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March 23, 2007

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference

I attended the first conference of the Association for Mormon Scholars in the Humanities  (program). I found this very stimulating and well worth supporting and repeating in the future. My responses follow below:

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Scholarship 2.0 Presentation

Scholarship202 At the monthly meeting of the Harold B. Lee Library's faculty council I gave a presentation, "Scholarship 2.0" (download PowerPoint). This includes much of my Web 2.0 presentation from the library's town meeting, but focuses more on how scholarship is evolving from "Scholarship 1.0" to "Scholarship 2.0". As with the other presentation, I also showed Dr. Michael Wesch's impressive video about Web 2.0 (See my earlier post for links to that video).

March 20, 2007

On Mormon documentary film

Alyssarock Alyssa Rock has authored a very interesting series of posts about Mormons and film and the subject of documentary film in particular.

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March 13, 2007

Web 2.0 Presentation to BYU Library

Incunabular2 Today I gave a presentation to the assembled library staff of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University at their monthly "Town Meeting." Randy Olson (head librarian) invited me to present something on trends in Scholarly Communication along with some others. The result was this PowerPoint presentation, "Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web 2.0." If you're interested,

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