IAGs (Intersections Action Groups)

Intersections Action Groups are facilitated discussions centered on the topics of research and professional development at the intersection of the arts and special education. The discussions are intended to create opportunities to move the field forward as a whole, and form meaningful connections between those doing similar work.

This year, IAGs will be focused on two topic areas: Professional Development and Research. We hope that you will participate in these discussions during the conference and continue doing so throughout the year. Learn more about both below!
 

RESEARCH IAG
 

The Research Affinity Group has identified four areas as its mission: (1) to identify and further research needed at the intersection of the arts and special education, (2) to foster research methodologies that impact policy change, funding, and practitioners, (3) to translate research for different purposes such as to improve teaching, include in grant applications, and influence policy, and (4) to provide access to research. Action plans for each of the four areas are linked here with an invitation to contribute to the work and with instructions on how to access and contribute to a living bibliography with links to researchers' projects in process and published studies, as well as funding sources and partnerships.
 
Action Plans - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ImakS2u7J1vlg-GUYSrrP1y7uQPyAQfER5aJtVUcxok/edit?pli=1

Living Bibliography - https://www.zotero.org/groups/intersections

Getting Started with Zotero to ACCESS & CONTRIBUTE to a LIVING BIBLIOGRAPHY on Intersections of Arts & Disability Studies Research

Zotero is a free Firefox plug-in for recording and organizing bibliographic information about Web pages, images, and online journal articles, and bibliographical information not online. Zotero enables export of selected references as a formatted bibliography text file in recognized writing styles such as APA and MLA, or custom reference styles. Zotero is a research tool that leverages the concept of tagging. Zotero can extract key metadata from Web pages and insert them into citations. In addition to collecting metadata, Zotero organizes user-generated information including snapshots, images (e.g., from Flickr), notes, attachments, tagging, and related items.
 
Once the plug-in is installed, the Zotero icon is at the bottom of the Firefox browser, easy to access your private entries, as well as to join groups or create a new group.  For a quick start video tutorial go to http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide
 
For Intersections, please join the Intersections group at https://www.zotero.org/groups/intersections

Once in the Intersections group create a collection or contribute to an existing collection to collaboratively build knowledge about specific research, methodologies, and translations of research into practice.

Research IAG Google site - https://sites.google.com/site/researchiag/

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IAG


More information coming soon!