02 Feb. Workshop 01: Essay Preparation
This workshop will focus on:
. Effective note-taking
. Question analysis
. Assignment planning
09 Feb. Workshop 02: Critical Analysis
This workshop will focus on:
. Introducing and defining critical thinking
. Applying critical thinking to your reading and writing
. Critical thinking and visual analysis of images
16 Feb. Workshop 03: Developing Your Writing
This workshop will focus on:
. The writing process
. Understanding your audience
. Reflecting through redrafting
23 Feb. Workshop 04: Referencing
This workshop will focus on:
. Why referencing is important in academic writing
. Representing evidence in academic writing
. How to avoid plagiarism
02 February-30 March 2010,3-4pm Boole 5 (Boole Basement)
Students are welcome to suggest topics for future sessions. Please e-mail James Cronin with your suggestions.
Monday 21 December 2009
Friday 20 November 2009
How can I insert an image and caption into a word document?
There are several ways to insert a picture into your Word document. The easiest way is to drag and drop the photo from Windows Explorer into your document. The traditional way to insert a picture is to use the Insert menu:
1. Click Insert
2. Select Picture
3. On the Submenu, select From file
If you opt to insert a picture from the Insert menu, the Insert Picture dialog box opens. Select your picture by highlighting it and click Insert. Or, you can simply double-click the picture file. The picture will appear in your document.
It is recommended that you set your image and text into separate tables. You can do this by clicking the Table menu, Insert, Table. Set Rows and Columns to 1 for a single image or single text box. You can adjust the text and image borders by highlighting the cell and right-click the mouse to access the Table Properties tab and then by clicking on the Borders and Shading dialogue box. Click on the None tab and OK this will make the table box look invisible when you print it out.
1. Click Insert
2. Select Picture
3. On the Submenu, select From file
If you opt to insert a picture from the Insert menu, the Insert Picture dialog box opens. Select your picture by highlighting it and click Insert. Or, you can simply double-click the picture file. The picture will appear in your document.
It is recommended that you set your image and text into separate tables. You can do this by clicking the Table menu, Insert, Table. Set Rows and Columns to 1 for a single image or single text box. You can adjust the text and image borders by highlighting the cell and right-click the mouse to access the Table Properties tab and then by clicking on the Borders and Shading dialogue box. Click on the None tab and OK this will make the table box look invisible when you print it out.
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Planning the types of resources you need for your forthcoming essays.
In addition to creating a spider map of the ideas and themes you wish to discuss in your essay you may consider making a similar diagram for the types of resources you may need to draw on for your essay: do you need a combination of online and hard copy resources? What types of online resources do you need? how will you integrate these into your project work? Give yourself enough time to consider the resources most appropriate to the essay topic (review previous posting).
Integrating the Web into your study
In many cases, the Web cannot replace the authority of a book, dictionary entry or a journal article. However, there are ways in which the Web can enhance your understanding of a discipline. Here are a few suggestions:
Virtual tours of buildings can give you an idea of how buildings function in three-dimensions and how decoration and images operate as a complete programme, see the following examples:
Ravenna Monuments Dynamic Images this website provides 360 degree dynamic panoramas of the historic early Christian basilicas of Ravenna, Italy. All images are zoom-enabled. Manipulate the images by dragging your cursor over them.
ItalyGuides offers you a rich collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy's most famous city monuments. These can be explored 360° and each of them comes with text written by history of art professionals. ItalyGuides.it also provide free audio guides download (for iPod or mp3), video in high definition (HDTV), google maps and more than 3000 photos in the photo galleries. The site includes tours of Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice.
Maps and Timelines can enhance your understanding of the political geography of countries or regions. For example, Italy was not a unified country at the time of the Renaissance, but was fractured into different regional and political divisions see map.
World map and Timeline from the Metmuseum website.
Architectural plans, elevations and reconstructions give you an idea how buildings were constructed and how they changed over time, broadly speaking, black or shaded areas in an architectural plan denote solid walls while white areas denote open space see:
Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture the glossary is a searchable database of illustrated architectural terms and styles. This is illustrated with plans, elevations and reconstruction drawings.
Architecture of Renaissance Italy essay from the Metmuseum website. This essay has embedded images which you can magnify through zoom tools. Many galleries are now scanning their collections and hosting them online as open access high resolution images. Zoom tools allow you to take a close look at paintings or manuscripts and help in understanding how the object was made.
Virtual tours of buildings can give you an idea of how buildings function in three-dimensions and how decoration and images operate as a complete programme, see the following examples:
Ravenna Monuments Dynamic Images this website provides 360 degree dynamic panoramas of the historic early Christian basilicas of Ravenna, Italy. All images are zoom-enabled. Manipulate the images by dragging your cursor over them.
ItalyGuides offers you a rich collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy's most famous city monuments. These can be explored 360° and each of them comes with text written by history of art professionals. ItalyGuides.it also provide free audio guides download (for iPod or mp3), video in high definition (HDTV), google maps and more than 3000 photos in the photo galleries. The site includes tours of Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice.
Maps and Timelines can enhance your understanding of the political geography of countries or regions. For example, Italy was not a unified country at the time of the Renaissance, but was fractured into different regional and political divisions see map.
World map and Timeline from the Metmuseum website.
Architectural plans, elevations and reconstructions give you an idea how buildings were constructed and how they changed over time, broadly speaking, black or shaded areas in an architectural plan denote solid walls while white areas denote open space see:
Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture the glossary is a searchable database of illustrated architectural terms and styles. This is illustrated with plans, elevations and reconstruction drawings.
Architecture of Renaissance Italy essay from the Metmuseum website. This essay has embedded images which you can magnify through zoom tools. Many galleries are now scanning their collections and hosting them online as open access high resolution images. Zoom tools allow you to take a close look at paintings or manuscripts and help in understanding how the object was made.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Referencing Internet sources
Looking for images? Four basic questions to ask yourself
1. What do I need the image for? (private study, essay, presentation)
2. Where is the best quality image to be found? (galleries and image databases)
3. Which websites have most trustworthy? (institutional websites such as galleries, museums or universities are to be recommended)
4. Do I have permission to use the image? (Check the terms and conditions of use on the host site)
Resizing images for your essay or project
The image properties are measured in pixels (picture elements per inch) for example 64 x 48 is a small image, 640 x 480 is a medium size image and 6400 x 4800 is a large image. Increasing the size of a small digital image will result in a blurry or pixelated image. It is easier to reduce the size of a larger digital image than to increase a smaller one.
Note that all images you find online are not free to use so check the terms and conditions of use on the site. If you are allowed to use that image for private study or for your project work it is important to reference it in much the same way as you would reference a textual source.
Referencing images in your essay or project
From the Web
artist: title of work. date; gallery or museum, city [online source]. [date of site] URL: site address found in address bar [date of site access]. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, a string of code making up the website address, for example, http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome [World Wide Web search interface]. [2009] URL: http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg [15 Oct 2009].
From a text
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome (in, followed by the name of the author, date of publication, page and/or illustration number). Remember to include the citation as a reference in your bibliography.
1. What do I need the image for? (private study, essay, presentation)
2. Where is the best quality image to be found? (galleries and image databases)
3. Which websites have most trustworthy? (institutional websites such as galleries, museums or universities are to be recommended)
4. Do I have permission to use the image? (Check the terms and conditions of use on the host site)
Resizing images for your essay or project
The image properties are measured in pixels (picture elements per inch) for example 64 x 48 is a small image, 640 x 480 is a medium size image and 6400 x 4800 is a large image. Increasing the size of a small digital image will result in a blurry or pixelated image. It is easier to reduce the size of a larger digital image than to increase a smaller one.
Note that all images you find online are not free to use so check the terms and conditions of use on the site. If you are allowed to use that image for private study or for your project work it is important to reference it in much the same way as you would reference a textual source.
Referencing images in your essay or project
From the Web
artist: title of work. date; gallery or museum, city [online source]. [date of site] URL: site address found in address bar [date of site access]. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, a string of code making up the website address, for example, http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome [World Wide Web search interface]. [2009] URL: http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/3umbtrip/37entom.jpg [15 Oct 2009].
From a text
Raphael: The Entombment (The Deposition) 1507; Galleria Borghese, Rome (in, followed by the name of the author, date of publication, page and/or illustration number). Remember to include the citation as a reference in your bibliography.
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Beyond Wikipedia and Google: Resources Workshop Series
Resources workshops for first academic term, 2009/10
Period 01 13th October - 8th December 2009
These sessions are open to undergraduates and postgraduates
13th Oct – 8th Dec 3-4pm ORB_123 (O'Rahilly Building)
____________________________________________________________
Oct-13 Introduction to History of Art online resources
This session surveys History of Art's current online resources
Oct-20 Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Website evaluation
What are the criteria for choosing the most appropriate online resources?
Oct-27 Art History databases, galleries and portals
This session explores the best way to access hard to find images
Nov-03 Online research tools and the visualisation of data
This session surveys the latest online tools for data capture and representation
Nov-10 How to use web sources responsibly (citation and copyright)
This session reviews the citation of online sources in project work, papers and dissertations
Nov-17 Understanding digital images (files, size and compression)
This session suggests ways to import images in presentations and projects
Nov-24 Understanding digital images (colour and capture)
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations and projects
Dec-01 Using digital images in PowerPoint presentations
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations
Dec-08 Advanced PowerPoint (embedding media)
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations
Dec-15 Review and workshop evaluation
The series will be co-ordinated by James G. R. Cronin and guided by facilitators from the School of History (including History of Art) and the Boole Library, University College Cork. Topics will be explored through a inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach. Theory will be embedded in practice as each session will focus upon an authentic problem or issue to engage with. Traces of sessions will be archived on this blog site. Students will be encouraged to suggest topics for the second term.
Fostering information literacy skills has been identified as a significant challenge to be faced over the next five years read. This series aims to engage with this challenge.
IBL: Inquiry-based learning (IBL) resembles problem-based learning (PBL). Both are student-centered instructional strategies in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences. Students work in small collaborative groups. Students are encouraged to direct the learning process with support from a tutor or instructor who acts as a learning facilitator. Advocates of IBL and PBL claim these approaches can be used to enhance content knowledge and foster the development of communication, problem-solving, and self-directed learning skills.
Period 02 5th January- 30th March 2010
1st Years
5th Jan – 30th March 1-2pm ORB_244 (O'Rahilly Building)
2nd Years
5th Jan – 30th March 3-4pm Boole 5 (Boole Basement)
Period 01 13th October - 8th December 2009
These sessions are open to undergraduates and postgraduates
13th Oct – 8th Dec 3-4pm ORB_123 (O'Rahilly Building)
____________________________________________________________
Oct-13 Introduction to History of Art online resources
This session surveys History of Art's current online resources
Oct-20 Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Website evaluation
What are the criteria for choosing the most appropriate online resources?
Oct-27 Art History databases, galleries and portals
This session explores the best way to access hard to find images
Nov-03 Online research tools and the visualisation of data
This session surveys the latest online tools for data capture and representation
Nov-10 How to use web sources responsibly (citation and copyright)
This session reviews the citation of online sources in project work, papers and dissertations
Nov-17 Understanding digital images (files, size and compression)
This session suggests ways to import images in presentations and projects
Nov-24 Understanding digital images (colour and capture)
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations and projects
Dec-01 Using digital images in PowerPoint presentations
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations
Dec-08 Advanced PowerPoint (embedding media)
This session is relevant for image capture in presentations
Dec-15 Review and workshop evaluation
The series will be co-ordinated by James G. R. Cronin and guided by facilitators from the School of History (including History of Art) and the Boole Library, University College Cork. Topics will be explored through a inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach. Theory will be embedded in practice as each session will focus upon an authentic problem or issue to engage with. Traces of sessions will be archived on this blog site. Students will be encouraged to suggest topics for the second term.
Fostering information literacy skills has been identified as a significant challenge to be faced over the next five years read. This series aims to engage with this challenge.
IBL: Inquiry-based learning (IBL) resembles problem-based learning (PBL). Both are student-centered instructional strategies in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences. Students work in small collaborative groups. Students are encouraged to direct the learning process with support from a tutor or instructor who acts as a learning facilitator. Advocates of IBL and PBL claim these approaches can be used to enhance content knowledge and foster the development of communication, problem-solving, and self-directed learning skills.
Period 02 5th January- 30th March 2010
1st Years
5th Jan – 30th March 1-2pm ORB_244 (O'Rahilly Building)
2nd Years
5th Jan – 30th March 3-4pm Boole 5 (Boole Basement)
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Digital Humanities opening new career paths for History and History of Art graduates
In recent years History and Art History graduates have found positions on digital projects. Many of these projects involve making public historical texts and images. Examples of Irish projects include: Long Room Hub, (Trinity College Dublin), Texts, Contexts, Cultures (NUI, Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork) and the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) (Royal Irish Academy). Many projects require graduates with postgraduate qualifications and experience, but you may have what the project needs. Find a project you are interested in and contact the project leader for more information or advice.
Digital Humanities is an umbrella term describing the impact of information technologies in the teaching, learning and researching of subjects like History and History of Art. The 18th March 2009 was assigned a Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities when scholars all over the world, working in the area of humanities computing, wrote an individual diary of their day. The project is published online. This project gives you a sense of the diverse work of digital humanists. Dr. Julianne Nyhan, a digital humanist at the University of Trier, Germany, is a graduate of University College Cork. She took History of Art as a first year option.
Digital Humanities is an umbrella term describing the impact of information technologies in the teaching, learning and researching of subjects like History and History of Art. The 18th March 2009 was assigned a Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities when scholars all over the world, working in the area of humanities computing, wrote an individual diary of their day. The project is published online. This project gives you a sense of the diverse work of digital humanists. Dr. Julianne Nyhan, a digital humanist at the University of Trier, Germany, is a graduate of University College Cork. She took History of Art as a first year option.
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