#1 Initiative of Brown Bag Seminar

Initiative
The purpose of the brown bag seminar is to offer informal presentations of interest to the COE community. The meetings will provide opportunities to discuss new/on-going projects, resources or solutions, and to share ideas and insights gained at conferences and workshops. The length of a seminar would be 30 minutes, easier to steal time from our tight schedules and make the seminar feasible.

Requesting your participation
We hope the seminar will start in the first week of April 2010 and will have two seminar sessions by the end of Spring 2010 semester. We will have some adjustments after that then we plan to run a bi-weekly or monthly schedule in Fall 2010. We would like to request your participation. If you are interested in taking part of it (either a presenter or an audience), please fill out a brief survey that will help the seminar team to organize the event effectively. Your information will be kept confidential.

Intent of Participation (Please click the link on left then it will pop out a survey window)

Blogging
This seminar is using blogging to communicate with the interested audience. It provides two main functions. First, the seminar schedule and content of the presentation (e.g. powerpoints, videos etc.) will be available on the blog for keeping the audience updated. Second, discussion and collaboration between the presenters and the audience are supported by this web platform. For example, Presenter A could share her/his presentation outlines on one of the posts and others could provide additional ideas or express interests of collaboration by writing some comments on the specific post.

We hope you will enjoy COE becoming a more sharing and collaborative community and are looking forward to seeing you in the Brown Bag Seminar.