International workshop on "Knowledge and Skills related to Digital Tools for Teacher and Teacher Training".

How can teachers make effective use of digital technologies in their teaching? How can they use digital tools to enhance student learning? What do they need to know to be able to do so? And, what can research tell us about how to answer these questions in order to help teachers acquire the necessary professional knowledge and to develop the necessary professional skills? The international workshop "Knowledge and Skills related to Digital Tools for Teaching and Teacher Training - Cognitive Processes involved in Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)" deals with these questions at October, 25th, at the Knwoledge Media Research Center. Guests come from the United States, Cyprus and Israel.

The workshop was initiated by researchers of the ScienceCampus TĂźbingen, Cluster 2 "Digital Videos in Teacher Training". Further informationen you will get at the conference web site.

First International Summer School „Making Sense of Social“ succeeded.

From August, 1st, till August, 4th, 2011, 31 international young researchers took part in the first international Summer School oft he ScienceCampus Tübingen and the Leibniz Graduate School for Knowledge Media Research at the Swabian Alb. Under the topic „Making Sense of Social Media“ they worked out and discussed new research questions and methods in three different workshops to knowledge building, knowledge exchange and social networks. Sonja Utz (VU University, Amsterdam), Dan Cosley (Cornell University, Ithaca) and Jan van Aalst (The University of Hong Kong) acted as workshop leaders. At the first afternoon Robert Kraut (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and Judith Donath (Harvard University, Cambridge) lectured as keynote speaker.

First international Summer School "Making Sense of Social Media" starts.

Today the first Summer School of the ScienceCampus T端bingen starts at the Swabian Alb. During four days 31 international doctoral students work together in three workshop tracks research ideas under the topic "Making Sense of Social Media". The workshops will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz (VU Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. Dan Cosley (Cornell University, Ithaca) and Prof. Dr. Jan van Aalst (University of Hong Kong). At the beginning Prof. Dr. Robert Kraut (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and Prof. Dr. Judith Donath (Harvard University, Cambridge) talk as keynote speaker.

The first Summer School is conceputalized by the ScienceCampus T端bingen and the Leibniz Graduate School of Knowledge Media Research of the Knowledge Media Research Center.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Hesse, spokesman of the ScienceCampus Tübingen, elected for vice-president of the German Leibniz Association.

During its annual general assembly in Duesseldorf, the German Leibniz Association elected a new directorate. Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse, director at the Knowledge Media Research Center and spokesman of the ScienceCampus Tübingen, was elected as new scientific vice-president of the Leibniz Association.

He is now part of the four man steering committee of the Leibniz Association which is responsible for the management and strategic agenda of the research community. The Leibniz Association is an umbrella organisation for 86 institutions in Germany conducting research or providing scientiftic infrastructure.

ScienceCampus Tübingen with successful second project day at the Knowledge Media Research Center.

About 50 scientists from different disciplines came together to discuss and present running projects of the ScienceCampus Tübingen "Informational Environments". In addition to project presentations and the introduction of the new corporate design there was also room for a meeting among the doctoral students of the ScienceCampus.

President of the Leibniz Association visits the ScienceCampus Tübingen.

At August 17th one of his first visits led Prof. Dr. Karl-Ulrich Mayer, the new and first professional President of the Leibniz Association since July 1st, 2010, to Tübingen. There, where the Director Emeritus of Max Planck Institute of Human Development and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology at the Yale University (USA) had studied one year, he visited the Knowledge Media Research Center, the University of Tübingen and their common research network ScienceCampus Tübingen "Informational Environments".

The ScienceCampus Tübingen as the first nationwide ScienceCampus has an exposed position and is groundbreaking for further cooperations between institutes of the Leibniz Association and universities. Now the Executive Board of the Leibniz Association appreciated this by an extraordinary funding for the time from 2011 to 2013 of 900.000 Euro. Today Professor Mayer handed the accordant decision on to the direction of the ScienceCampus, Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse, director of the Knowledge Media Research Center, and Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, rector of the University of Tübingen.

Besides strategic discussions, Professor Mayer, Professor Engler, and Professor Hesse walked through the Alte Frauenklinik of the University of Tübingen. This building, actually in improvement, will be the domicile of the Knowledge Media Research Center and the Psychological Institute of the University of Tuebingen in autumn of 2011. This network of university and non-university researchers will be improved by another decision of the University of Tübingen: the Director's Villa aside will be the domicile of the ScienceCampus Tübingen in the future.