Blossoming Bride Earrings

I have been promising to write a “Photo for Dummies” type tutorial for ages now and here is a paired down version, FINALLY…

These tips are mostly for shooting jewelry or small objects.

1. Props; something that will enhance and not detract from the item you’re shooting. Simple is best, in terms of color, texture and pattern. The item is the star of the photo, not the prop or the background.

Items I have found make good props/backgrounds:

Books, you can use the cover, or the inside pages

Large shells

Candle holders (like glass votive holders)

Small bowls

Decorative papers, but be careful that the pattern isn’t too bold or busy.

The Starfish Necklace

2. Styling; creating a beautiful, interesting scene.

This is an important part of the photo shoot. Play around with different props and different background papers to find out which best suits the item. The more you do this the easier this will become. You will become familiar with which props lend themselves to which types of items, but it’s all trial and error…

3. Lighting; NATURAL DAYLIGHT is best! Don’t fight it. If you have access to natural daylight, use it. Set up a “table top” studio next to a window that gets lots of natural light. Because jewelry is small a large, simple window sill may also work. Direct sunlight is too harsh, I use a pre-cut section of facing (not the iron on kind!) and some strategically placed self adhesive hook and loop tape to hang this ‘diffuser’ in the window and soften the bright sunlight. You will also want to use a reflector of some sort to reflect light back onto your item. I use a white plastic storage box top. You can experiment with the reflector by looking through your camera viewfinder while holding the reflector in various positions. It’s truly amazing the depth this extra step can add to a photo and this step should not be neglected.

4. Camera; You don’t need to invest in a high-end, expensive camera! I use a very inexpensive point and shoot digital camera, a Canon SD1000, but most importantly it has a macro feature.

A tripod is also imperative if you want nice, focused shots. It’s impossible to take a focused, macro shot without a tripod (at least I’ve never been successful!) I purchased a tripod for under $20.

Setting up your camera angle is just as important as styling your photos, so experiment with as many different angles as possible. Again, the more you shoot, finding the right angle gets easier, but it’s always trial and error.

There are also ways to play with the focus of your photo. If you want the foreground in focus and the background blurry then you can use the little square in the center of your camera’s screen to find the focus point (the focus point is at the center of this square, i.e. the center of the photo) to manipulate this you can move the camera so the square is centered on your chosen focus point, hold the shutter down half way, the camera will focus on that point, then, while still holding the shutter 1/2 way move the camera back to centering the item then take the photo. This also is a lot of experimentation and I didn’t figure this out until about 6 months after I attempted taking photos of my jewelry.

A more detailed explanation of the above technique:

Your camera is on the tripod. You have your item centered in the photo where you like it. But, instead of focusing on the ‘center’ of the image you tilt the camera down (or up depending on where you want the focus) to center that little square icon (in the center of your screen) on the foreground portion of your item, THEN you hold the shutter 1/2 way down, once focused on that section you keep the shutter held 1/2 way down and you tilt the camera back to the original position then press the shutter fully to snap the photo. You can also focus on the background and have the foreground blurry….

If you have a white balance feature on your camera use it. This will save you some time in Photoshop or whichever photo editing program you use.

I can honestly say that if I can take good product photos ANYONE can! I have never taken a photography class (as I’m certain is evidenced by my tutorial) It took me approximately 6 months of experimenting with all of the above to get the quality of photos I’m capable of today, and I’m still learning and improving with each photo shoot.

P.S.-Don’t expect stellar photos the first time around. You need to find your groove and that takes time and experience. Believe me, my first photos were dull to be kind.

A sad first attempt. Not bad, but not great either.

Source: http://shopsomethingblue.blogspot.com/2010/07/quick-dirty-photo-tutorial.html

Not too long ago someone asked me, “When I tithe (give 10% of my income to the church), where does the money go?” That’s a fair question. However, before I get to that question, let me answer another one: “When we “give to God,” why do we do it through the local church?”

In the first half of the Bible (the Old Testament), God’s followers were commanded to bring tithes and offerings into the “storehouse.” The resources were to be used for the ongoing ministry at the temple (Malachi 3:10). The “storehouse” was a place to store food, equipment and valuables. The tithes and offerings were used for the upkeep of the temple, ministry purposes (taking care of widows and orphans), and allowing priests to give full-time attention to God’s Kingdom.

Today we give to God through the local church for similar reasons. Among the many descriptions used for the church in the second half of the Bible (the New Testament), one of the most amazing ones is that the church is God’s body (Romans 12:4-5, Ephesians 1:22-23, etc.). That’s right, the local church is God’s hands and feet on this planet. Collectively, the resources we give are to further advance God’s Kingdom in our area.

At Canyon Church this includes: mailers (inviting people to hear of God’s grace); leasing a place to meet; salary so that the pastor (uh…that would be me) can give full-time attention to ministry purposes (though currently I’m working a second job out of necessity); operational expenses; children’s ministry; tech equipment; and 10% of whatever we receive in giving is passed forward to charity, missions, and/or taking care of any widows and orphans that cross our path (so Canyon Church tithes too).

Next week (August 8th at 10:00 AM) we will begin to meet at Optimist Park in Nampa (11th Ave. N. and Birch Lane) for the next month (or so) as we search out a new meeting place that is more conducive to reaching unchurched people. Our main goal at the park will be to build relationships and to rally together to improve our atmosphere and effectiveness toward reaching unchurched people.

With that said, it’s going to take some some coin to improve things. Changing locations presents us with some new needs including (most likely) an increase in rent, a trailer, and a projection screen (among other things). These things aren’t cheap, of course, but well worth it if it helps us better communicate God’s grace to those who are unaware of it.

Please continue to give (and even increase your giving, if you are able), so that Canyon Church can be even more effective at making a real tangible difference in our area. To give online (one-time or regular and automated) you can do so through our website (www.canyon-cc.com) or click here. It’s really simple as well as extremely safe and secure (it’s how I give most of the time).

See ya’ at the park! I’m looking forward to getting to know many of you better.

Mel

Source: http://canyonchurch.blogspot.com/2010/07/where-does-money-go.html

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I get some interesting things in my mail, in amongst all the spam. The latest was an email from RODE mics announcing a promotion this August; buy one of their qualifying mics (from a qualifying distributor) and get a Vicoustic Flexi Screen Lite for $1 (AUD) [that's $.90 USD]. Qualifying mics are:

NT1000 – Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone $329

NT2-A – Multi-Pattern Studio Condenser Microphone $399

NT2000 – Variable Pattern Studio Condenser Microphone $599

NTK – Large-Diaphragm Condenser Studio Microphone $529

K2 – Variable Pattern Studio Tube Condenser Microphone $699

Classic II $2099

Cool.

But what’s a Vicoustic Flexi Screen Lite?

It appears to be an isolation panel for vocal recording, which might be useful for those who occasionally do voice-over work at home; better than hanging up a comforter. But finding information about them proved rather difficult; B & H doesn’t carry them, and neither does any other US vendor that I can see. I have found some overseas sites that reference it, and I also found the Vicoustic site; though it took me a while to find the product page; and it didn’t give me much more info!

I did find on the Vicoustic site that RODE is now their US (and Australian) distributor, so maybe someone here will have them soon.

Also unclear is whether it includes the mounting arm for attaching to a tripod like the one seen in the photograph.

RODE Microphones: Vicoustic Registration
Vicoustic: Flexi Screen Lite
Macmusic: Vicoustic Flexi Screen Lite

Source: http://notesonvideo.blogspot.com/2010/07/rode-promotion-1-vicoustic-flexi-screen.html

The show relaunched in April 2006 with a new graphics package, and a new set with floating large rear projection screens that allow the anchors to virtually “talk” to correspondents in live feeds. Pia Guanio hosts the showbiz news …

Source: http://jvstream.blogspot.com/2010/07/jvstream-24-oras-july-31-2010-episode.html

The other day I was walking through the mall dressed in my “official” clerical garb. While I was at the kiosk for the cell phone people, another customer was treating me with a noticeable deference and even with good humor.

As I walked out of the mall, I saw a group of young people. One of them made eye contact with me but it was not a friendly connection. His t-shirt had a red circle and slash over a cross under the caption “no bad religion.” I wanted to stop and ask about the shirt. After all, if I am going to wear the symbol of the churches ordained ministry in public, I had better be able to take the brickbats as well as the bouquets.

My hunch is that if the two of us could compare our lists of what constituted “bad religion”, they’d be more alike than different. My list would start with violence and persecution perpetrated in God’s name. I would also add the many examples of hatred that some justify on religious grounds. I also think that “bad religion” is religion that is uncritical or reactive or which puts institutional life ahead of people’s well-being. Bad religion pits science and faith against one another as if they are enemies. Religion that doesn’t drive us to leave a world better than how we found it is to me “bad religion”.

But we did not have that conversation. As a public representative of an old religious tradition, I have to say that I did not do a good job asking the question because he all would say to me is “no bad religion, man!” Whatever.

I’ll bet that the reason the young man refused to engage me was the same reason that the guy at the kiosk was so nice. They both made certain assumptions about me, what I believed, and what I represent based on the total package they saw: a fifty-ish white guy wearing a black clerical collar. It’s not a uniform, it’s a projection screen.

But it’s not just religious professional in funny clothes who get misunderstood. I think that the very idea of having religious faith can lead to misunderstanding. Take Mary Magdalene for example. Many churches recently celebrated her feast day. Mary of Magdala is perhaps the patron saint of projection and misunderstanding!

Depending on what books you read or films you see, Mary Magdalene was a person healed by Jesus, a prostitute who may or may not have repented, who may or may not have washed Jesus’
feet with her hair, and who may have been Jesus’ friend, companion, disciple, successor, lover, wife or mother of his children. Next to Jesus himself, it is hard to imagine a person on whom we have directed so many of our dreams, fears, hopes and hurts.

The only thing we know for sure is that she was a follower of Jesus, she was healed of some infirmity by him, and that she was one of the women who witnessed his crucifixion and knew
where he was buried. We know from the Gospel of John that she went to the empty tomb and that she was the one who took the news of Jesus’ resurrection to the eleven remaining
apostles.

History, popular culture and even the Church has deeply misunderstood Mary. They have either tried to denigrate her witness or adapt it for their own purpose. Mary teaches us that the important thing is not that we understand God so much as discovering how deeply God understands us. We may all be as misunderstood as she was, but at the moment of moments, at the border of life and death, Christ knew and understood Mary. If Mary knew nothing else except that God knew her to deepest core and was loved, then nothing else matters.

There are lots of theories on why Mary Magdalene is so misunderstood, some of which border on the conspiratorial, but if the most important part of her story is that God knows and loves us, Mary also teaches us that to live a life of faith is to be misunderstood.

To practice peace in a world that values power is to be misunderstood. To seek to serve the poor in a world that values wealth will create misunderstanding. Advocating for people who have no voice, no vote, and no position in society is not comprehensible to many in our world. Bringing care for the sick even if is not profitable and to demand that society remembers the forgotten often invites labeling and name-calling. When a person of faith places love as the highest value, and lifts up the dignity of even the lowliest among us, other people will misunderstand.

Frankly, there are days when I don’t understand the life of faith that even I have chosen to live. We human beings are such imperfect practitioners of the spiritual life, and yet we are drawn to grow and know more. We are drawn to create. We seek love and we crave to be known. We are called to change. Mary Magdalene reminds us of the truth of the old Franciscan prayer where we seek “not to be understood as to understand” that God knows us and loves us right down to our very core.

A version of this appeared today on the religion page of the Morning Call of Allentown, PA. That was a version of my homily on the feast of Mary of Magdala. I wrote this before Pope Benedict XVI “unfriended” Mary Magdalene.

Source: http://andrewplus.blogspot.com/2010/07/prepare-to-be-misunderstood.html

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Lab dan Perangkat Komputer yang ada di SMK TI / SMA ditujukan untuk mendukung proses belajar mengajar seluruh mata diklat terutama mata diklat produktif, kegiatan belajar diluar kelas dan program ekskul. Waka Kurikulum, Ketua Program Keahlian, guru-guru mata diklat dan pembimbing ekskul harus melakukan koordinasi erat dengan Kepala Lab Komputer agar seluruh kebutuhan proses belajar di sekolah dapat didukung maksimal oleh Lab & Perangkat Komputer.

Spesifikasi Lab & Perangkat Komputer

1. Lab 1 Bawah (Internet & Aplikasi)
a. Jumlah PC: 15 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Pentium 4
c. Internet: Ya

2. Lab 2 Bawah (Multimedia)
a. Jumlah PC: 15 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Dual Core, Firewire, DVD R/W (1 unit PC)
c. Internet: Tidak

3. Lab 3 Atas (Internet & Aplikasi)
a. Jumlah PC: 15 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Celeron
c. Internet: Ya

4. Lab 4 Atas (khusus TKJ)
a. Jumlah PC: 10 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Celeron
c. Internet: Tidak

5. Perpustakaan Online
a. Jumlah PC: 2 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Celeron
c. Internet: Ya

6. Laptop/Notebook
a. Jumlah: 2 unit (Toshiba & Lenovo)
b. Spesifikasi: Intel Core 2 Duo, DVD R/W
c. Internet: Ya/WiFi
d. Kegunaan: Pemakaian bebas oleh para pengajar & siswa

7. LCD Projector
a. Jumlah: 3 unit (BenQ, Acer, Sanyo)
b. Spesifikasi: Standard
c. Kelengkapan: 2 unit portable screen
d. Kegunaan: Pemakaian bebas untuk para pengajar dan siswa

8. Kamera Video
a. Jumlah: 2 unit
b. Spesifikasi: 1 Sony Handycam dan 1 Sony MD10000 3CCD
c. Kegunaan: Pemakaian belajar di kelas & ekskul

9. Kamera Foto Digital
a. Jumlah: 1 unit
b. Spesifikasi: Sony Cybershot 7MP
c. Kegunaan: Pemakaian belajar di kelas & ekskul

Cara Pemakaian/Peminjaman

- Seluruh lab dan perangkat komputer dapat dipakai oleh para pengajar dan siswa untuk mendukung proses belajar tanpa dipungut biaya.

- Lab dan Perangkat Komputer berada dalam tanggung jawab Kepala Lab. Para pengajar yang ingin menggunakan dapat menghubungi Kepala Lab dan menjadwalkan pemakaian. Jika ada kerusakan atau system error, segera dilaporkan agar dapat diperbaiki secepatnya.

- Bagi pengajar yang ingin meng-install program aplikasi bagi pelajaran masing-masing, dapat menghubungi Kepala Lab untuk dibantu instalasi di lab yang diperlukan.

- Seluruh lab komputer dilindungi oleh sistem Deep Freeze sehingga siswa tidak dapat menyimpan/save apapun kedalam PC. Siswa disarankan menyimpan semua file mereka dalam portable storage (flashdisk, dll).

- Headset tersedia jika diminta, hubungi Kepala Lab untuk meminjam headset bagi para siswa yang praktek.

- Lab Bebas disediakan sesuai jadwal yang akan ditentukan kemudian. Para pengajar dan siswa dapat menggunakan fasilitas ini sesuai jadwal, ataupun jika dibutuhkan dengan izin Kepala Lab.

- Lab Komputer dibuka sejak 07.15 hingga 21.00 WITA setiap hari sekolah. Hari libur atau hari besar dapat dibuka atas izin Kepala Lab dan dengan syarat ada pengajar yang bertanggungjawab.

- Printer & scanner bisa dibawa ke Lab Komputer bila diperlukan. Hubungi Kepala Lab untuk mengkonsultasikan kebutuhan yang diperlukan.

Jaringan Hotspot Sekolah

- Jaringan hotspot (WiFi) tersedia di seluruh area sekolah secara non-stop 24 jam. Akses menggunakan password yang diganti secara reguler. Mintalah password kepada Kepala Lab.

- Akses Internet sekolah memakai 2 line Internet broadband dari Telkom Speedy yang secara teoritis mampu mencapai kecepatan 2 x 1 Mbps. Namun pada keadaan penggunaan jaringan yang sangat padat, maka kecepatan dapat menurun drastis, hubungi Kepala Lab atau para Asisten Lab jika anda mendapat masalah dengan jaringan Internet.

- Jaringan Hotspot dapat diakses dari laptop dan alat komunikasi lain seperti ponsel yang memiliki fitur WiFi. Hubungi para Asisten Lab untuk mendapatkan setting konfigurasi jaringan sekolah.

Website Resmi Sekolah

- Website resmi sekolah di Internet beralamat di www.smapgri3.net
- Website ini berisi segala informasi tentang/seputar sekolah yang tersedia online.

- Para pengajar dan siswa sangat diharapkan ikut mengisi berita, cerita dan informasi lain di website ini, hubungi Kepala Lab untuk mendapatkan hak akses dan bantuan cara akses dan mengisi informasi.

- Seluruh pengajar dan siswa juga didorong untuk mendaftar di milis SMK TI / SMA di Googlegroups dan di page Facebook. Ikuti petunjuk/link di situs resmi sekolah.

Cyber Learning System (in progress)

Sekolah menyediakan suatu sistem online terpadu untuk mendukung proses belajar mengajar di sekolah. Program ini pada tahap awal ditujukan untuk:

- Menyediakan bahan ajar digital bagi siswa yang bisa diakses cepat dan mudah melalui server lokal sekolah atau Internet.

- Mendorong para pengajar untuk memiliki email pribadi dan account Facebook untuk sarana komunikasi. Pengumuman dan informasi dari sekolah ke pengajar dan siswa secara bertahap akan dilakukan secara digital (email, posting Facebook, posting di milis, SMS, dll).

- Mendorong para pengajar untuk mampu mencari, menyediakan dan meng-upload bahan ajar (file apa saja, ebook, PDF, dll) ke server lokal atau Internet agar bisa diakses oleh seluruh siswa.

- Mendorong para pengajar untuk menyiapkan bahan presentasi di kelas (fokus pada penggunaan Microsoft PowerPoint) dan melakukan presentasi digital dalam kelas (menggunakan LCD projector, laptop/PC).

- Menyediakan forum interaktif untuk berkomunikasi (pengumuman, pengumpulan tugas, diskusi, dll) baik di Internet (seperti milis, forum online, Facebook, dll) maupun server lokal. Lihat info dan link lengkap di website resmi sekolah.

- Memulai secara bertahap pengajaran kelas secara online (seperti pengumpulan tugas, penyelenggaraan ulangan online tanpa kertas, dll) melalui server lokal atau Internet (menggunakan Moodle).

- Seluruh penyelenggaraan sistem ini, pemeliharaan server lokal dan Internet, sosialisasi dan pelatihan pengajar & siswa ditangani oleh tim yang ditunjuk khusus.

- Silahkan akses CLS (Cyber Learning System) SMK TI Airlangga versi online di www.smapgri3.net (masih dalam tahap pengembangan).

Pengawasan Pemakaian

- Demi keamanan dan kenyamanan semua pihak dalam menggunakan semua fasilitas diatas, mohon keasadaran agar dapat sama-sama memelihara dan menggunakan semua perangkat secara baik dan bertanggungjawab.

- Jika ada penyalahgunaan (seperti akses pornografi melalui Internet) baik oleh siswa maupun para pengajar, mohon dilaporkan ke Kepala Lab untuk diberikan teguran.

Source: http://yatna-2010.blogspot.com/2010/07/fasilitas-komputer-dan-jaringan-cyber.html

For most of July we taught a videojournalism workshop in Perpignan, France, for eighteen American students. It was part of a study-abroad program co-sponsored by the Institute for Education in International Media (ieiMedia) and San Francisco State University.

Here are a few tips we can pass along, based on common student errors and problems we encountered.

A. Shooting Suggestions

1. Use the tripod whenever possible. Shaky camera work is hard to watch and screams “amateur.”

2. Avoid zooms, pans and tilts. The top pros almost never use them, for good reason. They’re distracting, tough to edit, and the sign of a novice.

3. Focus manually when shooting close-ups. On autofocus, the camera often locks in on something that is in the background.

4. Take lots of reverse shots of subjects’ faces as they carry out their activities. If you need to, hold the camera at arm’s length, in front of the subject, and record at least 10 seconds of video.

5. Also shoot across the subject’s shoulder, from their perspective, to see what he or she is seeing.

6. Shoot overalls. If the subject of the story is church bells, shoot not only inside and outside the church, but also position the camera on a hill near the town where you can still see the church, to let the viewer understand how the sound travels over the entire region.

7. If the subject talks about the past, ask if they have old photos from that time that you can use in b-roll or cutaway shots.

8. When using a simultaneous translator or interpreter, make sure they provide word-for-word English versions of whatever the subject says, and doesn’t substitute the third-person or add “he said.” If the subject says, “I went to the store…” then make sure the translator says, “I went to the store…” (and not, “He said he went to the store.”) Make sure you aren’t just capturing the translator’s interpretation and summary of the dialogue instead of what actually was said. If the translator’s voice is crystal clear, you can use it in the final story, over the actual subject’s voice. Otherwise you will need to dub in a new voice or use subtitles.

9. When possible, avoid subtitles and on-screen narrative text. People don’t like to read movies.

10. Sometimes you can capture footage on a Flip or other small camera that is not super high quality but might be better than no footage at all.

Audio suggestions

1. What you hear on the audio track you need to see on the video track, and what you see you need to hear about. When someone says something in the story, viewers want to observe what is happening. If viewers are watching something, they want to hear about and understand what they are watching. Few video images are simple and obvious enough that they don’t need supporting dialogue or voiceover. This simple principle of correlating what you see and hear is very difficult to carry out. Often students had an interview section about an element of the story but no video to accompany it. Or they did not have enough video footage to go with extensive audio passages.

2. Here is where the wireless mic can come in handy. By wiring your subject, you can overhear what they say to everyone around them, as well as observe with the video camera what they doing at the same time. One student did a story about the problems of being an English speaker and playing on a French sports team. Viewers heard only the players talking about the difficulties. The audience never got to hear an actual dialogue demonstrating the problem. Wiring a coach during practice would have let the viewer hear the challenges of communicating across the two languages, and viewers could draw their own conclusions.

Editing  suggestions

1. You need to create a road map of what steps to take once you have collected your material — i.e. what to do first, second and third.

2. We found that by having students transcribe all their interviews (a task they detest) and also all the spoken audio collected during candid moments (a task they overlooked), they could more easily and quickly create a paper script.

3. With a paper script, students could see if they needed to write voiceover to provide information missing from interviews or dialogue. With more time, they could have gone back and done more interviewing to fill in the missing pieces, but under their tight deadline restrictions, recording a VO with the missing information became the best alternative.

4. We also had them watch all the interviews as they listened to the spoken “natural sound.” How people say things can be as interesting as what they say. Voice inflection does not show up on the paper edit.

5. We had the students lay down the audio track (interview and spoken audio nat sound) before they started to add their visual sequences. They essentially produced a radio story before they turned it into a video story. This approach assured that the story flowed and made sense.

(Of course, this is not the only way to structure the process. We’re interested in hearing about approaches others find effective and efficient.)

Storytelling suggestions

In the workshop, the greatest problem was the students’ inability to recognize the theme and/or nut graph of their video story – for instance, why this pastry chef was featured and not the one down the block.

Also, they had problems sticking to the central theme once they had identified it. They had a tendency to throw in all the cool shots and off-the-wall interview comments rather than stick to the heart and soul of their mini doc.

Though the students didn’t always use it, we found the following approach is helpful in establishing a theme:

a. Write a title/theme before you shoot;
b. Rewrite the title/theme after you shoot;
c. Rewrite the title/theme after you draft a script;
d. Rewrite the title/theme after you edit.

In the end, see if all your images and sound conform to your title/theme and original agenda.

Here are some examples of students’ work, below. (You can watch more here.)

Keeping up with Snails

A look at an escargot farm in Estoher, France, just outside of Perpignan.

Saving the Strays

Saint-Nazaire, France resident Helen Ferrieux takes care of stray cats in her village.

Source: http://kobrechannel.blogspot.com/2010/07/lessons-from-perpignan-what-we-learned.html

Cyber Zed Shed wants your 20-min. presentation proposal for ACRL National in Philly.
Deadline Nov 1. http://j.mp/acrlczs

Are you a tech savvy librarian using new technologies in innovative ways? Adapting existing technologies to reach user needs? Here is an opportunity to share your innovations with your colleagues, library administrators, and others at ACRL 2011. The ACRL 2011 Cyber Zed Shed Committee is looking for proposals that document technology-related innovations in every area of the library.

Whether you are teaching in a classroom; answering questions from patrons; acquiring, cataloging, processing or preserving materials; or providing other services, we’re interested. We invite you to submit your most innovative proposals to help us make Philadelphia the site of a truly groundbreaking conference.

Cyber Zed Shed presentations are 20 minutes, with 15 minutes to present a demonstration, and five additional minutes for audience Q&A. Presentations should document technology-related innovations in academic and research libraries. A computer, data projector, screen, microphone, and stage will be provided in the Cyber Zed Shed theater. You will be responsible for bringing all other equipment required for your demonstration, except as agreed to in advance.

The deadline for submission is November 1, 2010.

Questions about Cyber Zed Shed submissions should be directed to:
Kenley Neufeld, Santa Barbara City College, kenleyneufeld@gmail.com
Emily Rimland, Pennsylvania State University, erimland@psu.edu

Source: http://cmcig.blogspot.com/2010/07/acrl-cyber-zed-shed.html