Sessions include: audio-editing, improving sound quality, producing podcasts, mixing multiple audio sources. Please check session description for details. (more info...)

Blackboard courseware workshops designed for faculty, instructors and graduate students. (more info...)

Penn has chosen Turning Point clicker technology that integrates with PowerPoint. We will explore creating clicker questions, testing, using clickers in class and connecting the data to your Blackboard course. Assumes working knowledge of PowerPoint and restricted to faculty, instructors and librarians. More info at http://wic.library.upenn.edu/multimedia/clickers/ (more info...)

Explore Comic Life's ability to quickly create a comic book or graphic novel. Bring in images, screen shots from movies, scanned drawings and other graphics. Add effects and push the boundaries of comic book design. Print, or make a web version with ease. (more info...)

We will explore strategies appropriate for a conference presentation including engaging the audience, using visual support such as PowerPoint, communicating research results, and fielding questions. We will conduct hands-on activities, evaluating and revising examples. Please email wic1@pobox.upenn.edu with any presentation materials that you would like the presenters to comment upon. Presented by Anu Vedantham and Sue Weber. (more info...)

Learn the basics of how to create your own personal bibliographic citation database using this popular personal information management commercial program. The workshop will focus on how to manually enter references into your database, load citations from a bibliographic database into EndNote and insert them into a document in an appropriate manuscript style. NOTE: The Library has purchased a site license for the networked bibliographic management program, RefWorks. If you have not yet purchased Endnote, consider attending a Refworks workshop as an alternative. (more info...)

Explore student engagement through technology. The symposium will include faculty insights, hands-on exploration and small-group discussion. Open to Penn faculty, instructors and graduate students. The morning session is now full. Please register for afternoon sessions only at this link: http://tinyurl.com/nkwrzb (more info...)

This series is designed for faculty and instructors and provides hands-on experiences with new media, software and online resources. (more info...)

Communication within the Curriculum (CWiC), Weingarten Learning Resources Center (VPUL), Writing Center and Penn Libraries assist undergraduates with research, writing, presentation, organization and technology. (more info...)

Google is changing the way people find and use information. (more info...)

Students will be introduced to ArcGIS software and will learn how to make a map using data from Census2000. Students with some GIS knowledge who would like to learn more about adding census data, and those new to GIS are welcome to attend. To decide whether this workshop is right for you, contact Laurie Allen (laallen@pobox.upenn.edu). (more info...)

We will discuss book review searches, play and theater reviews, MLA International Bibliography, subject databases in literature and area studies resources (more info...)

Learn to use the two library-supported citation management programs, EndNote and RefWorks, to import citations from databases, search a personal library of citations, and insert citations into a journal article or document in the style of your choice. (more info...)

This popular spreadsheet package provides significant data analysis and graphing capabilities. (more info...)

PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your online resources. You will learn how to set up your computer to get started with Penntags, and how to use Penntags to add and annotate books, journal articles, films, and websites. http://tags.library.upenn.edu (more info...)

This professional image-editing software assists with online and print publications. (more info...)

Learn the basics of PowerPoint hands-on. Participants will learn to create new presentations, apply design templates, manipulate text, insert graphics, prepare notes and handouts from PowerPoint slides, save presentations, and more. (more info...)

Learn the basics of how to create your own personal bibliographic citation database using this web-based bibliographic management tool. The workshop will focus on how to create a personal database online, import references automatically from databases and library catalogs, organize and annotate references, format references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word documents and more. NOTE: RefWorks is freely available to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff. (more info...)

Second Life is an interactive virtual environment that shows promise for educational and creative activities in several disciplines. (more info...)

Learn advanced searching techniques that will allow you to determine if specific authors and works have been cited in the writings of other writers. These search techniques enable researchers to trace how various studies have influenced or have been influenced by others, as well as find relevant resources for their own work. (more info...)

This series showcases new technologies. Vendor presentations may include sales-related content. Please feel free to bring your lunch with you. (more info...)

This workshop is designed for faculty and researchers at Penn to learn how to use Selected Works, an easy to use interface for creating personal research web pages and Scholarly Commons, an online archive of scholarly articles and books. We will actually be setting up accounts and creating web pages at the workshop, so come prepared with CVs, articles, or other materials you might like to put online. (more info...)

Learn how to use the Weigle Information Commons Videorecording rooms. We will explore recording and camera options hands-on and discuss troubleshooting. (more info...)

These workshops, offered at various levels, provide guidance on good web design principles, overview tools available and enable exploration of the technical aspects of web design. (more info...)

Zotero is a great way to organize your online resources, bibliographies, blog posts and PDFs. Keep track of what you have found, and find it again easily. (more info...)

This class will provide a hands-on introduction to using Apple's iMovie '09 software, which is available for Penn students, faculty, and staff in the Vitale Digital Media Lab. You will learn how to capture video, organize or delete video clips, add a new soundtrack, add subtitles, and create special effects. You will also learn how to export your video into a usable form so that you can share your masterpiece with others. (more info...)