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Jeff Gima · 13 February 2017

Travel support & other financial assistance to attend AMICAL 2017

AMICAL 2017, at the American College of Thessaloniki of Thessaloniki

You know that you could participate in parts of AMICAL 2017 online, but you want to get more involved than that: you want to participate in person and be one of the people that are making the Conference happen. If that sounds like you, then AMICAL has 3 financial support…

15 December 2016

Call for proposals now open for AMICAL 2017

AMICAL members, the call for proposals for AMICAL 2017 is finally open! Some of you have already been asking about it, including some AMICAL members who’ve never proposed a program session before. We seem to have tapped into something powerful this year by framing the…

Jeff Gima · 28 November 2016

Funded workshops on library assessment, digital humanities and information literacy

AMICAL’s Grant Review Committee vetted proposals for our Mellon Foundation-funded Consortial Training & Workshop Grants program last month, and three great workshops have been approved for sponsorship for this year, 2016-2017. If you’re a faculty member, technologist or…

Jeff Gima · 30 September 2016

How to propose a funded — or free — AMICAL event

Participants collaborating at the Digital Pedagogoy Lab Cairo, 2016.

Here’s one of the things I like most of all to see AMICAL supporting: professional development events that are created on members’ own initiative and for the benefit of the entire consortium. The AMICAL Conference is largely built out of member contributions as well, but…

Jeff Gima · 21 September 2016

Small Grants - September 2016 update

Latest funded activities Responses were sent out Monday to the latest group of applications for AMICAL’s Small Grant Program. Of the three applications received, we accepted the following two: Actively Engaged by Design: Visual Literacy for University Faculty and…

Jeff Gima · 15 September 2016

AMICAL 2017 at the American College of Thessaloniki

This post was edited to reflect the change of event dates to 17-20 May 2017. I’m excited to share the news that our next annual meeting and conference, AMICAL 2017, will be held 17-20 May at the American College of Thessaloniki. Our theme will be “Centering on…

Alex Armstrong · 27 August 2016

AMICAL logins are now unified

We’re happy to announce that we’ve unified the logins across the main AMICAL site and AMICAL Connect, our community forum. Up until now, each system required a separate login. Now, when AMICAL members login to this site, they’ll be granted access to AMICAL Connect as well.…

Alex Armstrong · 28 July 2016

In case you missed it: AMICAL 2016

AMICAL 2016, our annual conference, wrapped up almost three months ago. Since then many of the participants have been busy writing blog posts and gathering other material from the event. Here is a thorough collection: Blog posts Invited workshop leader Laurie Allen…

Laurie Allen · 11 July 2016

Reflecting on AMICAL 2016

Laurie Allen delivering her talk

My experience at AMICAL was overwhelmingly fantastic, and fantastically overwhelming. I have tried many times to reflect with some clarity about the many strands of learning that were going on for me at AMICAL. And I still feel like there’s too much for me to really…

Maha Bali & Jim Groom · 17 June 2016

Does EdTech have an ethos? And why should I care?

Jim Groom & Maha Bali at AMICAL 2016

One of the things that is oft-repeated in our line of work is “it’s not about the technology,” or “it’s not about the tool!” While it sounds good as a slogan, it is actually a pretty ridiculous statement in this day and age. In fact, it is almost dangerous because it…