The WIDE World Web

This week @ WIDE (Bill H-D edition)

May 22, 2009 - by Bill Hart-Davidson, from the blogs Billblog IV, WIDE World Web

One question we sometimes get around here is what it is like to run a research center. So...I thought I'd try to post weekly recaps of activity around here to create a record. I'm going to stick to the highlights, of course, and this is just my p.o.v. Maybe Jeff, Mike, Jim, Matt, Stacey, Anne, Doug, or Katie (just to name a few of my colleagues around here) will chime in as well!

This week @ WIDE we...

• helped to finalize an NSF proposal wherin Bill & Mike are included among the research team; Mark Zachry & Clay Spinuzzi are PIs; the project is for the Virtual Organizations as Sociotechincal Systems (VOSS) program and is titled "Virtual and Material Dimensions of Distributed Knowledge Work"
• sent our intrepid Archive 2.0 research team off to Israel to conduct community-centered design research for our NEH project "Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection."
• met with the Tier I Assessment project team to discuss final preparations for the Phase 2 Instructor-Produced Materials analysis data set; we hope to kick of the analysis of this data next week
• met with the CAL creativity center project team and a real client, Elder Law of Michigan, to conduct a contextual inquiry interview about the "project proposal process; we produced a great set of UI changes! Next up for that project: a CI interview on "project review by CC staff"
• made some great progress on the UI for INK, our multiplayer online writing game environment
• met with the nice folks at RedHead Design Studios in Lansing to follow up on the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education CMS project meeting we had last week.
  
• saw two provocative and insightful blog posts by Jeff, one on "Reinventing the Professional Writing Major" and one on "We are All Digital Humanists Now"
• heard that Martine Rife will be among the editors of a new feature on Intellectual Property issues that will appear regularly in the National Council of Teachers' of English "NCTE InBox" e-newsletter
• started aggregating tweets related to wide on our website using the hashtag #msuwide