ScienceOnline09 - workshops

Most sessions (see the Program) at ScienceOnline09 are supposed to be highly interactive - in the spirit of an Unconference, based on the idea that:

The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on stage.

But, there will be a few exceptions. First, there will be several quick demos on Sunday morning.

But also, four of the sessions are meant to be more in a workshop mode, where we expect that the people on stage will actually have greater expertise than people in the audience and that the reason people will choose to attend these sessions will be to learn the skills they do not yet possess. But the audience should prepare nonetheless, at least by helping the session leaders by editing the session wiki-pages and adding questions and ideas. These sessions are:

Blogging101 - how to get started:

This session will be moderated by Pal,MD:

You have heard about blogs, perhaps read some blogs, have spent a whole day yesterday hearing about how great blogs are, so now you have finally decided to try to write one yourself. Bring your laptop and we'll help you, step-by-step, start your own Wordpress.com blog during this session.

Blogging102 - how to make your blog better:

This session is moderated by Roger Harris:

You have been blogging for a while, but want to make it better - we'll help you choose and install applications and widgets, help you make your blog look better, be more functional and, hopefully, more popular.

What does it take to make your blog better?

Tell me what you want to know. Let's get semantics out of the way. What do you mean by "better"? Prettier? Easier to navigate? More visibility in search engines? More relevant content?

Let's discuss all these and more. What ideas do you have for our session?

How to paint your own blog images:

This how-to session is led by Jessica Palmer, Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove and Glendon Mellow:

Take this workshop by a couple of professional artists and get started on illustrating your blog with your own art.

Not just text - image, sound and video in peer-reviewed literature:

This session is moderated by Moshe Pritsker and Apryl Bailey:

Moving publishing from paper to the Web will change the format of the scientific paper. Things that are impossible to do in print are easy online. What are some of the first strides and what is the future of multimedia as an integral part of a scientific report?