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NERCOMP SIG

In the past year, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University, supported by a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund grant, have collaborated to develop interdisciplinary assignment models that promote media scholarship by students across the curriculum. These efforts are an attempt to capitalize on student interest in digital media with the goal of deepening their engagement with course content. Further, we seek to provide faculty with the necessary frameworks with which to evaluate multimodal student projects. This SIG is our attempt to broaden these discussions and showcase examples of media scholarship from multiple schools in the Northeast.


Participants will engage in discussions that follow a series of presentations of student-authored digital media scholarship that was guided by faculty and supported by instructional technologists and librarians. Discussion will focus on media literacy, learning models, evaluation criteria, and the resources necessary for success.


9:00 am - Descriptions of Collaborative Approaches to Student Media Scholarship
By Dave Baird and Janet Simons


9:30 am - Jazz, Jezebels and Gigolos: The 1920s in Berlin and New York.
Presentation by Mihaela Petrescu and Kelsey Rice. See: www.hamilton.edu/academics/showcase/cpaction.cfm?ProjectGroupID=14
View Presentation Handout


9:45 am - From Digital Storytelling To Multimodal Criticism- The Marrow of African American Narratives. Presentation by Vincent Odamtten and Kira DesJardins. www.hamilton.edu/academics/showcase/cpdetails.cfm?CsProjID=58
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10:00 am - Panel discussion: Analysis of Content, Culture, and Form
With Vincent Odamtten, Mihaela Petrescu, Kira DesJardins, Kelsey Rice, and Janet Simons.


10:30 am - Break


10:45 - Bejing Documentary Projects
Presentation by John Crespi. See http://computing.colgate.edu/itsl/beijing/default.htm
View Presentation Handout


11:00 am - Marginalized Conflicts Podcast Series
Presentation by Tyrell Haberkorn, Clarence Maybee, and Ray Nardelli See http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=3731
View Presentation Handout


Professor Haberkorn talks about the project and provides insights for other faculty.
http://offices.colgate.edu/Video_Console/Preview_Player.asp?VideoID=368


Student's weigh in with their comments on the podcast project.
http://offices.colgate.edu/Video_Console/Preview_Player.asp?VideoID=369



11:15 am - Panel discussion: Immersion & Voice
With John Crespi, Tyrell Haberkorn, Clarence Maybee, and Ray Nardelli.


11:45 am - Lunch


12:45 pm - Critical Literacies and Collaboration Across the Arts
Presentation by Chris Watts
What do potential employers want to see in our liberal arts graduates? According to an AAC&U survey, two of the things they want are 1) the ability to work collaboratively and 2) knowledge of concepts and new developments in science and technology. One of the places they can acquire both of these things is in an arts classroom. Collaboration Across the Arts is an interdisciplinary course that uses digital media technologies as a common ground to bring students from different backgrounds to the same table. Small groups of students work collaboratively on multimedia arts projects throughout the semester, while also stepping back for a critical look at the tools and materials that go into those projects.


1:00 pm - Blogging Digital Media and Culture
Presentation by Amy Hauber
This combination studio/seminar course explores the major theoretical issues surrounding digital technologies and their impact on various aspects of contemporary culture including: aesthetics and perception, creative production, morality, entertainment, identity and other forms of social effects/affects. Studio projects related to readings and discussions investigate the creative potentials of blogging, digital imaging, digital video, animation and hypertext. Assignments, activities, processes and products are tracked on a class blog, and each member of the class (including the instructor) keeps a blog throughout the semester. The instructor's blog also serves as an evolving syllabus for the course. http://blogs.stlawu.edu/digitalmedia/


1:15 pm - Panel discussion of Critical Literacies
With Chris Watts and Amy Hauber


1:45 pm - 2:50 pm - Participant Discussion of Media Scholarship Approaches
Facilitated by Janet Simons, Dave Baird, and Chris Watts

Common Characteristics of courses with beyond text based media assignments:

  • Course assignments are collaboratively developed with technologists, librarians, oral communication and writing center experts.
  • Although students are increasingly engaged with technology, they are generally not savy with technology when it is incorporated into a learning experience and need to develop technology and communication skills to express their knowledge
  • Assignments are structured as a sequence of learning experience building upon each other over the course of the semester so that content can be assimilated simultaneously with critical literacies skill development.
  • Professors work through the assignments and develop models of outcomes for their students
  • Professors develop a rubric for evaluaion of student outcomes based on their own experience creating the models.
  • Deliverables from students go through draft stages with opportunities for revision after feedback from professor, peers, academic support.
  • Public presentation of students outcomes, whether to the class or the world, raises the bar for quality in student work.
  • Beyond text based media assignments require extensive time investment by all involved, students, faculty, academic support.

    • 2:50 pm - Closing Remarks and Survey



    Bios

    David Baird, Director of Academic Technologies at Colgate University
    David completed his Ph.D. in seismology at Cornell University and has been at Colgate since 1998.


    John Crespi, Luce Assistant Professor of Chinese at Colgate University
    Biography at colgate.edu


    Tyrell Haberkorn, Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace & Conflict Studies at Colgate University
    Biography at colgate.edu


    Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at St. Lawrence University
    Amy teaches courses in sculpture/extended media, ceramics, and digital media. She holds the MFA in art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In her teaching, a desire to offer opportunities for autonomous experience and expression, along with a keen interest in digital media and its impact on contemporary culture, have led her to explore new technologies with her students in creative ways. Hauber's recent solo exhibition at the Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia featured a wide variety of media, including mixed and found media works; small kinetic works; ceramic and mixed media works; light sculpture; an interactive analog photographic slide and digital video installation; and large-scale digital prints.


    Clarence Maybee, Assistant Professor and Information Literacy Librarian at Colgate University
    Biography at colgate.edu


    Raymond Nardelli, Digital Media Manager at Colgate University


    Vincent Odamtten, Professor of English at Hamilton College
    http://www.hamilton.edu/news/facultybio.cfm?ID=97


    Mihaela Petrescu, Assistant Professor of German at Hobart William-Smith, formerly at Hamilton College.
    http://campus.hws.edu/academic/popup.asp?id=574


    Kelsey Rice, Junior history major at Hamilton College
    Kelsey plays cello in several Hamilton ensembles and is interested in Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, classical music, and film.
    http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?id=14321


    Janet T. Simons, Instructional Technologist at Hamilton College
    http://www.hamilton.edu/college/its/itsst/people/


    Kira DesJardens, Junior biology major at Hamilton College. Kira plans to attend a graduate program in veterinary medicine after Hamilton.


    Christopher Watts, Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology and Assistant Professor of Music at St. Lawrence University
    A composer and multimedia artist, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2002. Watts is a strong advocate for the power of digital media technologies in crossing disciplines. As Director of St. Lawrence's NCAT, he is charged with helping the arts departments meet their individual curricular goals while also fostering collaborative, interdisciplinary opportunities for students, faculty, and staff across campus.


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