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LibreFest2021

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LibreFest2021 July 19-23 2021 Schedule (all times EDT)

 

July 19: Day 1 — Intro & Remixing

12:00-12:10 pm– Welcome to LibreFest (Dr. Brent Krueger) 

12:10-1:00 pm — The Evolution of the Textbook (Dr. Justin Shorb)

1:00-2:00 pm — LibreTexts 101 (Dr. Delmar Larsen)

2:00-2:30 pm — Success Stories — Arts & Social Sciences

Crystal Scheib (Anthropology/Archaeology)

Laura Williamson Ambrose (Literature)

2:30-3:00 pm — Break

3:00-3:30 pm — How to Make Remixing Maps (Dr. Josh Halpern)

3:30-4:15 pm– Make Your Own Remixing Map (breakout rooms)

4:15-5:00 pm — Success Stories

 

July 20: Working day/office hours

2-3 hours of office hours during the 12-5pm range

Homework: Work on your remix. Try to complete 5+ chapters.

Prepare a 2-3 min presentation on the project you are working on this week. You will present this to your peers in a breakout room at the beginning of the workshop on Weds.

 

July 21: Day 2 — Editing & Advanced Editing

12:00-12:10 pm — Welcome to Day 2/Recap Day 1 and Day 2 preview (Dr. Brent Krueger)

12:10-12:55 pm — Discussion/Presentation – breakout rooms (6-8 per room)

1:00-1:45 pm – Introduction to Page Layouts, Structure, and Accessibility (Dr. Tom Neils)

1:45-2:30 pm — Hands-on Page Layouts, Structure, and Accessibility (breakout rooms)

2:30 – 3:00 pm — Break

3:00 – 3:45 pm — Success Stories – Languages

Caren Parrish (French)

Cristina Moon (Spanish)

3:45-4:45 pm — Advanced Editing Vignettes

Intro to Vignettes: Dr. Brent Krueger

Brian Lindshield (Nutrition)

Paul Seeburger (Math)

Bob Belford (Jupyter/Hypothesis)

 

July 22: Working day/office hours

1:00-3:00pm — Office hours

Homework: work on editing your page

Prepare a 2-3 min presentation about your page. You will show this to your peers in a breakout room at the beginning of the workshop on Friday.

 

July 23: Day 3 — ADAPT

12:00-12:05 pm  — Welcome to Day 3/Day 2 Recap and Day 3 Preview (Dr. Amber Dood)

12:05-12:50 pm — Discussion/Presentation of your progress on your project (breakout rooms)

12:50-1:40 pm — Introduction to ADAPT (Dr. Delmar Larsen)

1:40-2:20 pm — ADAPT breakout #1 

2:20-2:45 pm — Break

2:45-3:45 pm — Licensing (and small group exercise) (Dr. Delmar Larsen)

3:45-4:30 pm — More Advanced ADAPT (Dr. Delmar Larsen)

4:30-5:00 pm — ADAPT breakout — Meeting closing thoughts, reminder of further resources for using LibreTexts

 

Please note this schedule is subject to change.

 

Instructional Videos

And for some useful instructional videos for editing/remixing/etc on the LibreTexts YouTube Channel.


LibreFest2021 is shared under a not declared license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by LibreTexts.

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