Blogging and WordPress Tutorial: December 11, 2007, 2pm

This tutorial will discuss the basics of using wordpress to create a blog for academic or course-related needs. Among the topics of discussion will be the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, or the differences between downloadable blogging software and a website that provides blogs hosted free of charge.

To get an idea of what, exactly, blogs are, check out the video “Blogs in Plain English.”

Dreamweaver Tutorials

Transcriptions will be offering several web-authoring with Dreamweaver tutorials in the coming weeks. These tutorials are open to everyone but are designed specifically to aid students who have web-authoring assignments due at the end of the quarter. The tutorial will cover basic skills including: defining the site, connecting to UWeb through FTP, making simple pages, making links, adding images, using tables, and uploading pages. It will also provide resources for intermediate skills (like using templates, layers, and graphics).

Please mark your calendars and announce these times to your students should your class have a web assignment:
Tuesday November 13, 11:00-12:00
Wednesday November 14, 2:30-3:30
Wednesday November 28, 4:00-5:00
Thursday November 29, 3:00-4:00
(All in Transcriptions, SH 2509)

For more details visit the Dreamweaver Tutorial webpage.

Event: Second Life Rollout

Tuesday October 23rd, 2007

2:00 -3:00 PM

South Hall 2635

Mark your calendars for this exciting event showcasing the UCSB Second Life project, an experimental classroom space in the online world of Second Life. Discussion will be led by Professor Rita Raley along with team manager Robin Chin, Clayton Childress and Rob Robinson who contributed sociological research to the project, and lead designer Haru Ji (MAT). A lesson in new forms of pedagogy as well as an exhibit of the amazing art project designed by Haru Ji, this event is not to be missed!

For more information about the project, please visit the Transcription’s Second Life Project blog.

Transcriptions/LCI 2007-2008 Introductory Meeting

The Transcriptions center is holding a beginning-of-year meeting on Tuesday
October 16th at 4 pm in South Hall 2509 (the Transcriptions studio). It’s a
chance to widen our circle by welcoming new graduate students interested in
sci/tech/media/information issues–including history of all the above–and
also to plan activities and directions. Please come to the meeting if you
have an interest in Transcriptions–or even if you are just one of the folks
who use our facilities frequently and are part of our extended community.

Fall Hours 2007

The Fall Quarter Hours for the Transcriptions Center:

Tuesdays: 11:00-4:00

Wednesdays: 2:30-5:30

Thursdays: 10:00-2:00

Additional Hours:

• Friday Nov 30, 12:00-3:00
• Friday Dec 7, 12:00-3:00
• Monday Dec 10, 2:00-5:00

Please feel free to email the Transcriptions RA, Kris McAbee , for an appointment outside of these hours.

NB: There will be no drop-in hours Oct 30-Nov 1 or Nov 20-22.

Event: Giles Bergel presents “From Copperplate to TeX: Annotating the Material Text”

Friday, June 1st, 2007

12:00 PM

South Hall 2509

 

Textual scholarship is reorienting itself around competing discourses of the material text and the digital edition, the one insisting on the irreducible materiality of the artefactual text, the other attesting to what might be called the transcriptionality of text – its ability to survive many remediations and copyings, regardless of its form of origin or mode of transcription. This paper will explore the materiality and transcriptionality of two writing technologies – copperplate engraving, originating in early-modern print culture; and TeX, a digital typesetting system originating in the late twentieth century. It will show how each technology instantiates its own materiality while facilitating transcription, and will propose that annotation – defined as the non-destructive markup of text or a surrogate – offers some practical solutions to the competing claims of a curatorial and an editorial scholarly practice.

Spring Hours 2007

The Spring Quarter Hours for the Transcriptions Center:

Mondays: 10:00-3:00

Tuesdays: 10:00-1:30, 3:30-5:00

Thursdays: 11:30-1:30

Please feel free to email the Transcriptions RA, Kris McAbee , for an appointment outside of these hours.

Event: Professor Harry Reese presents “If It Works, It’s Obsolete: Retrieving Marshall McLuhan”

In this talk, “If It Works, It’s Obsolete: Retrieving Marshall McLuhan,” Prof. Harry Reese (UCSB Arts Department) will talk about the insight and influence of fmed media theorist Marshall McLuhan (The Medium is the Massage, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man)– both generally, in terms of cultural history and patterns, and specifically, in terms of his influence on Reese’s on creative work, teaching and practice.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

South Hall 2617

4:00-5:00 PM

Event: Transcriptions Research Colloquium

The Transcription Studio’s First Ever
Transcriptions Research Colloquium

 

This Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Transcriptions Studio (SH 2509)
3:00PM – 5:30PM

Event: “Forbidden Planet” Screening

“Forbidden Planet” (1956)
A Screening and Discussion
This WEDNESDAY JAN. 31ST, 2007
Transcriptions Center, SH 2509
12:00-2:00PM

Please join us for the Transcription Center’s first Winter 2007 FLS
Event: a screening and discussion of the 1956 science fiction film
classic FORBIDDEN PLANET. Some snacks will be provided, as will a few
handouts on the background of the film.