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Ciera Price, Trinity '14, tells us about her experience with the First-Year Internship Program. First-year undergraduate students have the opportunity to gain valuable professional experience with Duke campus departments during the spring semester. There are many First-Year Internships to choose from in a wide range of on-campus offices, departments, and centers. Each one offers a substantive project with explicit learning and skill-development goals along with guidance and support from a dedicated staff or faculty member. For more information: http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/career/programs/first-year-internship-program

The FHI, HASTAC, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, and Program in the Study of Sexualities at Duke are pleased to sponsor a Presentation and a Workshop by Modernism and Queer Theory Scholar Petra Dierkes-Thrun of Stanford University. Oscar Wilde has meant different things to different people since the late 19th century, but probably nowhere has his legacy been felt more strongly than in the queer and feminist community and associated scholarship since the 1980s. Today, Wilde is considered a prime ancestral node within the genealogy of queer aesthetics and eroticism of Western culture, due in large part to the many 20th-century writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, and cultural theorists (queer and straight) who have creatively reimagined and critically examined his life and works. But as with all powerful myths of origin, the ongoing story about Wilde as the queer ancestor probably tells us more about our own desires and fears, and our own culture, than about the historical Oscar Wilde and Victorian culture. This talk will deal with queer and feminist afterimages of Wilde since the 1980s (specifically, of Salomé and The Picture of Dorian Gray) that both spiritualize and commodify the signifier Wilde for our own present: their utopian and material impulses, their sale and consumption in queer and mainstream culture alike. Approached from a Foucaultian perspective that regards fantasies of transgression and perversity as constitutive rather than oppositional elements of a larger cultural network, examining these afterimages of Wilde becomes an important way of engaging with an imagined and desired past that continues to speak to us in beautiful and seductive tongues.

9:00-10:30am Sparking the conversation:
Project presentations for feedback and group Q&A
Introduction by Sunny Lee, Open Badges Partner Lead, Mozilla Foundation

Badges Work for Vets
Robert Sparkman, Department of Veteran Affairs; Eric Burg, Department of Veteran Affairs

Peer to Peer University (P2PU)
Vanessa Gennarelli, P2PU

Leverage for Digital On-Ramps
Tivoni Devor, Urban Affairs Coalition; Vivek Reddy, Pragmatic Solutions; Stacy Kruse, Pragmatic Solutions

MOUSE Wins!
Marc Lesser, MOUSE; Meredith Summs, MOUSE

Session begins at 2:30 in. Panel: Badges from design to adoption Introductions by Cathy Davidson and Carla Casilli, Open Badges Project Lead/Learning Group Badges and Assessment: The Myths, the Models and the Opportunities Erin Knight, Senior Learning Director, Mozilla Foundation Featuring an overview of the assessment landscape plus a deep dive on opportunities and approaches for assessment with badges and badge system design. Special attention on embedded, peer, and self assessment. Implementing Badges In Organizations: Amazon.com to Inside Jobs Todd Edebohls, CEO, Inside Jobs Helping organization members accept, embrace, and evangelize digital badges can be easy. Todd Edebohls will share how Amazon.com's ten years of digital badge for employees and customers shaped his view for Inside Jobs and its career exploration site insidejobs.com. Let's Issue Badges (Technically)! Chris McAvoy, Open Badges Product Lead, Mozilla Foundation Chris McAvoy will talk about how to issue a badge with a text editor and a web server to cover the bare essentials, then talk about other issuing options, including Wordpress. Realizing the Common Core: Investing in Teacher Learning & Leadership Barnett Berry, Founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), Inc. Participants will explore the impact the Common Core State Standards are having on teaching and learning and identify ways to transform the profession through badging. We will explore how teachers are teaching to the Common Core today — including a look at pedagogical snapshots — and the implications for education entrepreneurs now and in the future.

10:30-11:30 am Sparking the conversation: Project presentations for feedback and group Q&A Introduction by Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking, HASTAC & Digital Media and Learning Competition LevelUp Lance Chrisman, Effective SC; Jeni Gotto, Adams County School District 50 Who Built America? Badges for Teaching Disciplinary Literacy in History Ellen Noonan, Asia Society; David Langendoen, Electric Funstuff

Agenda is subject to change.

8:30-9:00 am Welcome
Roll Call, Victoria Wegener, Mainspring Consulting

Keith Whitfield, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs,
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University

Cathy Davidson, Co-Director PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and HASTAC Co-founder, Duke University

David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute, and HASTAC Co-founder, University of California, Irvine

9:00-9:45 am Connected Learning and MacArthur Foundation grantmaking
Bay 4 Garage An-Me Chung, Associate Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

9:45-10:00 am Common Core and Gates Foundation grantmaking
Bay 4 Garage Robert Torres, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

10:00-10:15 am Question and answer session
Bay 4 Garage Connie Yowell, Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

An-Me Chung, Associate Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

Robert Torres, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Ranjan Sudan, vice chair of education for the Department of Surgery, and surgical education research fellow Dr. Brandon Henry demonstrated Duke's new da Vinci computer trainer. The simulator allows surgeons to hone their skills without having to book time on heavily used clinical machines, Sudan said.