Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 05:43:17 -0500
From: Jenna Hartel <[log in to unmask]>

iSquares: A New Approach to Information Research and Education Join us for 
a Webinar on Friday, February 7 FREE for ASIS&T members, $10 for 
non-members Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: 
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-2-7-2014-register.html

This webinar introduces an arts-informed, visual approach to engage the 
concept of information afresh: the draw-and-write technique. Human 
subjects are asked to answer the question "What is information?" in the 
form of a drawing, generating a compact piece of visual data coined an 
"iSquare"  (http://www.jennahartel.com/isquares.html).

  The webinar instructor, Dr. Jenna Hartel of the University of Toronto, 
has used the method to explore how people envision information (Hartel, in 
press, 2013a, 2013b). She also applies the approach in classrooms to help 
students, especially newcomers, theorize information (Hartel, 2014). 
Whether employed as a research method or pedagogical strategy, iSquares 
bring information science into the visual Information Age and create a 
richer multimedia genealogy for our central concept.

The goal of the webinar is to help other information scholars and 
professionals experiment with arts-informed, visual methods and iSquares, 
specifically.

First, the webcast outlines the theoretical framework, research design, 
and data-gathering specifications to produce iSquares for the purposes of 
information research. Then the session provides classroom activities and 
assignments to utilize iSquares for information education. The webinar 
also marks the launch of a website that displays the corpus of images 
gathered thus far (n=400 and growing).

References: 
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-2-7-2014-t5H7.pdf

This webinar is being sponsored by SIG-HFIS & SIG-USE.

Title:     iSquares:
A New Approach to Information Research and Education
Date:     Friday, February 7, 2014
Time:     11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
After registering you will receive a confirmation e-mail
containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone, iPad®, Android phone or Android tablet