Welcome
Welcome! The University of Michigan School of Information has been a leader in ensuring that innovations in information science and technology are brought to bear in service of the public good. The Community Information Corps (CIC) is at the heart of that effort. CIC serves as focal point for students, faculty, alumni and community members from across disciplines to explore the changing role of information and technology in civil society.
Seminar News
CICers!
We will attempt to bring some "community" to our community this summer by restarting the tradition of potlucks. Kathleen Ludewig will host the first one, May 13, 2009, at 7:00 pm. Location details to come.
Join the CIC and other SI students this Friday at Amer's to discuss Community Informatics and other projects as we plan for the summer and Fall semester.
Informal agenda items include:
Community Informatics students and those interested in declaring CI as a specialization should keep an eye out for an updated version of the Community Informatics TAPS sheet for Fall 2009. It will include up to three additional classes that will count toward the specialization and include well rounded coursework that will provide a theoretical, practical, and research based core for CI.
*Updated April 10* Registration for next semester is already upon us. See the attached pdf (you must be logged in to view it) with a list of graduate-level courses that have community informatics themes in the curriculum. If you have any suggestions for courses that are CIC-like but not listed, let me know and I'll update the list.
New date for CIC alumni panel, the time will be from 12-1, room 311
If you have suggestions for panelists but do not have the sample invitation to send to them via email, please let me know. If you have invited someone and they confirm their plans to attend, please email me or Joanna Kroll know so we can provide our panelists with lunch.
Community News
SI 645, Information Use in Communities, has been listed in Wolverine Access and the SI course catalog. There is not a set time/place for it yet. Below is the revised course description.
SI 645, Information Use in Communities, WILL be taught in the Fall 2009. Dean MacKie Mason decided that this class is worth the financial risk of low enrollment but that it is important to try to have a robust student body represented in this class. However, it will be taught every other year from this point forward so it will not be offered in Fall 2010.
Joan Durrance's excellent course on Information Use in Communities will now be offered Fall 2009. This is an essential community informatics course, not to be missed! Please spread the word to new SI students and students in other graduate schools who may be interested.
Community as Intellectual Space:
Critical Pedagogy and Community Building
REGISTRATION SITE: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2009/
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