2011 Schedule

i3 Scholars — Introductory Institute: June 5 - 30, 2011

Sunday
June 5

Monday
June 6

Tuesday
June 7

Wednesday
June 8

Thursday
June 9

Friday
June 10

Saturday
June 11

i3 Scholars Arrive at the University of Pittsburgh;

Check-in at Ruskin Hall

Breakfast;
Meet and Greet
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast with Master’s Students
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Orientation;
Tour of Campus
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
From Cave Paintings to Cloud Computing: 30,000 Years of Information Use
Dr. Kip Currier
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Books You can Play With and Games You Can Read
Dr. Leanne Bowler
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Pro. Dev. Seminar
What is an iSchool?
SWAG Giveaways from the iSchools
Mr. Michael Depew
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Copyright and Copy Rights in the Copy Age
Dr. Kip Currier
10:00AM – 12:00PM

 

Group Lunch;
Writing Exercise #1 Assigned
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Group Lunch;
Product-Use Imagination Exercise
12:00PM – 1:30pm

Group Lunch;
Solution Brainstorming Exercise
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Group Lunch;
Tour of Carnegie Mellon University;
Presentations from CMU Applied Research Labs
12:00PM – 3:00PM

Group Lunch;
Writing Exercise #2 Assigned
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Three Rivers Arts Festival
(optional)
12:00PM – 8:00PM

Workshop
What are the Information Sciences? What is Information?
Dr. Cory Knobel
1:30PM – 3:30PM

Workshop
A Tale of Two Mediums: Blogging and New Media
Dr. Lynette Kvasny
1:30PM – 3:30PM

Tour of Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh
1:30PM – 3:30PM

 

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Library 2.0: Learning to Use a Network of Free Resources
Ms. Danielle Colbert-Lewis
1:30PM – 2:30PM

Meet with Project Teams
3:30PM – 5:30PM

 

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Righting Your Writing
Dr. Beth Newborg
4:00PM – 5:00PM

Workshop
Digital Mosaic: Information Needs of Diverse Peoples in the Internet Age
Ms. Alexia Hudson
3:30PM – 5:30PM

Tour of Hillman Library and Library Services
3:30PM – 4:30PM

Individual Dinner
5:30PM – 7:30PM

Opening Ceremony
Keynote Address:
Ms. Farai Chideya
5:30PM – 8:30PM

Welcome Picnic
Office of Experiential Learning
5:30PM – 8:00PM

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

 

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Game
6:00PM – 10:30PM

Sunday
June 12

Monday
June 13

Tuesday
June 14

Wednesday
June 15

Thursday
June 16

Friday
June 17

Saturday
June 18

 

Breakfast;
Writing Ex. #1 Returned
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast;
Writing Exercise #3 Assigned
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

 

Workshop
Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation: How Wikipedia Changes Everything (Without Changing Anything)
Dr. Brian Butler
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Systems Trek: Exploring Strange New Systems and Boldly Going Where No Users Have Gone Before
Dr. Kip Currier
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Gaming
Dr. Joe Sanchez
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
How World of Warcraft Made Me a Leader
Dr. Joe Sanchez
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Are You Here?  How New Technologies Can Support Geographic Knowledge
Dr. Stephen Hirtle
10:00AM – 12:00PM

 

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:00PM

Formal Luncheon
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Paul Hawkins
12:00PM – 2:00PM

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:00PM

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Group Lunch;
Resume Review
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Individual Lunch
12:00PM – 1:00PM

Individual Lunch
12:00PM – 1:00PM

 

Pro. Dev. Seminar
From Archives to Avatars: An A-Z Alphabet of Job Opportunities in the Information Sciences
Mr. Wes Lipschultz
2:00PM – 3:30PM

Tour and Presentation at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
1:00PM – 3:00PM

Workshop
ATM: Art, Technology, and Media
Mr. Bob Perkoski
1:30PM – 3:30PM

Workshop
The Edge of Right and Wrong: Peer-2-Peer File Sharing, Mash-Ups, Users, and the Law
Dr. Kip Currier
1:30PM – 3:30PM

Pro. Dev. Seminars
Getting to Graduate School: Applications, GREs, and Recommendation Letters
Ms. Shabana Reza
1:00PM – 2:00PM

Geo-Caching
(GPS-Based Scavenger Hunts)
1:00PM – 3:00PM

CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF STUDENT INTEREST

Kayaking Trip at the North Shore
2:00PM – 5:00PM

Meet with Project Teams
4:00PM – 5:30PM

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Helping Hands: The Important Role of Mentors
Dr. Ixchel Faniel
3:30PM – 5:00PM

Meet with Project Teams
4:00PM – 5:30PM

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Sharpening Your Skill Sets for Graduate School and Beyond
Ms. Marisa Ramirez
(via Skype)
4:00PM – 5:30PM

Workshop
Computers and the Law
Dr. Joe Newcomer
2:30PM – 4:30PM

Meet with Project Teams
3:30PM – 5:00PM

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

Individual Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

Group Dinner;
iSchool Game Night
6:00PM – 8:00PM

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

Group Dinner;
iSchool Summer Cookout
5:00PM – 7:00PM

 

Sunday
June 19

Monday
June 20

Tuesday
June 21

Wednesday
June 22

Thursday
June 23

Friday
June 24

Saturday
June 25

 

Breakfast;
Writing Ex. #2 Returned
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Information Assurance
Mr. Amir Masoumzadeh
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
“Students Who Viewed this Lecture also Viewed…”: Recommender Systems and Web Personalization
Dr. Peter Brusilovsky
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Cryptography and Information Puzzles
Dr. Prashant Krishnamurthy
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Workshop
Robot Simulations: From Virtual to Reality
Mr. Steven Nunnally
10:00AM – 12:00PM

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Mock Interviews
Dr. Kip Currier
Dr. Barbara Zaborowski
Mr. Wes Lipschultz
Ms. Debbie Day
Mr. Robert Jordan
Mr. Jim McCarthy
Ms. Shabana Reza
10:00AM – 12:00PM

 

Kennywood Amusement Park
12:00PM – 9:00PM

Individual Lunch;
Break
12:00PM – 2:00PM

Group Lunch;
Self-Marketing Discussion
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:30PM

Group Lunch
12:00 – 1:00PM

Formal Luncheon
Guest Speaker:
Mr. Robert Jordan
12:00PM – 2:00PM

Lunch;
Visit to Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium
12:00PM – 6:00PM

CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF STUDENT INTEREST

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Finding the Right Program and Adviser for You: Rankings and Ratings of Grad Schools—Do They Matter?
Dr. Tywanna Whorley
2:00PM – 3:30PM

Workshop
Privacy in the Digital Age
Dr. Alessandro Acquisti
1:30PM – 3:30PM

Pro. Dev. Seminar
Money Matters: From FAFSA to Fellowships
Ms. Janet McLaughlin
2:00PM – 3:00PM

Workshop
Social Media: Changing Life From What We Eat to Who Rules the Country
Dr. Rosta Farzan
1:00PM – 3:00PM

Tour of Entertainment Technology Center
Dr. Drew Davidson
2:30PM – 4:00PM

 

Meet with Project Teams
3:30PM – 5:00PM

Workshop
Reading and Writing Revolution: How E-Books, Open Access, and Open Source are Redefining  Literacy, Scholarship, and Ownership
Dr. Bernadette Callery
3:00PM – 5:00PM

 

Guest Speaker
Mr. Larry Quinlan
Global CIO, Deloitte
4:00PM – 5:30PM

Workshop/Dinner
Research Rodeo: Scholarly Research, Panel Discussions, and a Night with Doctoral Students
Dr. Martin Weiss
Dr. Daqing He
Ms. Kelly Shaffer
5:00PM – 8:00PM

Visit to Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History
3:30PM – 7:00PM
(Optional to leave early)

 

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

 

Individual Dinner
6:00PM – 8:00PM

 

Sunday
June 26

Monday
June 27

Tuesday
June 28

Wednesday
June 29

Thursday
June 30

Friday
July 1

Saturday
July 2

 

Breakfast;
Writing Ex. #3 Returned
9:00AM – 10:00AM

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM

i3 Scholars Depart from the University of Pittsburgh;

Check-out from Ruskin Hall

 

 

Breakfast
10:30AM – 12:00PM

iSchool Presentations
Carnegie Mellon University
10:00AM – 11:00AM

iSchool Presentations
University of Michigan
10:00AM – 10:30AM
University of Maryland, Balt. Co.
10:45AM – 11:15AM

iSchool Presentations
University of North Texas
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Syracuse University
10:45AM – 11:15AM

 

 

Workshop
Information For All?  Access as a Civil Right, and Dangers of the Digital Divide
Ms. Marisa Ramirez
12:00PM – 2:00PM

iSchool Presentations
Florida State University
11:30AM – 12:00PM
University of British Columbia
12:15PM – 12:45PM

iSchool Presentations
University of Illinois
11:30AM – 12:00PM

Penn State University
12:15PM – 12:45PM

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:00PM

 

 

Meet with Project Teams
2:00PM – 3:30PM

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM

Team Presentations: Project Proposals
2 Teams
1:00PM – 2:00PM

 

 

 

iSchool Presentations
Drexel University
2:00PM – 2:30PM

iSchool Presentations
University of Kentucky
2:00PM – 2:30PM
University of Washington
2:45PM – 3:15PM

iSchool Presentations
University of California, Berkeley
2:00PM – 2:30PM
University of North Carolina
2:45PM – 3:15PM

 

 

 

Workshop
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda: Ethical Issues & Simulations
Dr. Ken Fleischmann
Dr. Russ Robbins
3:30PM – 5:30PM

Meet with Project Teams
3:30PM – 5:00PM

Team Presentations: Project Proposals
2 Teams
3:30PM – 4:30PM

 

 

 

Group Dinner
6:00PM – 7:30PM

Group Dinner
6:30PM – 8:00PM

Closing Ceremony
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Kathy Humphrey
6:00PM – 9:00PM