CEDAR is a two-year Postgraduate training scheme in the use of hypermedia tools.

In addition to the six training workshops and symposium detailed below the scheme also involves an interactive website.

Session 1 (Saturday, February 21st 2009, 10:00h-17:00h, Bangor University)

• Introduction to web-based collaborative research
• Hypermedia tools for doctoral Humanities research
• Intellectual property in the digital sphere
• Multimedia for academic papers (posters and presentations)

Session 2 (Saturday, March 21st 2009, 10:00h-17:00h, Aberystwyth University)

• Working with texts in the digital age: e.g. corpora, e-publishing, digital project design
• Engaging with digital multimodality / multimodal text analysis
• Using Web 2.0 applications in research

Session 3 (Saturday, May 9th 2009, 10:00h-17:00h, De Montfort University)

• Transliteracy: literacy in the digital age
• Multimedia for creative and academic writing: organising creative processes, collaborative writing, editing and presenting online
  
• The De Montfort Creativity Assistant

Session 4 (Saturday, November 2009, 10:00h-17:00h, Bangor University)

• Theory and analysis: Engaging with digital multimodality
  Introduction to desktop publishing, Xara Xtreme

  Podcasting for digital research

Session 5 (Saturday, Feb. 27th 2010, 10:00h-17:00h, Aberystwyth University)

• Digital artefacts and archives
  Document sharing and academic websites (Google Docs/Sites)
  Project design and management: mindmapping (e.g. Mindomo) and e-portfolios (e.g. Mahara)

Session 6 (Saturday, May 15th 2010, 10:00h-16:00h, Bangor University)

• Digital aesthetics (guest speaker: Dr Hans Rustad, Hedmark University, Norway)
  Tools for digital storytelling
  Interactive storytelling in humanities research
  
  
• Hands-on: writing visual novels and programming stories

Final doctoral student symposium (September 17th 2010, Bangor University)

The workshops are free of charge, and grants may be available of up to £70.00 per person per seminar for travel and/or accommodation costs.

For more information contact Dr. Astrid Ensslin at a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk.