Learn How Easily Authoring
Multimedia Objects Can Be
Lou Zweier, director of the CSU Center for Distributed Learning, housed in the Schulz Information Center, will demonstrate how to use Pachyderm, an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience. This event is on March 14 from 10-11 a.m. in Schulz 3001. Pachyderm is accessed through a Web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a Web form. Authors upload their own media, images, audio clips, and short video segments and place them into pre-designed templates. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation that can be burned to CD or accessible online. For session information, contact Brett Christie, ctpd@sonoma.edu, 4-2873
"Life in Bold Colors: Haitian Art from the Collection of Patrick Jamieson”
“Life in Bold Colors” invites the viewer to explore Haitian art through the lens of a collector interested in understanding of how these particular West Indians, descendants of slaves, understand their own relationships to the rest of the world; and how their artwork embodies the social, religious and political powers that provide multiple subtexts for daily existence. Many of the works shown in “Life in Bold Colors” are created with vivid colors -- an ironic contrast to the turbulence in Haiti over the last century.
This exhibition, which runs March 12-April 27, not only features the works of 16 Haitian artists but also depicts the unique interests of a specific collector, Patrick Jamieson, of Novato. Jamieson will speak about this collection on March 15 from 4 – 6 p.m. in Schulz 3001. For a complete library lecture schedule, visit the website.
Optical Filters and Their Applications
Robert Sargent of JDS Uniphase is lecturing on optical filters and their applications on Thursday, March 15 from 4:30-5:15 p.m. in Salazar 2009A. The event is part of the Engineering Science Lecture Series. Sargent will review how optical coatings work and how they are made and examine a number of the many applications where they find use. Such coatings can be found on eyeglasses and digital cameras.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Agilent Technologies Foundation under the SSU-Agilent Partnership Program. For more information, contact Jagan Agrawal, Chair of the Engineering Sciences Department, at 4-4438.
Learn to Be Bilingual
"Learning to Be Bilingual: The Use of Student Ethnographic journals in the Spanish Class” presented by Robert Train from the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. The lecture is on Thursday, March 22 at noon in Stevenson 3082. Train will describe an ongoing teacher research project on the use of digitally-submitted ethnographic journals by Sonoma State students studying Spanish at the lower-division level to explore identities and ideologies surrounding Spanish, its use and learning in California. Train believes the project may offer an avenue toward redefining an “educated person’” as someone who also has expertise in negotiating the multiple global and local identities and ideologies that are part of being bilingual or multilingual.
Attend the Immigrant Rights
Social Action Conference
Immigration and immigrant rights is the focus of the ninth annual Labor and Social Action Conference on March 23-24. The conference opens 7 p.m. on Friday, March 23 in the Cooperage with an opening keynote panel discussing “Immigrant Rights as Human Rights: National and International Issues in Immigrant Employment in the United States."
Saturday's sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Warren Auditorium. The program begins at 9 a.m. with the plenary panel discussion “The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened, The Way Forward for the Immigrants Rights Movement in the North Bay.”
The day also presents eight workshops in two sessions including “Union Organizing and New Immigrants: Building Community Partnerships for Labor and Immigrant Rights," "The New Ethnic Media," "Voices From Roseland," "Juvenile Gangs: Realities and Misinformation," "Building the Social Justice Movement through Interfaith Organizing" and more.
Other events include a lunch time career fair with unions, social action groups and community-based organizations. There will be a Mexican buffet lunch and time for networking.
The cost for the entire conference is $60 for general admission and $25 for students/scholarship. Cost for Friday keynote or morning plenary only is $15. One unit college credit is available through the School of Extended Education. Scholarships are still available.
The two-day event sponsored by the School of Social Sciences and the North Bay Central Labor Council provides community activists, labor leaders and members, students, professors and citizens the opportunity to build leadership skills.
For complete information, visit the web site or phone Margaux Hardy at 545-7349, ext. 219.