see in universities moving toward models of learning based on experience, heritages, community engagement, and service?
· What strategies do participants think might be useful when bringing up and engaging in conversations about OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access, and Protection), access to university learning, knowledge transfer and mobilization, evaluation methods for students and faculty, student recruitment to meet EDI requirements, and student and faculty recruitment?
Instructor: Thomas Barker is Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication and Technology in the Faculty of Arts, Digital and Media Studies Unit at the University of Alberta. He is Project Lead for the Healthy Workplaces for Helping Professions project, originally funded by the OHS Futures Program of the Alberta Ministry of Labour. He has been engaged with the Alberta non-profit, human-services sector since 2011. His research work focuses on communication issues in higher education, public health, risk communication, and community engagement. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Alberta in 2007-2008 studying models of community engagement for risk communication for pandemics.
Thomas Barker, Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/barker/Principal Investigator, Healthy Workplaces for Helping Professions Project
Registration link: https://forms.gle/sRjhChNJaxCGeUEV9
Blog page: https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-conversation-about-teaching-and.html
October 6, 1-2 pm, MDT
"Building Community Online: resources and hands-on practice".
In this 60 minute workshop, participants will experience multiple community-building activities synchronously, and learn about others they can do asynchronously, as well as learn about a free online resource which holds a collection of community building activities for online learning. All community building activities used during the workshop are ones that promote equity in online learning spaces, and many are based on techniques called Liberating Structures which are easy to adapt online.
Instructor: Maha Bali, PhD, Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo
Registration link: https://forms.gle/eopJTNqtbFrf14a5A
https://blog.mahabali.me
** Have you seen these community building resources we have been curating? https://oneheglobal.org/equity-unbound **
Recently published:
Bali, M. et al (2020). Community Building online activities [open resource for teaching]. https://oneheglobal.org/equity-unbound/
Bali, M., Cronin, C., Czerniewicz, L., DeRosa, R., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). [Eds]. Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education. Pressbooks/Rebus Community
Bali, M. (2020). Doing autoethnography on the internet. In A. Herrmann (ed). The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography. Routledge.
Bozkurt, A., et al. (2020). A Global Outlook to the Interruption of Education due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating in a Time of Uncertainty and Crisis. Asian Journal of Distance Education.
Bali, M., Cronin, C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing Open Educational Practices from a Social Justice Perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. 2020 (1), p. 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.565
Monday, October 19, 9-11 am MDT Edmonton
"Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online": Part 4
Description: The terms “personalized learning” and “personal learning” are frequently used in online learning but are very different concepts.
Join Stephen Downes, a specialist in online learning technology and new media, for an interactive session to assist faculty and instructors on how to help students succeed by taking ownership of their learning online utilizing the concept of personal learning.
In this microlearning, you learn:
? The difference between ‘personalized learning’ and ‘personal learning’.
? Why personal learning is the preferred concept for student success.
? Key starting points for personal learning, objectives, learning processes and forms of evaluation that best suit personal learning.
? Strategies to implement personal learning in the form of support for remote teaching, online learning, and lifelong learning.
? Suggested tools and technologies.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/jc7Z5cqdAr35v4Aa8 (Please share this form)
Stephen Downes https://www.downes.ca/
Researcher, National Research Council Canada
Research Associate @Contact North I Contact Nord
Stephen Downes is a specialist in online learning technology and new media, one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a thirty-year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of online learning games, learning objects and metadata, podcasting, open educational resources. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.
TECHNOLOGY
October 5, 9:30-10:30 am MT Edmonton
Digital Critical Literacy and the Phishing Game
Join Mary McDonald, Program Delivery Lead for Pinnguaq, to explore best practices for digital critical literacy, phishing and online safety. Learn about the online safety training phishing game developed by Pinnguaq and see how you score.
Instructor: Mary is an educator, writer and media artist who is passionate about participatory digital arts projects and creative technologies that inspire individuals and connect communities. Mary is an Ontario Certified Teacher and has a B.Ed. specializing in Language Literacy and Special Education, and has just completed the Master of Educational Technology degree through UBC. She has taught in Canada and at international schools in Asia and in Africa. Mary loves traveling to meet new people, learn about different ways of being and experience new landscapes.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/nBrP5LxBE2uTtyYW8
Mapping and Visualizing Data 101
Friday, Aug 7, 10-11 am MDT
Join Mary McDonald, Program Delivery Lead for Pinnguaq, for this introductory hands-on session to mapping and visualizing data. Learn how to use free programs for building, visualizing and sharing data. Airtables is a program that allows you to build, cross-reference and share data. Palladio provides many different ways to visualize your data. Import data tables and map and share your data using Google My Maps and Google Earth tour.
Links to programs:
Airtable: airtable.com
Palladio: https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/
Google My Maps: https://www.google.com/mymaps
Google Earth Tour: https://www.google.com/earth/
Cost: Free. Registration link: https://forms.gle/oysxvoKPVnNk7Dpt9
November 4, 1-2 pm MT.
#CiteNLM: Improving Wikipedia’s Health Information Through Crowdsourcing & Collaboration
Description: Despite common admonitions to avoid Wikipedia, the collaboratively created online encyclopedia is in fact one of the most frequently used information resources in the world, including among students and professionals. For example, 94% of medical students and 50-70% of physicians use Wikipedia to find health information. In recognition of the importance and ubiquity of Wikipedia as an information resource, academics and information professionals have increasingly made efforts to innovatively re-integrate the resource into the academic sphere in both the classroom and the library. Building on this work, the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) has organized a series of Wikipedia editing campaigns. These campaigns have incorporated in-person edit-a-thons as well as virtual events, and have engaged hundreds of students, faculty, and library staff across the country in collaborative efforts to ensure universal access to high-quality health information.
Presenters:
Kelsey Cowles, MLIS is the Academic Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Region of the Network of the National Library of Medicine, based at the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System. Kelsey works with academic institutions ranging from community colleges and professional schools to large medical schools to help them support health sciences students and faculty members and is involved in several NNLM & NLM initiatives relating to citizen science and crowdsourcing.
Liz Waltman, MLIS is the Outreach, Education, and Communications Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region. In this role, she is responsible for the development of training opportunities and outreach initiatives for librarians and health professionals and the coordination of all communications for the regional medical library.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/jRdfmawxNidFusqK9
COMMUNICATION
October 7, 1-1:45 pm MT Edmonton
Personal Journalism 101
Oct. 7 for Personal Journalism 101 - it will cover the difference between objective and impartial coverage, where journalism seems to be going (where it's been), and how one can report on their own life.
Joseph R. Mathieu | jrmwords.ca | 613-614-6284
Registration link: https://forms.gle/ovFmjAQECEjQQiwr6
October 6, 11 am-1 pm MT Edmonton
Ethics and Lived Experience Research
Description: Phenomenology is a human science research methodology oriented towards lived experience. The aim is to explore, describe, and interpret the lived world as experienced in everyday situations and relations. It is a textual form of inquiry, investigating and expressing in rigorous and rich language phenomena and events, as they give themselves in lived experience. This session will focus on the intersection of ethics and phenomenology introducing empirical methods to gather examples of lived experience descriptions, as well as reflective methods that may help the researcher explore thoughtfully the lived meanings of this descriptive material.
Presenter: Michael van Manen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and Endowed Chair of Health Ethics and Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/h4vvTgpwUUtJ1BX69
https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/2020/09/ethics-and-lived-experience-research.html
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Digital Preservation – Virtual Workshop
September 29-Oct 1, 11am-1pm MDT Edmonton Three sessions (2 hours each) over three days. Intersession activities of up to one hour will be given prior to all sessions.
This workshop is brought to you in partnership with Canadian Conservation Institute
This workshop outlines best practices for preserving digital information. Topics covered include appropriate selection criteria for physical carriers as well as tools for taking stock of existing digital assets and for developing digital preservation policies, plans and procedures. Software and hardware solutions for digital preservation in small to medium-sized heritage institutions are also recommended.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
● identify digital assets in their institution and assess the risk and impacts of losing access to these assets;
● develop a digital preservation policy, plan and procedures;
● understand the factors relevant to the choice of physical carriers; and
● install and use hardware and software for the purpose of preserving digital assets in smaller heritage institutions.
Units
Taking stock of existing digital resources
The use of an inventory template to identify digital assets in an institution and to assess the risk and potential impacts of losing access to these assets. Identification of various physical carriers. Predicted lifespan of optical discs, magnetic tapes and magnetic disks. Recommendations for management and future selection of physical carriers.
Digital preservation policy development
Discussion of how to use a template to produce a concise and meaningful digital preservation policy. The importance of policy will also be discussed, including using its development as a means of obtaining buy-in from the institution’s management and using the resulting document as a guide to produce a digital preservation plan.
Digital preservation plan development
Using a template to ensure all facets of plan development are taken into account. Learning how to identify constraints, and using these constraints to produce and compare various digital preservation solutions. Selecting and justifying the selection of a digital preservation action plan.
Examples of digital preservation hardware and software for small heritage institutions
Testing of back-up and checksum software. Discussion of disk pooling as an affordable alternative to linear tape or traditional (RAID) disk arrays. Example procedures will be covered to produce weekly and monthly back-ups, as well as long-term preservation copies of digital assets.
Target audience
Curators, collections managers, conservators, archivists and other personnel responsible for the preservation of digital assets, particularly in smaller institutions.
Language(s)
English
Enrollment limits
Minimum 10, maximum 20
Duration
Three sessions (2 hours each) over three days. Intersession activities of up to one hour will be given prior to all sessions.
Instructor: Ern Bieman has served as a Heritage Information Analyst for the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) since 2007. He has published multiple documents related to information technology in museum environments, and is currently responsible for all matters at CHIN related to digitization and digital preservation. Prior to this, Mr. Bieman has worked in the private and education sectors as a Systems Engineer and Technical Specialist, and has worked in the not-for-profit and government sectors managing funding programs for IT-based R&D projects. Mr. Bieman holds a BSc in computer science, and master’s degrees in business and philosophy.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/yrVuDvE6iL5TiW7u8
October 7, 11-11:45 AM MDT
Put It Online! Opportunities for Small BC Cultural Organisations
20 minute session with Q&A.
For small BC galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) and Indigenous communities, making cultural collections accessible online is an urgent but complex and resource intensive process many do not have capacity for. In this 20-minute session you’ll learn about the opportunities for small BC cultural organisations to host their materials in Arca, BC’s collaborative digital repository, including support for ingest, access control, use of Traditional Knowledge labels and metadata wrangling. This includes a no-cost option for past, present and future recipients of BC History Digitization Program grants, offered through a partnership between the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) at the University of British Columbia Library.
Sunni Nishimura (she/her) is a settler privileged to work and live on the unceded territories of the x?m?θkw?y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh úxwumixw (Squamish), S?l?ílw?ta? (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. She is Partnerships Coordinator for Arca, British Columbia's collaborative digital repository, and Manager at the BC Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary libraries.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/wn3AGPZZxy9h7mdt9
October 6, 3-3:30 pm MT Edmonton
Aerial and Fire Insurance Plan Digitization at the City of Edmonton Archives
Description: Digitization for access can sometimes seem like an overwhelming task. In this microlearning, you will learn the process through which archivists at the City of Edmonton Archives broke down the scanning projects into manageable modules, the programs and hardware that were used, and the processes that were automated to facilitate the generation of metadata and access copies.
Rather than focusing on the theory behind digitization, the objective of this microlearning is to show a definitive workflow that could be split between team members, or accomplished on one's own thereby allowing any project to be scaled to the material.
Presenter Profile:
Dylan Bremner is the Digital Archivist at the City of Edmonton Archives. He received a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia in 2019.
Cost: Free. Registration link: https://forms.gle/oJEqFeuWcVozMQfNA
SOCIAL TRENDS
October 2, 10-11 am MT Edmonton
Poverty Reduction Initiative
Derek Cook serves as the Director of the Canadian Poverty Institute at Ambrose University in Calgary, and recently served on the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty, advising the federal government on the development of the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy. Derek also serves on the Commission on Justice and Peace of the Canadian Council of Churches, as well as on the boards of Canada Without Poverty and Mennonite Central Committee Alberta. Prior to assuming leadership of the Canadian Poverty Institute, Derek served as the Executive Director of the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative, leading the Mayor’s task force on poverty. Derek has also worked as a community development worker with various organizations across Canada in the fields of adult literacy, immigrant settlement and employment development. He holds a B.A. in Political Studies from McGill University, an M.Sc. in Rural Planning and Development from the University of Guelph, and is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) in the Province of Alberta.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/wSfeeSPPf4s4YaN88
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
October 14, 11-11:55 am MDT
“Go throw it in the river”: Productive Confusions of Collaboration with communities in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea
In this seminar I will discuss aspects of my 20 years of work with communities in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea with a specific focus on the work I have done with and around cultural heritage collections in museums. I will discuss methods (photographic elicitation and return, participatory mapping, making of posters and museum visits), aims (to help inform communities of their dispersed heritage and communities document present-day knowledge) and the realities of this work which is productively messy and complicated.
Joshua Bell (D.Phil 2006) is cultural anthropologist and the Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons, artefacts and the environment. He is currently the Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives, and curates the 8 million feet of film that compose the Human Studies Film Archives. In addition to being the Director of the Recovering Voices program, which connects communities to Smithsonian collections in the effort to support language and knowledge revitalization, he is the founder and co-director of the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian. Currently Bell is curating the show Cellphone: Unseen Connections (opening at NMNH in spring 2022) which explores the cultural, ecological and natural history stories bound up in our mobile devices. Bell has edited several books and written articles on materiality, expeditions, the politics of heritage and history, visual return, history of collecting, media and cell phone repair.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/MUzSX9hb3E8dfrS28
Joshua A. Bell, D.Phil
Curator of Globalization
Director of Recovering Voices
Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives
Anthropology Department (MRC 112)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution10th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560
Tel. 202.633.1935
Recovering Voices
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/recovering-voices
National Anthropological Archives
Mother Tongue Film Festival (Feb 20-23, 2020) 5th Annual
SIMA 2021
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/summer-institute-museum-anthropology
November 18, 11-11:55 am MDT
“Canoes bring people together”: A tale of two Oceanic canoes at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
In this seminar I will discuss an ongoing collaboration that emerged in 2017 around two canoes (wa’a in Hawaiian and waka in Māori) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The first canoe – Tuia Te Here Tangata – was finished at NMNH and gifted to the museum as part of the international traveling exhibit Tuku Iho that featured Māori. This canoe led to another canoe, which was gifted to the Smithsonian in 1887 by the Hawaiian Queen Kapi’olani (reputedly the oldest Hawaiian canoe in a museum, c. 233 years old). Through these two canoes a collaboration between Māori and Hawaiian canoe builders and Smithsonian staff has emerged which has moved between Washington, DC., Hawai’i and Aotearoa New Zealand to help document Oceanic canoe making and foster the next generation of builders.
Instructor
Joshua Bell (D.Phil 2006) is cultural anthropologist and the Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons, artefacts and the environment. He is currently the Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives, and curates the 8 million feet of film that compose the Human Studies Film Archives. In addition to being the Director of the Recovering Voices program, which connects communities to Smithsonian collections in the effort to support language and knowledge revitalization, he is the founder and co-director of the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian. Currently Bell is curating the show Cellphone: Unseen Connections (opening at NMNH in spring 2022) which explores the cultural, ecological and natural history stories bound up in our mobile devices. Bell has edited several books and written articles on materiality, expeditions, the politics of heritage and history, visual return, history of collecting, media and cell phone repair.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/xdK4xBNnkPdnT52r5
Joshua A. Bell, D.Phil
Curator of Globalization
Director of Recovering Voices
Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives
Anthropology Department (MRC 112)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution10th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560
Tel. 202.633.1935
Recovering Voices
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/recovering-voices
National Anthropological Archives
Mother Tongue Film Festival (Feb 20-23, 2020) 5th Annual
SIMA 2021
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/summer-institute-museum-anthropology
December 16, 11-11:55 am MDT
Cellphone: Unseen Connections – Making an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
In this seminar I will discuss an exhibit, and the research that informs it, that I curating at the National Museum of Natural History which explores the ecological, economic cultural and social implications of the cell phone globally. This shows explores the personal, ecological and a natural history stories of our devices, and in doing so tells the story of humanities changing relationship to our environment in the 21st century.
Instructor
Joshua Bell (D.Phil 2006) is cultural anthropologist and the Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Combining ethnographic fieldwork with research in museums and archives, Bell examines the shifting local and global network of relationships between persons, artefacts and the environment. He is currently the Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives, and curates the 8 million feet of film that compose the Human Studies Film Archives. In addition to being the Director of the Recovering Voices program, which connects communities to Smithsonian collections in the effort to support language and knowledge revitalization, he is the founder and co-director of the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian. Currently Bell is curating the show Cellphone: Unseen Connections (opening at NMNH in spring 2022) which explores the cultural, ecological and natural history stories bound up in our mobile devices. Bell has edited several books and written articles on materiality, expeditions, the politics of heritage and history, visual return, history of collecting, media and cell phone repair.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/zwoaQmZm3xWhyNmH6
Joshua A. Bell, D.Phil
Curator of Globalization
Director of Recovering Voices
Acting Director of the National Anthropological Archives
Anthropology Department (MRC 112)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution10th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560
Tel. 202.633.1935
Recovering Voices
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/recovering-voices
National Anthropological Archives
Mother Tongue Film Festival (Feb 20-23, 2020) 5th Annual
SIMA 2021
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/programs/summer-institute-museum-anthropology
MENTAL HEALTH
Monday, October 19, 11 am-noon.
COVID-19 COPING Mindset: How to Monitor and Boost Resilient Self-Talk
with Patricia Morgan, MA CCC
“Words matter. And the words that matter most are the ones you say to yourself.”
David Taylor-Klaus, Mindset Mondays with DTK
Join us to explore and develop tools and resources to assist in adjusting and/or recovering to the changes and challenges of living with COVID-19. Be reminded of, or discover, how your mind-chatter may be adding to your stress during this unusual time.
You will:
1. Explore types of dysfunctional (stinking) thinking from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
2. Get clear about words that disempower or empower.
3. Meet your mind chatter parts of you that often create internal conflict and stress.
4. . . . and more
Patricia Morgan is often referred to as the Spunky Seniorpreneur. Her ability to provide bite-sized knowledge nuggets for resilience has helped many people emerge stronger after facing unthinkable challenge. She provides therapy for clients troubled by distress, relationship conflict, low self-esteem, and past childhood neglect and abuse. Her services are covered by SunLife Health Insurance.
With a MA in Clinical Psychology, she has authored several books on resilience and stress management. She is a recipient of Global TV’s Woman of Vision award and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers’ Spirit of CAPS award for her contribution to the Canadian speaking industry. Check her out and see her in action at www.SolutionsForResilience.com
Registration link: https://forms.gle/8JfQbrd8goHWik3L8