I need look no further than Sophia Travis for an example of what benefit technology has brought to me. I met Sophia through the local RootsCamp unconference I arranged for Bloomington after the fall elections, but I don’t think that event would have made it past the day dreaming stage without email and the Web.
Sophia is one of the pioneering elected officials making use of the transparent benefits of Web 2.0 tools—she blogs. She blogs about living in the community, about her own personal interests and activities, and she blogs about her day (and night) job as a Monroe County Councilperson. The world in which I want to live has all parts of government communicating in that kind of open manner.
This week—after encouraging her to come to campus to see the project presentations from the first-year master’s students on the 24th-26th—Sophia asked me to guest blog about the community-campus partnerships integral to the HCI design course taught by Eli Blevis. I hope the plug for the student work and service-learning in general will generate some (not overwhelming) foot traffic when they start clicking on presentation slides next week.
Thanks for sharing your space, Sophia.
This is a busy time of year for the Informatics community, but I’ll pass along the presentation schedule here, too, in case there are those who can make the trip.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24th – Library 033
4:00-4:30p CAPE
4:30-5:00p Monroe County Historical Society
5:00-5:30p Mathers Museum
5:30-6:00p Mathers Museum
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25th – Woodburn Hall 101
4:00-4:30p Buskirk-Chumley Theater
4:30-5:00p Humanetrix
5:00-5:30p CATS
THURSDAY, APRIL 26th – IU Library 033
4:00-4:30p Non-profit Alliance
4:30-5:00p BEAD
5:00-5:30p Sustainability City Initiative