Events 2009
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)
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
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)
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)
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)