Honors Thesis Colloquium 2009-10

Hi,

Below is the link to this week’s assingment.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/scp85/2009/11/11/7/

http://www.umt.edu/ncur2010/

Janet, I still don’t see your annotated bibliography on your site so please put it on immediately. Your annotations are extremely well done, with precise summaries and valuable indications of how the sources either enhance your own argument or point to complexities/complications in it. Be sure to include all access dates for online sources. I gather from what you said in class that you also now have the full citation for the sources that were incomplete.

A few notes on specific sources:
Sorensen is now dated in relation to your topic so be sure to indicate it’s context from 1994 and comment on continuities or changes since then.

Please indicate if certain terms belong to you or your source: parachute children (from Lee, Kee Hong) and Englishization (from Song Jae Jung). If these are from the source, place in quotes. If they are your terms, you might say something like this: what I call parachute children.

When you use abbreviations for organizations, always provide the full name for the first reference, for example with CECD/CERI (Chun, Seyeun and Sohwa Park).

Thought this program might be of interest to some, seeing that we were on the topic of presentation and organization the other day. Its fairly easy to use, thought it is difficult to figure out how and why to use it, at least at first.

Here’s a brief overview and video:

http://vue.tufts.edu/screencast/QT_hiRes.cfm

Hi everybody,

Below is a link and description of relief web (taken from the website itself). It is a database that provides articles on disaster relief and humanitarian emergencies.  It might be useful to some of you.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/hlp.nsf/db900ByKey/AboutReliefWeb?OpenDocument

ABOUT RELIEF WEB

Who We Are

ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of “forgotten emergencies” at the same time.

ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 and is administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Recognizing how critical the availability of reliable and timely information in time of humanitarian emergencies is, the UN General Assembly endorsed the creation of ReliefWeb and encouraged humanitarian information exchange through ReliefWeb by all governments, relief agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Resolution 51/194 on 10 February 1997. The General Assembly reiterated the importance of information sharing in emergencies and of taking advantage of OCHA’s emergency information services such as ReliefWeb in Resolution 57/153 on 3 March 2003.

ReliefWeb has seen steady growth in usage. In 2002, ReliefWeb received 1.5 million hits per week, and in 2004, the site received approximately 1 million hits a day. Shortly after the South Asia Tsunami disaster of December 2004, it received 3 million hits a day on average.

ReliefWeb maintains three offices in three different time zones (New York, Geneva, and Kobe) to update the web site around the clock. The total budget for the project is USD 2 million (2005), the bulk of which is supported by voluntary contributions by donors.

In recognition of its successful virtual teamwork among three offices, ReliefWeb received two UN21 awards in March 2004 in the areas of “knowledge management” and “improvements to the working environment.”

>>For information about OCHA, see OCHA on-line
>>To contact ReliefWeb, see Contact Us
>>For more donor information, see Donor Support

What We Do

ReliefWeb disseminates timely, reliable and relevant humanitarian information by updating its web site around the clock. In addition, ReliefWeb reaches over 70,000 subscribers through its e-mail subscription services, allowing those who have low bandwidth Internet connections to receive information reliably.

ReliefWeb posts some 150 maps and documents daily from over 2,000 source from the UN system, governments, NGOs, academia and the media. Map Centre also creates original ReliefWeb maps.

All documents posted on the site are classified and archived in the ReliefWeb document database, allowing advanced searching of documents from past emergency responses. The database contains nearly 300,000 maps and documents dating back to 1981.

In addition to Map Centre and emergency updates by latest or by country, region, and emergency, ReliefWeb offers various resource sections specifically targeted to relief professionals: – Appeals and Funding – Funding appeals for complex emergencies and natural disasters and financial tracking of responses to funding requirements
- Policies and Issues – On-line library of reference materials covering humanitarian policies and issues of global nature
- Professional Resources – Information of practical use for relief professionals, including a sectoral or thematic listing of “communities of practice,” listings of job opportunities and  training opportunities, and an information providers’ directory.

The site also offers a “web feed” service to deliver customized content to partners’ web sites. The service allows users to further utilize the ReliefWeb’s content, thereby avoiding duplication of efforts.

Hi,

Below is the link to my position paper.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/stanllano/2009/11/04/position-paper/

-Stan

Hi everybody,

Below is the link to my annotated bibliography. It is still a work in progress.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/stanllano/2009/11/04/annotated-bibliography/

-Stan

Check out this WIRED article on Pecha Kucha (otherwise known as fast-and-thorough PowerPoint presentations). Could you present your work effectively under these constraints? Is this a solution to the droning, lengthy PowerPoint presentation we all know and love to hate?

Watch the video at the end of the article, if you have time. I’d love to hear what y’all think in the comments!

I’m not holding office hours on 10/28 or 10/29. E-mail me if you need anything–otherwise, see y’all in November.

Hi, please let me know which time you want for an optional conference.
Nor has the 2 PM slot. The following are free. Reply on comments so we know which ones are taken as sign-ups occur. Thanks!
2:30
3:00
3:30
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