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Aug. 2 – 4, 2023: Invitation to SIDLIT 2023 with Discounts

 

By Cheryl Zelle, Graduate Student, Kansas State University

 

This SIDLIT 2023 logo includes the conference theme: “Getting… Staying… Building the future…TOGETHER”!

Faculty and staff interested in online learning, educational technology, and instructional design are invited to attend the Summer Institute on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (SIDLIT) Wednesday, August 2 at K-State Olathe and Thursday-Friday August 3-4 at Johnson County Community College. The conference is hybrid, so virtual participation is also available for all sessions.

Thanks to the sponsorship support of the K-State Olathe and Salina Aerospace and Technology campuses, registration for the conference in person is reduced to $50 and virtual participation is FREE! You can find the registration links and discount codes below.

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Nov. 28: Intro to ETDR Templates

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made templates available (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting and have navigable documents.

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 28. 

 

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Sept. 26: Intro to ETDR Templates

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting.

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26.    

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Aug. 29: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting.

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 29.    

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Aug. 5: LIWC22 for Computational Text Analysis

LIWC“Using LIWC-22 for Computational Linguistic Analysis” will be presented from 1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 5, via Zoom. (Link will not be live until the event.)

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) tool enables users to conduct computational linguistic analyses on single texts, collections of texts, and text corpora, in order to better understand the latent data.

 

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July 29: Intro to Microsoft Visio Professional

An introductory training for Microsoft Visio Professional is scheduled 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 29, on Zoom(Session is not live until the scheduled time.)

 

About Microsoft Visio Professional 

Microsoft Visio Pro is a common diagramming tool that enables the creation of vector graphics.

Some common examples include the following:

  • Flowcharts to describe work or research processes
  • Basic diagrams
  • BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) diagrams (with built-in validation based on rule sets)
  • Database systems
  • Floor plans
  • Network designs
  • Data-created visuals (with uploaded Excel spreadsheets used in Visio templates from MS Visio Online and/or the Excel backstage)
  • Automapping of websites to three levels
  • And more

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July 25: Getting Started w/ ETDRs

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has shared templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting (and with effective navigation).

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, July 25.    

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July 15: Intro to NVivo

NVIVOAn “Intro to NVivo” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, for all faculty, graduate students, and staff who may be using this qualitative (and mixed methods, multimethods) data analysis tool.  This session will occur on Zoom.

This presentation, which covers NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo (newest) basics, will address the following:

  • The basic parts of the NVivo interface
  • How to start and structure a research project (including a team project)
  • How to set up a project around a base language (Chinese/PRC, English/US, English/UK, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese/Brazil, and Spanish)
  • How to ingest various multimedia file types (and curate heterogeneous and semi-structured digital data and digitized contents)
  • How to ingest some social media contents
  • How to begin manual and/or automated coding various media file types
  • How to run data queries in the tool and analyze resulting data visualizations (word clouds, word trees, matrices, geographical maps, bar charts, and others)
  • How to back up the .nvp / .nvpx project file

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July 1: Intro to Adobe Photoshop


Are you a graduate student who uses digital imagery (photos, data visualizations, and others) in a master’s thesis, master’s report, or doctoral dissertation (in an ETDR application)? Are you a faculty or staff member who integrates photographs or digital diagrams into slideshows, an imageset, an animation, or videos?

Join this “Intro to Adobe Photoshop” on July 1, from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. This session introduces Adobe Photoshop as the leading software for editing and creating raster images (although it can output vector ones, too). This session will introduce the general graphical user interface (GUI) for this software. Then, it covers some basic uses and shows some walk-throughs of work sequences.

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June 27: Getting started w/ ETDR templates

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting.

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, June 27.    

ETDR in LaTeX
This visual shows the preamble of the LaTeX ETDR to the left and the first page of the ETDR to the right.

 

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