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HILLgroup Events 2008-2009 Past Events: "Meetings, Bloody Meetings""Meetings, Bloody Meetings is probably the most widely seen management training video of all time. Millions of managers around the world have watched it and absorbed its lessons, and millions more continue to do so on a regular basis. The accompanying video stars John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) as the Production Director of a small manufacturing company. He is thoroughly inefficient at chairing meetings. In fact, the only real sleep he gets is at meetings – which he needs because he spends all night catching up on the work he could have done at the office had his meetings been more efficient. One night he dreams he is hauled up before a court for the negligent conduct of meetings. In the dream, the judge demonstrates how the techniques, disciplines and logic of running a meeting are very similar to those of conducting a court case. Having seen the evidence of Cleese's last few meetings, the court finds him guilty of all five counts: failing to prepare himself, failing to inform others, failing to plan the agenda, failing to control the discussion and failing to record the decisions. The video is split into five clearly definable stages, each illustrating one of the key points. John Cleese's character sees how the procedures of a court, for all its trappings of ceremony, pomp and circumstance, are built on the same basis of logic and common sense as a properly organized meeting. Participants in this workshop will:
"What's So Humane about Digital Humanities?" Come to a panel presentation and discussion session led by Martine Guyot-Bender, Angel David Nieves and Brent Rodriguez Plate on Wednesday, November 5th at noon in the Backus House. They will offer three different perspectives on the use of digital resources in support of teaching and scholarship in the humanities:
 The Net Generation as Harbingers of Change: Implications for Higher Education October 8th, 4:15 pm Hamilton College, Clinton New York Science Center-Kennedy Auditorium (G027) Campus Map The Net Generation seems inseparable from technology, text messaging, Googling, IMing, and playing games while listening to iPods. Although technology may be what we notice first, there are much deeper changes underneath, such as the emergence of a participatory culture, where amateurs can be experts, and material is repurposed, remixed, rated and shared instantly, worldwide. Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, collaboration, learning and scholarship—all reshaping the educational landscape. This session goes behind the technology to the deeper changes that challenge our colleges and universities. Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, is also an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. Oblinger serves on a variety of boards including the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and chairs the National Visiting Committee for NSF's National Science Digital Library project. A frequent keynote speaker and prolific author, Oblinger is also the co-author the award winning book What Business Wants from Higher Education. Sponsored by HILLgroup, Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and Africana Studies. It is made possible by funds from the NITLE's IIF Grant to the Moving Images Collaborative, the Africana Studies Program and Hamilton's Dean of Faculty. View Diana Oblinger's PowerPoint presentation at http://academics.hamilton.edu/Oblinger/DianaOblinger.htm New Faculty Orientation HILLgroup representatives met with New Faculty on Thursday, August 21st in the new Oral Communication Center to raise awareness of course support services available to them. Campus Life Open House
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