Patrick Williams's iSchool Homepage

PhD Student/Asst. Instructor
UT School of Information
jpwms@ischool.utexas.edu

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Projects

Currently

I'm working on a consulting project with MAIN.org/Telecommunity Resource Center guru Gene Crick and developing a model for community information resource support at public IT access sites in Bastrop.
I am teaching a section of ~50 undergraduates in one of the iSchool's undergraduate courses, Information In Cyberspace. We redsigned the content and website for the Fall 05 Semester, and have 200+ total students again.
I am conducting a research assignment on student multimedia preferences with Dr. Chen. We submitted a poster proposal for ASIS&T 06, which is somewhat convieniently in Austin.
I launched SOMESOUNDS.ORG, a blog devoted to collaborating with friends on "field recordings, sound art, experimental audio, soundscapes, and things approaching music."
I am building the Texas Storysearch website, through which young creative writers compete for a full publishing package from BookPros Literary Agency, benefiting the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Recently

I created a full-length album of ambient music between July and September 2005.
Working with Drs. Pat and Dick Richardson from the UT Section of Integrative Biology and Dr. Oliver Chen, I built a framework for a resource to present their video Soil Critters: Life in the Great Underneath online for K-12 teachers and students.
I took part the 2005 STS Graduate Student Consulting Workshop and completed a consulting engagement with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Sam Burns and I worked a project evaluating the usability of a collection understanding tool developed by Texas A&M Computer Science Graduate Student Michelle Chang and Dr. John Leggett, Director of A&M's Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. Based on Andruid Kearne's Collage Machine, the tool provides information visualization to enable browsing, ambient learning, and context in large-scale image collections.
I made a series of analog and digital objects, beginning with a wooden model and culminating in a 5 minute video. View project documentation.
Alex Chung and I recently worked with Dr. Randolph Bias's studying the usability of Microsoft ClearType for Programmers. Resulted in a paper being accepted at HFES 2005.
For my Capstone Experience, I worked with Handwire on a usability and information architecture project dealing with Shell's global HR intranet.
Kelly & I served as volunteer docents at the Harry Ransom Center for the "Make it New: The Rise of Modernism" exhibit.
I was involved in judging websites for accessibility as a part of the Accessible Internet Rally-- University of Texas as part of one of my courses, Accessibility: The Web, Multimedia, & the Virtual Body
I was the TA for Oliver Chen's courses.
I was the TA for Randolph Bias's Research course last summer.
Kelly & I got married in Buffalo, New York. We took our honeymoon in Iceland in December 2003.
I spent the spring 2003 semester volunteering at the Information Desk in Perry-Castaneda Library.

Doctoral Coursework

Spring 2006

INF 385T: Creating and Managing Digitial Media Collections
GRS 390J: Community Engagement Projects
EDP 482J: Experimental Design and Statistical Inference

Fall 2005

CRP 390: Designing Digital Communities
EDC 385G: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
LIN 396: E-Society: Computer-Mediated Communication

Summer 2005

Independent Study based on Soil Critters Project

Spring 2005

E387N/INF397/STS311: Qualitative research with readers and designers of texts
PA 388K: Public Policy & the Internet
INF 391D.9: Introduction to Doctoral Research and Theory II

Fall 2004

RTF 393Q: Intermedia
EDP 380K: Fundamentals of Statistical Inference
INF 391D.8: Introduction to Doctoral Research and Theory I

Summer 2004

EDP 398T: College Teaching Methodology
LIS 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy

MSIS Coursework

Spring 2004 Courses

INF 384C: Organizing & Providing Access to Information
INF 388L: Professional Experience Project
INF 381: Individual Study

Fall 2003 Courses

INF 385T: Accessibility: The Web, Multimedia, & the Virtual Body
INF 385G: Usability Evaluation Methods
INF 385M: Database Management Principles & Applications
INF 387C: Managing Information Services Organizations

Summer 2003 Courses

LIS W385T.6: Seminar: Digital Libraries
LIS F397.1: Introduction to Research in Library & Information Science

Spring 2003 Courses

LIS 382L.20: Understanding & Serving Users
LIS 385F: Knowledge Management Systems
LIS 385T.6: Software Usability Engineering

Fall 2002 Courses

LIS 382L.15: Digital Media Design
LIS 385T: Information Architecture and Design
LIS 386.13: Information Technology & the Information Professions
LIS 180J: Introduction to Information Studies