Each semester Wilkinson College offers a variety of workshops for graduate students on topics related to academic, personal, and career development. Graduate Students may register for this 0 credit P/NP class through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530. Undergraduate students who have been admitted to a 4+1 program or who have less than 18 credits remaining for graduation may register through the Undergraduate Request to Register for Graduate Course form available on the Office of the Registrar's website.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2017 7-9:50PM
Digital Research Tools
Beckman Hall 201

This workshop will be an introduction to four digital tools that every graduate student should learn to make their research projects easier and more organized. The tools are:

1. The Google NGram Viewer: Search all the books for your topic keywords, and create a visualization to show trends in your topic over time
2. Google Search Operators: Search smarter using a few simple commands
3. Zotero: Scrape bibliographic data directly from the web, attach your notes, and then create footnotes and full bibliographies with just one click
4. Hypothesis: Annotate any online source with your research notes

If you have a laptop computer (either Mac or PC), please bring it to class. There will be laptops available to anyone who does not have their own.

Jana Remy, Chapman University,
Associate Director of Digital Scholarship

Jana Remy holds a Ph.D in History from UC Irvine. In her role at Chapman she supports faculty in a wide variety of technologies for teaching and scholarly collaboration.  Some of these tools include Zotero, WordPress, PollEverywhere, Qualtrics, and the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Her current research projects include “Mapping Medicine:” a tool to spatialize the relationships between southern California physicians from 1860-1900, a crowdsourced transcription effort titled Re-writing the War Letters, the building of a platform to host online Tenure & Promotion dossiers, and fostering a local hub for digital scholarly collaboration.  In addition to her administrative work, she teaches Digital Humanities and Environmental History.

On her way to an “alt-ac” career path, Jana started a podcast, chaired a few academic conferences, helped raise a barn, and was praised by The New Yorker for her bright and harmonious books.  An early adopter of many online tools, Jana has a blog archive stretching back ten years and frequently contributes to instagram, twitter, and flickr.