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ICPSR webinar features “New Orleans Slave Sample 1804-1862”

The ICPSR Social Sciences Data Fair is coming in November. As part of the activities, it is featuring a number of free webinars that are open to all faculty and students.

One, offered by Jim Oberly of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, may be of particular interest. On Thursday, 11 November, from 11-12, he is offering a webinar entitled “Students Analyzing Data in the Large Lecture Class: Active Learning with SDA Online Analysis.” The webinar will explore how Oberly uses the “New Orleans Slave Sample 1804-1862” in a introductory-level U.S. history class.

You can register for the free webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/478069771. The complete description follows:

Faculty have used ICPSR datasets in their teaching for a generation, mainly by showing slides of data analysis and by having students do term papers. Two changes in campus computing make it possible for instructors now to involve students in the large lecture classroom in data analysis: the first is the near-universal access to the Web via Wi-Fi connections; the second is the proliferation of cheap, flexible laptop and notebook computers that an increasing number of students bring to class. In the large, introductory lecture class (more than 50 students), instructors can take advantage of these two developments to pose questions, assign students in groups data analysis tasks, and call on them to report their findings and discuss conclusions. This 2010 Virtual Meeting workshop will demonstrate how the instructor has used ICPSR Dataset # 7423 (“New Orleans Slave Sample 1804-1862”) in a introductory-level U.S. history class with 100 students taking part in the posing of questions, the division of labor in answering the questions, the SDA analysis of the data, student presentation of their findings, and discussion of the meaning of the answers presented.

H/T to Pam Baxter at the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) for this tip.

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