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Fall 2009 Workshops

Let's Get Down to the Basics – Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Multiple dates and times available -- Sign up -- Limited seating available
Learn how to maneuver through Photoshop's layout by using the tool bar, file menu and color palettes.  Bring an image into Photoshop and be amazed how you turned a dull photo into a masterpiece by scaling, adding text, saturating it and more.

Let's Get Down to the Basics – Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Multiple dates and times available -- Sign up -- Limited seating available
Learn the basic differences and advantages of creating with Adobe Illustrator instead of using other bitmap graphic programs.  Recognize the basics of the toolbox, canvas, swatches, layers, lines and fills. Create an eye-popping advertisement that can be printed at any size to the highest quality.

Let's Get Down to the Basics - Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver
Multiple dates and times available -- Sign up -- Limited seating available
Explore the tools necessary to use Adobe's powerful web editing software. Learn the basics of what HTML is and how it works. Choose a layout, create tables, upload photographs and insert hyperlinks that allow you to create your space for the web.

Let's Get Down to the Basics - Introduction to Adobe Flash
Multiple dates and times available -- Sign up -- Limited seating available
Discover the layout and learn some tips and tricks available to get started using the most powerful design and animation software available for the Internet. Using the timeline, you will learn simple animation techniques, key-framing, motion-tweening, and how to publish your design for use in a web page. Basic HTML experience helpful, but not required.

Mapping Election Data in Your Neighborhood
Sep 17, 3-5 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
See how Geographic Information Systems can be used to explore presidential election voting trends by precinct (VTD) around your neighborhood and across the state.  Then we will compare various demographic trends, such as income, age, and race, and its geographic relationship with voters.  No prior GIS experience is required.  Open to all -- Registration not required.

RefWorks I — Save Time! Avoid Plagiarism!
Sep 18, 2-3 pm, Business Bldg., Rm. 136
Oct 2, 3-4 pm, Business Bldg., Rm. 136
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Learn the basics of RefWorks to organize and store article citations for later use and to cite articles for your paper! You will learn how to export article citations and sources found using databases and Google. You will see how easy it is to use RefWorks to create a list of references for your bibliography, formatted according to your choice of styles such as APA, MLA or many others. This session will enable you to use your precious time for the content of the paper (and fun), not tedious hours learning rules for citing others work. 

RefWorks II – Super Features for Semi-Serious Student Writers!
Oct 16, 3-4 pm, Business Bldg., Rm. 136
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Go beyond the basics of RefWorks and learn how Microsoft Word and RefWork's "Write-N-Cite" software work together to create a polished paper with minimal effort—(sorry, you're in charge of the content, although in this session, we'll work with a "mock" paper to show you how it all works)! Special features of RefWorks, such as Ref Grab-it and RefShare will also be introduced.

Research Newswire: Keeping Current in Your Field using RSS
Sep 22, 2-3:30 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Traditionally, e-mail lists, a handful of publications, and your colleagues have kept you current with what's happening in your field.  Now, there are tools that will help you hear about the latest developments.  These tools bring you blog entries from academic researchers, news from your field's associations, newly published research articles and more.  This session will get you started using RSS for research purposes.

Search Smarter: Researching on the Web
Sep 23, 12-1 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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When you use Google are you searching the whole web?  Learn how to go beyond the surface and focus on what is relevant to you.  We will cover searching the social web, the deep/invisible web and the archived web.

Word for Dissertations
Oct 10, 9-11 am, RH 211-A
Oct 15, 4-6 pm, RH 211-A
Oct 17, 9-11 am, RH 211-A
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Don't let Microsoft Word make writing your dissertation any harder than it already is! Learn how to use advanced features in Word 2007 to write longer documents that will make meeting the Graduate School formatting requirements a less arduous process. 2-inch margin? Table of contents? Automatic numbering of figures? No problem.

The Old "Q & A": Social Science Tests and Measures
Sep 29, 2-3 pm, Central Library, Rm.  B-20
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Are you a social science researcher with questions about scales, questionnaires and other psychosocial instruments?  Get your questions answered!  In this applied workshop, each attendee will leave knowing how to find the best test or scale for his or her research.

It's a Google World, We Just Live In It
Oct 6, 3-4 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Discover the depths of Google Book's contents and learn ways to effectively use Google Scholar to uncover academic articles.  For both, we'll show how to customize these tools to allow you to get full-text through the UT Arlington library, even off-campus!

NOT A FEAR FACTOR: Demystifying the Search for Scholarly Impact
October 13, 2-3:30 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Are you looking to publish but not sure what journals to target? Is your tenure review coming up? Come to this workshop and learn to assess the relevance of a journal in your field for article submission. Already published? Learn how to discover who is citing your work and what your impact factor is. Looking to publish more? Learn how to identify other scholars for collaborative research.

Mapping Happiness
Oct 15, 3-5 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
Learn how you can map world happiness by country and investigate possible causes of this happiness.  The data used in this workshop are the same as those used in this year's One Book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.  See more information about the UT Arlington's One Book program. No prior GIS experience is required.  Open to all. Registration not required.

Beyond Banality: Academic Uses for Twitter
Oct 21, 2-3 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Twitter is so much more than finding out what people had for lunch! Come to this workshop to learn how to set up a Twitter account, how to track information about conferences and other organizations, how to expand conversations within classes as well as among departments and campuses. We will also demonstrate the major applications that can expand and enhance your Twitter experience.

Professional Poster Design and Creation: Using What You Already Know
Oct 30, 4:30-5:30 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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So, you've been asked to present a poster session at a conference?  Don't know where to start?  Learn how to present your research effectively by developing a professional poster using MS PowerPoint 2007.

OMG! What Happened to MLA?!
Nov 4, 2-3 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Long the standard in the humanities, MLA style has a new bible, the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. This workshop will cover new conventions such as no more underlining, no more required URLS, new abbreviations and much much more.

A Better (Web) Surfboard: Firefox
Nov 10, 3-4 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Firefox, like Internet Explorer, is a web browser; however, it differs from IE in very useful ways.  Firefox users have the ability to add extensions or add-ons to their Firefox browsers to make surfing the web more useful and fun.  In this session, we will introduce users to the Firefox browser and install a few awesome extensions, including LibX (which allows you to access library resources from Google Scholar or Amazon.com in one click) and Zotero (which can make bibliographies for you in a snap).

OMG! What Happened to APA?!
Nov 11, 2-3 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
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Long the standard in the social sciences, APA style has a new bible: the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Attend this workshop to discover answers to old questions ("Is ‘the elderly' acceptable use?" "How do I cite a personal interview?") or to address new ones ("What is a digital object identifier and why should I care?").

Vampires in North America: Map Settlements and Migration Patterns
Nov 18, 3-5 pm, Central Library, Rm. B-20
Learn how Geographic Information Systems techniques such as site suitability and shortest path analysis can be used locate vampire settlements and vampiric migratory patterns.  This topic is an exercise of the imagination, with vampire themes taken out of the bestselling Twilight books and movies.  No prior GIS experience is required. Open to all. Registration not required.

If you have questions or need a special accommodation to fully participate in these workshops, please contact Suzanne Beckett at 817.272.0923 or sbeckett@uta.edu. Please allow one week for us to arrange the accommodation.