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  • Announcing recruitment for BotCamp 2009
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    Join BotCamp in Chapel Hill! Fun, interactive learning BotCamp uses technologies like Facebook, Flickr, and blogs to learn about the natural world and collaborate with others. Spend a weekend in Chapel Hill! Join other area college students during two all expenses paid on-campus sessions in Chapel Hill.  During these two sessions you will: Meet and make connections with experts from the UNC Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden and School of Information and Library Science. Learn how to identify and describe plants that are in your back yard. Experience firsthand the type of research botanists conduct. Learn about careers in botanical science Receive a certificate from the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Receive a $150 stipend for your time and have all your expenses paid. The program consists of two on-campus sessions: June 19th July 24th & 25th  (hotel in Chapel Hill provided for the night of the 24th) If you are interested please complete this form.   If you have any questions about the program, please let us know!... Read More >
  • Bot 2.0 at DC2008
    from Bot 2.0 by dnw
    Bot 2.0 team members Dr. Jane Greenberg and Michael Shoffner attended the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2008) in Berlin, Germany.  Michael presented a poster on the Bot 2.0 and BotCamp project entitled, Web 2.0 Semantic Systems: Collaborative Learning in Science: The poster is also available as a PDF on the DC2008 conference site.... Read More >
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  • Bot 2.0 attends 2008 CCLI Conference
    from Bot 2.0 by dnw
    Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl Term professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and principal investigator of the BOT 2.0 program, attended the 2008 Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) conference in Washington D.C. Dr. Greenberg presented a poster on Bot 2.0 at the conference covering an overview of the program, participants, and initial research findings. (click on image for larger version)... Read More >
  • BotCamp Photos!
    from Bot 2.0 by dnw
    Photos from of first BotCamp group visiting campus at UNC are available on the Bot 2.0 Flickr page.... Read More >
  • Campers use Web 2.0 technology to study botany
    from Bot 2.0 by dnw
    From UNC School of Information and Library Science News Release:Fourteen students from the Triangle community participated in the first BotCamp on July 31 through Aug. 2. BotCamp is part of BOT 2.0, an innovative program featuring a curriculum that weaves together four key themes – botany, environmental conservation, the use of social technologies and metadata literacy. Using digital cameras and camera phones to capture images of plants and trees in the field, the enthusiastic campers downloaded them to Web 2.0 social computing technologies such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and blogs. In the classroom, they focused on using metadata tagging for classification of each image. “Researchers have demonstrated that students learn more effectively when they are actively engaged in the learning process and self evaluation,” said Dr. Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl Term professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and principal investigator of the BOT 2.0 program.“BOT 2.0 applies this active learning approach using Web 2.0 social computing technologies to increase student engagement in botanical science and to address known recruitment and retention challenges.” Students with nontraditional backgrounds from Alamance Community College, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University and UNC at Chapel Hill were selected for the camp. The camp included outings to the UNC Arboretum, the NC Botanical Gardens, the Herbarium, Mason Farms and other natural surroundings with botanical experts, as well as information management and technology sessions at SILS. BotCampers and camp counselors from left to right, Curtis Williams; Dr. Jane Greenberg, SILS faculty, and BOT 2.0 PI; Eunisa Simone Lindsey; David Woodbury, SILS student; Dr. Alan Weakley, Botanical Garden Herbarium curator; Destiny Harris;Komi Segno Messan; Candace Farrish; Tosha Roberts; Andeliene Croce (in tree); Tracy Anderson (in tree); Morgan Robinson; Jacob Kramer-Duffield, SILS student; Heather Wolff; Jennifer Kellie Walters; Dr. Evelyn Daniel, SILS associate dean for academic affairs, and BOT 2.0 co-PI; and Domonique Bulls. Photo by Dr. Brian Sturm. BOT 2.0 is a collaborative effort between the Metadata Research Center at SILS the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the UNC Herbarium, the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Information Technology Services. It is a two year program funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation and it is led by Greenberg, and Alan Weakley, curator of the UNC Herbarium, a department of the NC Botanical Garden. For more information about BOT 2.0, access the Metadata Research Center Web site.... Read More >
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