Events
NITLE Summit
March 29-30, 2009
DoubleTree Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
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As a community, institutions in the NITLE Network are facing similar challenges in the current economic climate. At the same time, they must also find and take advantage of opportunities where they exist, using a variety of strategic responses to deal with unique situational needs. At the annual NITLE Summit, campus leaders will have the opportunity to engage in high-level, peer-to-peer sharing with colleagues from other participating colleges, sharing information about the strategic responses and successful tactical approaches they have pursued and are pursuing to strengthen their learning missions with digital technology. By pooling the specific knowledge and experiences of individual institutions in an inter-institutional context, participating teams can identify common concerns and transform them into opportunities for collaboration. (Full Story)
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NITLE IT Leaders
March 27 - 29, 2009
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
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Instructional technology departments vary in configuration and size from campus to campus, but their responsibilities are similar. Instructional technology leaders have primary responsibility for engaging liberal arts colleges with technology in ways that most effectively serve their institutions' educational goals. As instructional technology matures as a profession, how can instructional technology leaders help their campuses maximize existing investments (course management systems, institutional repositories, etc.) while continuing to scan for and evaluate new developments?
This conference will serve as a forum for instructional technology leaders to discuss the state of the profession and share their insights and experiences on the integration of technology in the liberal arts classroom. Participants will learn about successful practices at other campuses for helping faculty use technology as a tool to improve their teaching and appeal to the interests of "digital natives." The group will have an opportunity to brainstorm about how to build effective partnerships with other campus groups - including faculty, librarians, information technologists, and campus administrators - to promote technology that serves pedagogical goals.
March 28th - "Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Collaboration" Presentation by
Janet Simons, Dave Baird, and Nikki Reynolds
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Digital Video in the Curriculum
March 6, 2009
Online in the NITLE MIV Auditorium
With many students and faculty members now able to capture digital video on their mobile devices, upload it to YouTube in a matter of seconds, and select and play any of millions of digital videos on their laptops, the moving image has rapidly become a pervasive part of our culture on and beyond the campus. Janet Simons, Instructional Technologist, Hamilton College, and Tamra Hjermstad, Instructional Technology Consultant, Mt. Holyoke College, will lead a discussion about the ways in which they are working with faculty members to help them integrate digital video in the curriculum. (Full Story)
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Media Scholarship NERCOMP SIG
February 2, 2009
College of the Holy Cross, MA
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. (Full Story)
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Lights, Camera, Action… Analysis and Creative Expression: Improving the Quality of Student Media Scholarship (Innovative Practice)
January 21, 2009
Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL
In the past year, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University, supported by a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund grant, collaborated to develop interdisciplinary assignment models that promote media scholarship by students across the curriculum. In this presentation, we will report on our efforts to date in developing assignment models and evaluation criteria for multimodal student scholarship. These efforts are an attempt to capitalize on student interest in digital media with the goal of deepening engagement with course content and effectively synthesizing it into a multi media format. (Full Story)
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St. Lawrence Critical Literacies Discussion
November 12, 2008
St. Lawrence University
Dave Baird (Colgate) and Janet Simons (Hamilton) join Cathy Tedford and the members of St. Lawrence's Critical Literacies Group in a discussion of the Media Scholarship Collaboration project activities and goals. Questions about teaching media literacy and criteria for media scholarship will be discussed in the context of examples of assignment models and project outcomes from each of our campuses. Media Scholarship Collaborators at Hamilton College and Colgate University participate in this live videoconference. (Full Story)
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The Net Generation as Harbingers of Change: Implications for Higher Education
October 8th, 4:15 pm
Hamilton College, Clinton New York
Science Center-Kennedy Auditorium (G027) Campus Map
The Net Generation seems inseparable from technology, text messaging, Googling, IMing, and playing games while listening to iPods. Although technology may be what we notice first, there are much deeper changes underneath, such as the emergence of a participatory culture, where amateurs can be experts, and material is repurposed, remixed, rated and shared instantly, worldwide. Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, collaboration, learning and scholarship--all reshaping the educational landscape. This session goes behind the technology to the deeper changes that challenge our colleges and universities. (Full Story)
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Digital Storytelling Center Workshop
Joe Lambert & Stefani Sese
August 13-15 at Colgate
Supported by an award of the NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund to the Moving Images Collaborative
The goal of the 3-day Basic Workshop <http://www.storycenter.org/basic.html> is to design and produce a 3-5 minute digital story. Students craft and record first-person narratives, collect still images and music with which to illustrate their pieces, and are guided through computer tutorials which enable them, with teacher support, to edit their own stories. Examples of stories produced in the this workshop can be found here <http://www.storycenter.org/stories/>.
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2008 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
"The Age of Migration"
June 21-27, 2008
Colgate University, Hamilton NY
From the urban landscapes of Asia, to the conflict zones of the Middle East, to the multi-cultural societies of Europe, the United States and beyond, unprecedented migrations of exiles, soldiers, laborers, and adoptees intersect with the legacies of war, global capital, and terror. Through film and video screenings and in-depth discussions, The Age of Migration, the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, will probe how hybrid documentaries, video blogs, and speculative histories have become connective tissues which collapse physical distances and accentuate emotional connections. Join us as we map these modern migration patterns and explore the relationship between conflict, movement and transmission.
2008 PROGRAMMER: Chi-hui Yang
Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, supported by an award of the NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund to the Moving Images Collaborative, sent students from Colgate University (Jina Chung, Allison Ewing), Hamilton College (Miranda Riamondi, and Moises Toledano), and St. Lawrence University (Oliver O'Sullivan) to the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The students were required to attend for the entire week and to create a report of their experience. Their reports could take the form of essay, video, journal entries, drawings, or any combination.
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Second Life in Academia
Introduction to Second Life Workshop by Colgate & HamiltonApril 18, 2008
Hamilton College and Colgate University collaborated on a workshop to introduce their campuses to Second Life (SL) and to explore some of the academic uses of SL. (Full Story)
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David J. Gunkel
Strategies for 21st Century Educators & StudentsFebruary 4, 2008
New Media Education concerns not whether and how we involve students in the study of the Internet, the World Wide Web, blogs, wikis, computer games, virtual worlds, etc. but also how these technological innovations necessitate new approaches to instruction and learning. New media, Dr. Gunkel will argue, are not just another phenomenon to be incorporated into the current curriculum or accommodated to existing disciplinary approaches. They simultaneously question many of the assumptions and standard operating procedures of liberal arts education, confronting both students and teachers with new challenges and opportunities. (Full Story)
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Professor Lydia Hamessley
Commercial Folk: Dow Chemical’s ‘Human Element’ CampaignDecember 3, 2007
“DOW Chemical’s Human Element Campaign’s most visible presence was a 90 second television ad that featured lush images of the natural world and ‘real people’ of all ages and races from around the world as well as a voice-over that mixed spiritual profundity and chemistry made mystical: ‘life is elemental,’ ‘we see all things connected.’ However, the music used in the advertisement, ‘The New Harmony Waltz’ by Susan Voelz, is what creates this commercial’s powerful, almost mesmerizing, effect. This leisurely-paced, folk-like fiddle tune transports the listener to an idealized rural world of a simpler time. (Full Story)
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Dr. Samba Gadjigo
The Making of MoolaadéOctober 24, 2007
Moolaadé is one of the most haunting and powerful, of Ousmane Sembene’s features, set in a small African village the film is one of what was envisioned as a trilogy dealing with what the filmmaker called the “Hero-isme au quatidien”, the heroism of everyday life focusing specifi cally on the role of women in Senegalese society. The first of the trilogy Faat Kine (2000) dealt with the struggles of an urban businesswoman in the male dominated world of Affairs in postcolonial Senegal. (Full Story)