ONS talks at the British Library, ACRL and a Slideshare feature

Update: the Columbia panel on Open Science video is now available.

This past week I gave two talks and participated in one panel discussion - with no jetlag or airport burn-out. Gotta love technology for allowing for that to happen.

My first talk was on Feb 11, 2009 at a session on Digital Lives at the British Library. This was a hybrid conference with a presence in the physical world as well as Second Life. I could see and hear the speakers in London from within Second Life and I'm assuming they saw my presentation just as clearly. Joanna Scott from Nature coordinated the SL session.

I then participated in a panel in Second Life on "Stepping into Science" on Feb 13, 2009. There was as good discussion about using Second Life for educational applications. The other panelists included:

• - Troy McConaghy (Scientist and Educator who has been involved with Second Life for over three years)
• - Dr. George Djorgovski (Caltech and Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA))
• - Joanna Scott (Writer for Nature and manages Second Nature on Second Life)
• - Adrienne J. Gauthier, M.Ed. (Instructional Technology Specialist, Steward Observatory)
• - Tony Crider (Elon University)

Then on Feb 17, 2009 I presented for the Association of College and Research Libraries using Acrobat Connect Pro. Hope Kandel from LearningTimes did a great job in coordinating the technology and people several weeks before the event. The attendees used chat to ask questions during my talk then John Howard moderated by summarizing some of the questions verbally at the end. It went well I think.

And I just heard that my ACRL presentation on Open Notebook Science is currently showcased on Slideshare under the Education category.

Now I'm on my way to a physical conference at Columbia with Bora: Open Science: Good For Research, Good For Researchers?

Scholar2Scholar Webcast and Report

The webcast from the Scholar2Scholar conference on April 16, 2008 is now available here. The general introductions start at 15:30, my intro by Jane Bryan starts at 19:08, my talk on "Enhancing Scientific Communication through Open Notebook Science" at 23:28 and the panel at 51:40 (after several minutes of dead audio unfortunately).

The panel consisted of Jean-Claude Bradley, Andre Brown, Nicole Engard, James Mitchell, Banu Onaral, Beth Ritter-Guth, and Scott Warnock.

Small round-table discussions followed and were diligently documented by the library folks. Their notes will be posted here on the wiki.

Overall it was a very well organized and productive event. I was impressed by the level of engagement by the participants at my round table and I expect future projects to evolve from these discussions.

I especially thank Jay Bhatt and Anita Chiodo for setting the process in motion a few months ago!

Scholar2Scholar Tomorrow

The Scholar2Scholar conference is upon us. Jay Bhatt and Anita Chiodo did an amazing job with organizing this from the start. I'll be giving the introductory talk on "Enhancing Scientific Communication through Open Notebook Science". Here are the slides - I'm starting with an introduction to Web2.0 using FriendFeed as an example.

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date: April 16, 2008 8:30-1:30
location: Drexel University Bossone Lobby

Join us to discuss how Web2.0 is changing scholarship. Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley will give a presentation, followed by a panel discussion featuring: Andre Brown, Nicole Engard, James Mitchell, Banu Onaral, Beth Ritter-Guth, and Scott Warnock. Small round-table discussions will follow. An optional Dutch-treat lunch concludes the day.