<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Avenir-Book">Hi, everyone! It's our pleasure to announce the next offering of the Digitization Academy's course on public participation in digitization of biodiversity collections (see below). Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it. Thanks!</font><div><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font></div><font face="Avenir-Book">With best regards,<br><br>Austin and Kalina</font></div><div><b style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></b></div><div><i>Austin Mast <b>—</b> Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 <b>—</b> Director · Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication · College of Communication and Information · Florida State University <b>—</b> amast@fsu.edu <b>— </b>he/him</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><font size="4"><b style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Course</b><br></font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Apply at </span><a href="https://forms.gle/J2Tf6cSDpdfDeDyN9" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">https://forms.gle/J2Tf6cSDpdfDeDyN9</a><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"> </span><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><font face="Avenir-Book" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">We are pleased to announce the third offering of this course from iDigBio's </font><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Digitization Academy</a><font face="Avenir-Book" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">. This <b>free, online</b> course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a biodiversity collections digitization project that successfully engages the public in online settings. For more information on learning objectives, see the course tile at </font><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/courses" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">https://digitizationacademy.org/courses</a><font face="Avenir-Book" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">. This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as collections managers, curators, student technicians, administrators, or others. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need prior knowledge of biodiversity informatics or specialized software. </font><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><font face="Avenir-Book" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The course will occur <b>from December 12–15 (Tuesday–Friday) between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm ET (= New York City time).</b> </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"> Participants </span><font face="Avenir-Book" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside of class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment.</font><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US may apply.</span><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The course will be led by Austin Mast and Kalina Jakymec, with contributions from a panel of representatives from online public participation platforms.</span><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><b style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Applications are due by 10 am ET on Monday, November 13. </b><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Admissions decisions are likely to be made later that day. We expect to cap the course at about 20 participants and will make admission decisions based on the relevance of your training to your organization's future activities and a desire to engage a diversity of perspectives.</span><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><b style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Direct any questions about the opportunity to Kalina Jakymec (</b><font face="Avenir-Book"><b><font color="#0068da"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 104, 218);"><u>kjakymec@fsu.edu</u></span></font>) or </b></font><b style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Austin Mast (<a href="mailto:amast@fsu.edu">amast@fsu.edu</a>).</b><br><font face="Avenir-Book"><br></font><div><div><i>The Digitization Academy is funded by iDigBio and Florida State University's Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication. iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), & DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</i></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br></body></html>