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Lecture: Representing the World: how web users become web thinkers and web makers
Venue: Alumni Assembly Hall (Holtzman Alumni Center), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
John Udell will give a free public lecture at the Inn at Virginia Tech on Thursday, April 12 at 7 p.m. entitled “Representing the World: how web users become web thinkers and web makers.” Udell, author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator, has been named Virginia Tech’s first Distinguished Innovator in Residence.

The public lecture will be held in the Alumni Assembly Hall at the Inn at Virginia Tech.

In his talk, Udell will explore plans and principles that empower those who use the web to be more active web creators. “Knowing something about how web resources are represented and named makes us better users of the web,” Udell said. “But we’re not just users. We’re participants in—and co-creators of—the web. We can invent our own representations for things in our personal and professional lives, and for contexts surrounding those things. And we can name those representations in ways that enable other people to communicate and collaborate with us.”

“Udell works to help make technology better serve the needs of society,” Gardner Campbell, director of professional development and innovative initiatives for Learning Technologies, said. “His analysis of industry trends is well informed by his own experiments, as you can see on his blog, Strategies for Internet Citizens. As a thinker, doer, and maker in the world of information and communication technologies, Jon is truly committed to the ideal of the strong, productive communities these technologies can and should empower,” Campbell said.

The Distinguished Innovator in Residence is a joint program between Learning Technologies and the University Libraries that brings great thinkers and leaders in the world of technological innovation to Virginia Tech. During his residency, Udell will visit classes, student groups, professors, and other units on campus to brainstorm and consult on a variety of topics.

For more information about the lecture, visit: https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/innovator/ or contact Gardner Campbell at 540-231-8053 or email gardner.campbell AT vt.edu (substitute @ for AT).