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Project Activity Log
Significant activities and events in the development
of the Transcriptions project
| April 2001 |
| 9 |
Transcriptions exhibits its projects
and descendent digital initiatives at the 10th
annual UCSB Instructional Media Day event. (See portal
page created for the exhibition.) |
| 6 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Michael
Heim, Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
CA, "The Classic Book and Avatar Chat: A Research Overview
with Hands-On Involvement."
In residence at UCSB during April as a visiting fellow of the
UC The Digital Cultures
Project, Michael Heim's interactive discussion comparing
books to avatar chat leads off a month of workshops and other
events related to virtual reality. (Full
schedule of April's events)
|
| 4 |
Meeting with Transcriptions research
assistants Jennifer Jones, Michael Perry, and Eric Weitzel to
plan Web-authoring workshops and technical support for spring
2001 courses. |
| March 2001 |
| 16 |
Alan Liu presents talk at Vanderbilt
Univ. that showcases Transcriptions and related digital projects
in the UCSB English dept. (see portal
page created for the talk). |
| 16 |
Alan Liu and William Warner attend
second meeting called by Mark Meadows of the UCSB Microcosms project
to prepare for a future UCSB consortium of humanities digital
initiatives. |
| 7 |
Meeting of Transcriptions team to focus
on the continuing work on the database design and frontend design
of the new Voice of the Shuttle, which will also serve up information
dynamically to future Transcriptions (and "Culture of Information")
pages. |
| 5 |
Alan Liu meets with Patrick Svensson,
director of the humanities Information Technology lab at Umea
University, Sweden. Svensson, who was on a tour of U.S. humanities
IT programs and facilities, had asked to be shown the Transcriptions
Project. |
| 2 |
Meeting of the Transcriptions team
for a project review of development work on the new "Culture
of Information" site that will be the successor to the Transcriptions
web site. (See early explanation of the
"Culture of Information" site.) |
| February 2001 |
| 28 |
Alan Liu and William Warner attend
meeting called by Mark Meadows of the UCSB Microcosms project
to begin laying the groundwork for a future UCSB consortium of
humanities digital initiatives that will cross between departments
and disciplines. |
| 23 |
Meeting of Transcriptions and VoS teams
for a project review of the development work on the new, database-driven
Voice of the Shuttle (which will feed into future Transcriptions
web pages). |
| 16 |
Transcriptions
faculty involved in the new Literature
and Culture of Information undergraduate specialization host
an information meeting for English majors interested in the specialization. |
| 9 |
Meeting of Transcriptions
team focused on web-site development for "Cultures of Information,"
which will be the successor to the Transcriptions web site. "Cultures
of Information" will have one interface directed to the public
interested in issues relating to information culture (early
conceptual mock-up) and a more specialized interface serving
students in the new UCSB undergraduate English specialization
in Literature
and the Culture of information (early
mock-up of course page). Research assistants concentrating
on the new Cultures of Information site include: Michael Perry,
Melissa Stevenson, Eric Weitzel. |
| 2 |
Alan Liu and research assistant Robert
Adlington attend the open house of the Panasonic
Speech Technology Laboratory in Santa Barbara. The visit was
intended not only to learn about speech-recognition and -generation
technology but to begin investigating leads for future field trips
and other extramural contacts for students in the Literature and
Culture of Information specialization (see future
plans of the specialization). Speech technology is especially
paradigmatic for humanities students because the field combines
the work of engineers and language specialists. |
| January 2001 |
| 31 |
Alan Liu meets with Chris Nelson to
finalize the budget for the Transcription project's proposal
for a UCSB Special Research and Curricular Initiatives grant. |
| 26 |
Meeting with research assistants working
on the database backend and redesigned frontend interface for
the new Voice of the Shuttle (Robert Adlington, Jeremy Douglass,
Diana Solomon, Laura Szanto). The new, database-driven VoS will
"power" portions of future Transcriptions Web pages. |
| 24 |
Meeting with research assistants Michael
Perry and Eric Weitzel to plan the winter quarter's work on the
Culture of Information site as well as technical workshops/drop-in
help hours for students in Transcriptions courses. |
| 24 |
Meeting of Transcriptions team to plan
tasks for the new Winter quarter. The meeting includes a review
of continuing tasks (database design, front-end design, Literature
and Culture of Information specialization) and a preview of upcoming
work and events (technical support for courses, synergy with the
in-residence fellowship of Michael Heim in April sponsored by
the UC Digital Cultures Project). |
| 10-31 |
The Transcriptions team prepares a
proposal for the UCSB Division of the Humanities Special Research
and Curricular Initiatives Funding competition. The proposal calls
for a grant to assist future development of the Transcription
project's new Literature
and the Culture of Information specialization for undergraduate
English majors. (See Future
Plans of the specialization.) |
| December 2000 |
| 13 |
Meeting with Transcriptions faculty
to continue planning and implementation of the new Literature
and Culture of Information specialization for undergraduate
English majors. |
| 8 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: "Metacollege.com
and the Digital Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion." Participants:
Stephen Erickson (Metacollege.com); Robert Hamm (Digital Cultures
Project Research Assistant); Alan Liu (Director, Transcriptions
Project); Chris Schedler (Metacollege.com) ; William Warner
(Director, The Digital Cultures Project).
This round-table discussion had a double focus: an overview
of the .com initiative Metacollege.com (founded by UCSB engineering
Professor Sanjoy Banerjee) as well as a more general discussion
of what the digital classroom is and should be.
|
| 4 |
Research assistants Robert Adlington
and Jeremy Douglass brief a meeting of the Transcriptions on their
continuing work on a database backend for Voice of the Shuttle,
Transcriptions, and other convergent English department digital
projects. |
| November 2000 |
| 30 |
Alan Liu meets with research assistant
Diana Solomon to discuss design work on the "magazine"-style
interface for a new Voice of the Shuttle. This project is related
to design work for a similar interface to the future Culture of
Information site. |
| 17 |
Alan Liu meets with Scott Rettberg,
Executive Directory of the Electronic Literature Organization
to discuss possible future scholarly collaborations between UCSB
and the ELO. |
| 13 |
Meeting with Transcriptions team to
focus on the SQL Server database being designed by research assistants
Robert Adlington and Jeremy Douglass. The database will serve
as the foundation of a redesigned, dynamically-generated Voice
of the Shuttle, which in turn will "power" or feed a
variety of digital projects in the English department, including
Transcriptions and its new Culture of Information site. |
| October 2000 |
| 30 |
Meeting with the Transcriptions team
to continue work on the "Culture of Information" site
and convergent projects (including a redesigned Voice of the Shuttle). |
| 23 |
Meeting with Transcriptions faculty
and research participants to discuss design of new "Culture
of Information" site and related projects now intended to
converge with Transcriptions (including a redesigned Voice of
the Shuttle). |
| 20 |
Alan Liu meets with Nicole Kern Klanfer
(UCSB Asst. Dean of Development), John McIntryre of the UCSB CEEM
project, and Tim Schwartz (UCSB Asst. Dean, Development &
External Affairs) to discuss fund-raising and future plans for
a student internship program. |
| 17 |
Introduction to the Transcriptions
studio for students in English
236, Hyperliterature. |
| 16 |
Meeting with Transcriptions research
assistants to continue planning for new "Culture of Information"
site. |
| 16 |
Alan Liu and William Warner meet with
Mark Meadow and Bruce Robertson of the Microcosms project to discuss
the new UC Humanities Commission and a possible new UC Humanities
Computing Initiative. |
| 11 |
Meeting with Transcriptions research
assistants to begin detailed planning for migration of Transcriptions
site to a permanent, database-driven "Culture of Information"
site. |
| September 2000 |
| 28 |
Beginning-of-year Transcriptions meeting:
introduction of new research assistants, planning for continuation
of ongoing tasks and for new task of migrating the Transcriptions
web site into a "Culture of Information" site that will
continue after the three-year life of Transcriptions. |
| 27 |
Update on the current state of Transcriptions
and the Digital Cultures project at English Dept. general meeting.
|
| 12 |
Orientation meeting for new graduate
students in the English Dept.: introduction to Transcriptions,
the Transcriptions studio, and the new Digital
Cultures project. |
| August 2000 |
| 18-19 |
Transcriptions Web site is revised
with more systematic use of "Alt" tags to accommodate
users with visual disabilities. |
| 16 |
Meeting with Transcriptions summer
research assistants to consult on progress of the Hypertext
Literature Resources page, research on the feasibility of
serving streaming video, and editing graphics on course pages. |
| 12-14 |
Transcriptions orders another laptop
computer. |
| 7 |
Alan Liu and William Warner present
the Transcriptions project and its current funding
needs to a group of local executives in the business, software,
and media fields. The event was organized by David Marshall, Dean
of Humanities at UCSB, and the UCSB Office of Development. |
| 1-16 |
Development work on Web sites for Alan
Liu's fall Hyperliterature
course and Christopher Newfield's winter business
culture course. |
| 1 |
Meeting with Transcriptions summer
research assistants to plan work on the Hypertext Literature Resources
page, the classroom survey project, the creation of course pages
for next year. |
| July 2000 |
| 17 |
Meeting with Transcriptions spring
and summer research assistants to plan the continuation of ongoing
tasks and new tasks. |
| June 2000 |
| 23 |
Meeting with Transcriptions research
assistants for spring and summer 2000 to assign tasks for the
summer months. Developers' Tasksheet
started to facilitate coordination of work assignments. |
| 5 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Charles
Bazerman, Professor of English and Education, UCSB, "Nuclear
Information: One Rhetorical Moment in the Construction of the
Information Age" |
| June |
Transcriptions purchases copies of
each work in the catalogue of Eastgate, Inc., to start its library
of hypertext fiction, poetry, and theory. Work begins on cataloguing
and annotating hyperliterature works in preparation for courses
on the topic in academic year 2000-2001. |
| May 2000 |
| 23 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Rita
Raley, Asst. Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Lecture: "How to Make Things with Words:
Hypertext and Literary Value"
Workshop: "Taxonomies of Hypertext Fiction"
Reading: Espen Aarseth, "Introduction: Ergodic Literature"
(available online at the site for his Cybertext
book)
|
| 5 |
Meeting on pedagogical issues: debriefing
on Carol Pasternack's winter course on "Screen to Scroll";
planning for English 65 in academic year 2000-2001 (the first
Transcriptions lower-division course) |
| May
- June |
Jeanne Scheper works with Chris Newfield
to begin preparing his business culture course next fall for the
Web. Robert Hamm researches IT-enabled classrooms around the UCSB
campus. |
| April 2000 |
| 21 |
Meeting to discuss new network system
and new security protocols; assignment of research-assistant tasks
for spring quarter; debriefing on Chris Schedler's winter course
on "Weaving Webs" |
| 10 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Harry
Reese, Prof. of Art Studio, UCSB, "The Trailing Edge of Technology:
A Field Trip to Professor Reese's Studio" |
| 3 |
Transcriptions moves its Web site to
a new NT server with dual processors |
| April
- June |
Transcriptions offers one course this
quarter: William Warner's English
122TG, "Cyborg Genealogies: the Gothic" |
| March 2000 |
| 13 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: M.
D. Coverley (pen name of Marjorie C. Luesebrink) MFA, Hypertext
Fiction Artist & Professor of English, Irvine Valley C., "The
Crimson Orb: Technology and Women on the WWW" |
| 9 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Barbara
Cohen, Director, UC Irvine HumaniTech:
Computer Resources for Faculty Research and Teaching, "A
Chat with Barbara Cohen" |
| 7 |
Transcriptions extends its database
technology to create a new resource: a Bookshelf
of the works that are helping to shape the intellectual direction
of the project—works in a variety of media that developers in
the project or speakers in its colloquium series have been reading
(or creating). Searchable citations accompanied by annotations
or commentary. |
| 3 |
Alan Liu gives presentation
on the instructional use of information technology at the UCSB
Science-Humanities Forum on "The Classroom of the Future" |
| February 2000 |
| 15 |
Fanie Debeer, chair of the Informatics
Dept. at U. South Africa, Pretoria, visits the Transcriptions
project and sits in on the class
on hypertext in Alan Liu's graduate seminar on the Culture
of Information. |
| 7 |
Transcriptions Public Lecture:
Matt Kirschenbaum,
Asst. Professor of English, U. Kentucky, "Understanding Information"
|
| 7 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Matt
Kirschenbaum, Asst. Professor of English, U. Kentucky, "New
Media in the Curriculum and the Job Market" |
| January 2000 |
| Jan.
to Mar. |
Three new Transcriptions courses are
taught:
|
| Jan.
to Feb. |
Karen Whitney (Computer and Network
Technologist for the English Dept. and Transcriptions) installs
a more powerful Dell server for the Transcriptions project. The
server is a dual-processor machine with RAID-5 running Windows
NT 4 (SP4), IIS, Exchange, and Filemaker Pro 4.1 with Web Companion. |
| 22-Feb.
22 |
Work on proposal for UCSB Instructional
Improvement grant; revision of the Project Log and related project
development pages |
| 25 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Ann
Bermingham, Professor of Art History, UCSB, "Narrative, Memory,
Archive: Some Thoughts on Louisa Conolly's Print Room at Castletown,
Co. Kildare" |
| 8-15 |
Creation of an image stockpile (original
images taken with a digital camera) for use in the graphical development
of the Transcriptions site |
| 6-15 |
Eric Feay (Transcriptions design specialist
and undergraduate research assistant) researches streaming media
and chat software for possible future implementation in Transcriptions
courses. |
| 1-21 |
Purchase and installation of new scanner
for the Transcriptions studio. |
| December 1999 |
| Dec.
to Jan. 2000 |
Intensive work on Web pages for new
Transcriptions courses for Winter
quarter, 1999-2000. |
| 17 |
End-of-quarter meeting: review of course
and development work during quarter; discussion of areas that
need work; discussion of courses to be proposed for academic year
2000-2001 |
| 14 |
Faculty and staff of the UCSB Art History
Dept. inspect the Transcriptions studio to plan for possible future
deployment of computer projection equipment in Art History classrooms. |
| 4 |
Presentation of Transcriptions project
to planning meeting
for the proposed
U. California Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) in Digital Culture.
If approved, the facilities, staff, and precedents of Transcriptions
would serve as the seed for an annual series of cross-campus and
cross-disciplinary events in the UC system--including a summer
institute and conference, a graduate student conference, and a
casebook series on the humanities and information technology.
Present at this planning meeting are:
- William Warner, English, UCSB (Principal Investigator)
- Anne Friedburg, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
- Katherine Hayles, English, UCLA
- Robert Essick, English, UC Riverside
- Earl Jackson, Literature Board, UC Santa Cruz
- Alan Liu, English, UCSB
- J. Hillis Miller, English and Comparative Literature, UC
Irvine
- Mark Poster, History and Visual Studies, UC Irvine
- Mark Rose, English, UCSB
- Daniel Schiller, Communications, UC San Diego
|
| 3 |
Transcriptions Public Lecture:
J.Hillis Miller, Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
UC Irvine: "Marcel on the Telephone" |
| 3 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: J.Hillis
Miller, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine. |
| November 1999 |
| Nov.
to Dec. |
William Warner researches and purchases
a mini-DVD video camera, Firewire video card, and the Adobe Premiere
program for the Transcriptions studio. The equipment will be used
to incorporate video material in Transcriptions courses. |
| Nov.
to Dec. |
Chris Schedler (Transcriptions research
assistant) staffs weekly technical-support sessions in the Transcriptions
studio for undergraduates in Transcriptions courses. |
| Nov.
15-20 |
Creation of a new Transcriptions resource
page on "Web-Authoring
Basics" in response to the expressed need of undergraduates
in Transcriptions courses to understand the fundamental logic
of Web work. This Basics page now serves as an antechamber to
the more advanced Transcriptions "Learning
Web-Authoring" page. |
| 15 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Alan
Liu, Professor of English, UCSB, "Should
We Historicize the Culture of Information" |
| 12 |
Transcriptions "jam" session
to review current work. |
| 5 |
Updating of posters in the UCSB English
Dept. publicizing Transcriptions courses. |
| 2 |
Chris Schedler (Transcriptions research
assistant) gives technical workshop in the Transcriptions studio
for undergraduates in Transcriptions courses. |
| 1 |
Fund-Raising Event: Alan Liu
presents Transcriptions at a UCSB Chancellor's Community Breakfast
on the theme of "The New Literacy: Arts and Humanities in
the Information Age" |
| October 1999 |
| 24 |
The Transcriptions project becomes
the basis for a draft proposal for a concentration on "Literature
and the Culture of Information." This concentration will
be one of the new elective "tracks" within the UCSB
English undergraduate major. |
| 19 |
Outreach Event: Chris Schedler
(Transcriptions research assistant) presents his Transcriptions
topic page on "Weaving
Webs: Native-American Literature, Oral Culture, Internet"
to two 11th-grade classes at Santa Barbara's Bishop Diego High
School as part of UCSB's Academic Outreach program. |
| 18 |
Chris Schedler, Caroline Brehm, Diana
Solomon, Bill Warner, and Alan Liu offer a Workshop on the hardware
/ software environment and social / cyber- etiquette for graduate
students and faculty working in the Transcriptions computing studio.
|
| 13 |
Alan Liu and Chris Schedler meet to
go over the procedures for working with the Transcriptions project
Filemaker Pro databases. |
| |
Web and database support pages created
for a variety of future Transcriptions course and topics pages. |
| |
The Transcriptions
Colloquium series becomes both a public workshop series and
a credit-bearing course for participating graduate students. |
| September 1999 (Beginning
of Academic Year) |
| Sept.
to Dec. |
Alan Liu teaches the first official
Transcriptions course for undergraduates, English
165CI, "The Culture of Information" |
| Sept.
to Dec. |
Karen Whitney (Computer and Network
Technologist for the English Dept. and Transcriptions) converts
department network from Novell to Windows NT, purchases new servers
and workstations, and implements Y2K upgrades. Alan Liu, Bill
Warner, Mark Rose, Chris Nelson, and Karen Whitney discuss the
long-range technical development strategy of the English Dept.
and Transcriptions. |
| 29 |
Beginning of the school year meeting:
introduction of new research assistants and new staff; review
of progress on project; assignment of new tasks for project participants |
| 21 |
Presentation of the Transcriptions
project to new graduate students in the English Department. |
| 9 |
Presentation of the Transcriptions
project to Sanjoy Banerjee of the Chemical Engineering Dept.;
discussion of online classroom systems and the possibility of
Transcriptions using Banerjee's new EZ-College.com
online course creation platform (subsequently renamed MetaCollege.com).
|
| 8 |
Bill Warner and Alan Liu meet with
the members of the UC DARNet group to discuss the possible creation
of a combined MRG (UC system muti-research group unit); also discussion
of plans for a separate MRG on the culture of information or "Digital
Culture " that would be launched from the Transcriptions project.
It was decided to pursue a
separate MRG. |
| Sept.
to Oct. |
Installation of second Transcriptions
multimedia projector in English Dept. seminar room for instructional
use. |
| August 1999 |
| Aug.
to Sept. |
Intense Web development work: including
finalization of new Web design for the project and preparation
for its roll-out at the end of the summer, movement of existing
content into the new design, creation of templates for Filemaker
Pro Web pages (for the project timelines and linkbases), completion
of course site for Alan Liu's fall course on "The
Culture of Information," and work on future courses and associated
topics pages (Bill Warner's page on "Censorship,"
Carol Pasternack's course on "From
Scroll to Screen"). |
| 26 |
Transcriptions jam session (informal
workshop for technical development). |
| 5 |
Presentation of the Transcriptions
project to Bruce Bimber of the Political Science department; discussion
of possible tie-ins with the new UCSB Center
for Information Technology and Society, which Bimber directs.
|
| |
Recruitment of Karen
Whitney, new Computer and Network Technologist (with system
administration and NT experience), for English Dept. and the Transcriptions
Project. |
| July 1999 |
| July
to Aug. |
Creation of new instructional
resource pages for the project, including a guide
to online research and a guide
to evaluating and citing online materials. |
| July
to Aug. |
Planning and scheduling for Transcriptions
colloquia for 1999-2000. |
| 30 |
Meeting between Alan Liu, Christopher
Newfield, and Chris Schedler to discuss research and technical
work needed for his future Transcriptions course. |
| |
Upgrades to the computing studio, including:
purchase and installation of two new workstations, ceiling-mounting
for XGA multimedia projector, purchase of second XGA multimedia
projector (for use in department seminar room for Transcriptions
courses), installation of a dual-monitor set up on one of the
studio workstations, upgrades to Office 2000, etc. |
| June 1999 |
| 23 |
Workshop
organized and led by Chris Schedler to introduce new Transcriptions
research assistants and others to the project's studio, equipment,
network, and software. The workshop will be repeated each quarter.
|
| 16 |
First of the Transcriptions "jam" sessions
(informal workshops for developers to share ideas and technical
learning, review progress on the Web site, etc.). Jam sessions
occur from this time on between faculty and student research assistants
roughly every month. |
| 7 |
Year-end meeting to review status of
project development, plan for work in the summer and next academic
year, and introduce new research assistants to the project. |
| May 1999 |
| 24 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Carol
Pasternak (Professor of English, UCSB), "Using the Web in the
Writing Components of Literature Courses" |
| 23 |
Fund-Raising Event: Alan Liu
presents the Transcriptions project before the Friends of the
UCSB English Department, a private support group for the department.
|
| 17 |
Presentation by Eric Feay, design specialist
for Transcriptions, of prototype pages for the revised Web site
for the project, to be rolled out in summer 1999. |
| 17 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Chris
Schedler, "Weaving
Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, Internet"
|
| 15 |
Fund-Raising Event: Fund-raising
talk by Alan Liu and Bill Warner before the Trustees of the UCSB
Foundation. Introduction by David Marshall, UCSB Dean of Humanities.
|
| 7 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Muriel
Zimmerman (Writing Program, UCSB), "Digital Writing: A Technical
Communication Perspective" |
| April 1999 |
| Apr.
to June |
Teaching of two prototype courses for
the project: Alan Liu's English
188: Theory of the Postmodern and Bill Warner's English
197: Techno-gothic: Entertainment Terror in Novel and Film, from
the 18th Century. |
| 26 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Jackie
Spafford (Dept. of Art History, Slide Curator, UCSB), "Student-Assigned
Websites" (presentation & discussion) |
| 20 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: Richard
Grusin (Professor of Communications, Georgia Tech U.), "The
Web and Cultural Difference"; also discussion of a chapter
from his recently published book, Remediation: Understanding New
Media |
| 14 |
Budget meeting (Chris Nelson, Lynn
Thompson, Alan Liu). |
| 12 |
Transcriptions Colloquium: William
Paulson (Professor of Romance Studies, U. Michigan), Discussion
of Chapter V, "Literary
Culture and the Worlds of Science" from his recently completed
book, Literary Culture and the Life of the World |
| 5-14 |
Purchasing research for acquisition
of a XGA-class multimedia projector; purchase completed by April
20th. |
| |
Alan Liu meets individually with faculty
teaching courses in the project in 1999-2000 to set up faculty/research
assistant collaboration for course development. |
| |
Recruitment and selection of project
research assistants for summer 1999 and academic year 1999-2000
(positions officially announced May 10). |
| March 1999 |
| Mar.
to Apr. |
Intense work on designing Filemaker
Pro databases with a Web interface for courses in which student
teams will build timelines and annotated bibliographies on topics.
|
| |
Meeting of Transcriptions instructional
design group, faculty teaching in the project in 1999-2000, and
research assistants to plan course strategies. |
| February 1999 |
| Feb.
to Mar. |
Creation of early resource and topics
pages for Transcriptions Web site. |
| 2-26 |
Writing of interim
progress report for NEH and creation of supporting online
documents. |
| January 1999 |
| 14
to Feb. 1 |
Writing of Instructional
Improvement grant proposal and creation of supporting online
documents. |
| 14 |
Meeting with the project Web-design
group (Bill Warner, Chris Schedler, Laurie Ellinghausen, Vince
Willoughby, Jennifer Hellwarth, Jennifer Jones) to plan Web design
work. |
| 12-25 |
Creation of project home page and other
early Web pages |
| December 1998 |
| 3 |
Fund-Raising Event: Meeting
with UCSB Campus Development officers (also attending: Mark Rose,
Alan Liu, Bill Warner, Chris Nelson) to discuss strategy for fund-raising.
|
| 2 |
Meeting of instructional design group
to finalize scheduling of courses for 1999-2000; also, discussion
of Bill Warner's idea for a project research/pedagogy colloquium.
|
| November 1998 |
| 24
to late Dec. |
Alan Liu installs, sets up, configures, and upgrades the Transcriptions
project server and the Microsoft Backoffice suite. Other tasks:testing
of the Exchange Server messaging environment and its Web access
component; networking of studio client machines to the server;
configuring the IIS Web server program on the server.
|
| 23 |
Demo of HTML-authoring software in
the computing studio by Alan Liu for the Transactions team plus
other interested department members and Muriel Zimmerman and her
team. |
| 2 |
Meeting of instructional-design group
to plan course development work, schedule courses for 1999-2000,
discuss courses in future years, discuss use of information technology
in classes. |
| October 1998 |
| 22-30 |
Application on the software in the
studio is installed, configured, registered, updated, etc. |
| 21 |
Computer studio formally dedicated
at department reception; Barry Spacks presents dedicatory verses.
|
| 19 |
Computer studio equipment set up by
Alan Liu and TJ Ortega (4 Dell pcs; configuration of Windows 98
OS; installation of Hotmetal, Dreamweaver, Fireworks). (Configuration/
maintenance of studio equipment continues on a daily or weekly
basis from this point on.) |
| 5 |
Meeting (Liu, Warner, Pasternack, Bazerman,
Ellinghausen, Willoughby, Jones, Schedler): reports on studio
construction, fund-raising, instructional research; organization
of Web- authoring and instructional design teams. |
| September 1998 (Beginning
of Academic Year) |
| 29 |
Meeting of Liu with Ellinghausen and
Willoughby: assignment of duties for RAs in early part of fall quarter
(research into instructional use of IT) |
| 14 |
Meeting (Liu, Warner, Pasternack, Rose,
Bazerman, Ellinghausen, Willoughby, Hellwarth, Ortega, Nelson):
review of workplan for the year; reports on progress on construction
of studio and furniture orders; detailed presentation of plans and
options for buying equipment (including price quotes on servers
from Dell, Micron, and IBM). |
| 9 |
Meeting (Liu, Warner, Ortega): reviewing
furniture choices for lab and measuring/planning in the under-construction
lab. |
| 4 |
Meeting (Liu, Ortega) to discuss server
choices. |
| August 1998 |
| 21 |
Meeting (Liu, Warner, Nelson, Ortega,
Lynn) to go over accounting, purchasing, and other rules pertaining
to administration of the project. Initial discussion of plans for
equipment and furniture purchases. Discussion of fund-raising. |
(Last revised
4/8/01
)
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