Between the end of the 3-4:30 breakout sessions and the screening of Get Lamp (d. Jason Scott, 2010) at 6pm in 107 Hall of Languages, you have some free time to eat & drink with your new-found THATCamp buddies and potential collaborators. Here are some nearby walkable options:

Strong Hearts Cafe
Marshall Square Mall (720 University Ave)
Vegan soups, salads, and sandwiches. Delicious vegan shakes.

Cafe Kubal
Marshall Square Mall (on University Ave)
Coffee & tea, sandwiches, pastries & such. Also, it’s inside a thrift store.

Faegan’s Pub
734 S Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210
It’s a pub. Pub food & lots of beers.

Sitrus on the Hill
(inside the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center)
This is a hotel bar, but you can also order food. Lots of room for a bigger group.

Varsity Pizza
802 S Crouse Ave
Pizza, sandwiches, pitchers of beer. Affordable and dripping with Orange Pride.

There are, of course, other options. If any SU people want to recommend places in the comments (or use the area to organize), I’ll add them to the map.

You can find all of these on this Google Map: THATCamp CNY Food & Drink Options.

In thinking about the Creative Uses of Zotero discussion I proposed, I realized it might be worthwhile to have an informal intro session for people who are new users first. So, I’m proposing a quick and dirty Zotero workshop. Attendees should bring a laptop computer and questions. Hopefully we can schedule this in advance of the other session in order that attendees can brainstorm and develop their newly-learned Zotero skills.

I’m an avid user of Zotero, and an alumnus of a regional Zotero train-the-trainer session we held at SU last year, so I know I’m only scratching the surface. I’d love to have others willing to join me on the teaching side of things in this session.

As you may have seen on the tentative schedule, we are planning to have a session of Dork Shorts concurrent with our lunch session on Friday. What are Dork Shorts?

Dork shorts, known in some corners as “lightning talks,” are brief (2-minute or 3-minute) presentations in which attendees discuss current or upcoming projects, demonstrate new tools, or call for collaborators. Like most of THATCamp, Dork Shorts are meant to be as informal as possible… Dork Shorts let you learn a lot in a little bit of time.

Dork shorts will also allow us to get to know each others’ interests quickly. If you would like to present to the whole group on a THATCamp-y project, tool, or idea you have, we’d love to hear from you. No need to prepare an elaborate presentation, but you’ll have a computer and projector and can show a web page or a slideshow– just remember: you’ve only got 3 minutes.

We’ll have a sign-up sheet for Dork Shorts at registration Friday morning, but feel free to chime in in the comments to this post if you already know you want to participate.

Howdy Campers! We are looking forward to seeing you in Syracuse on Friday. Everything will take place at Bird Library, on the campus of Syracuse University. Our central meeting room will be the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, located on the first floor of the building near the University Place entrance. (If you requested parking, we’ll be in touch shortly with details.)

As THATCamp approaches, we wanted to give you some details about events this weekend. Our first order of business will be to collectively hammer out a schedule for Friday and Saturday. We will begin gathering at 8:30am on Friday, and start setting the schedule at 9:30, with a goal of first sessions beginning at 10:00am. Below is a tentative schedule for how each day will be structured.

Finally, please continue to submit, and comment on, session proposals. When we meet Friday morning, we’ll be taking these proposals and trying to wrangle them into a schedule.

I’m very interested in how people research, read, and write together, and I”m also an avid user of Zotero. I’m proposing a session where Zotero users (both new & old) talk about ways to use the tool to do more than just collect and manage citations.

This would include strategies for using Zotero in writing and collaboration, approaches to using Zotero in the classroom for projects and for syllabi, practical tips and tricks for reading & note-taking, and ways of visualizing, understanding, and enhancing Zotero libraries. I’d also like to discuss the plugins that extend Zotero and, time permitting, provide a brief introduction to how one may write a Zotero translator to import citations from a source  not currently supported by the tool.

Hello prospective campers! We’re in the thick of planning for THATCamp CNY 2014– making arrangements, placing orders, coming up with proposed sessions. We’re excited to see registrants from so many CNY institutions!

If you intend to join us, please register soon. To guarantee that you’ll receive a t-shirt in your preferred size, please register by the end of the day on Thursday, March 27th. The absolute final registration date is April 3, so we can make sure to have enough food and coffee to fuel our discussions.

If you’ve already registered for THATCamp CNY 2014, you may propose session topics on the Propose Page. If you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for? Go to the Register page and enter your information, you’ll soon receive a message with more details.

Hello Campers! Registration is officially open for THATCamp CNY 2014. Fill out the form located on the registration page, and we’ll be in touch with more details. Please note that there is no charge for registration, thanks to support from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SU Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Syracuse University Libraries.

The event will take place Friday April 11 (9:00am – 4:30pm) and Saturday April 11 (9:00am – 12:00pm).  We’ll provide breakfast, lunch, and coffee. You bring curiosity, some energy, and maybe a laptop, and we’ll see what we can do.

If you’re interested apply now; then feel free to propose a session on the THATCamp CNY 2014 site. As the event approaches we’ll remind folks to propose sessions. Sessions can be on any topic relevant to the humanities and technology. Final determination of sessions (what gets discussed—text analysis, teaching with technology, maps and cultural analysis, whatever!) will happen on the morning of the event, based on the interest of folks assembled.