WoodruffLibrary

Workshop at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center:

 notes, materials, and discussion

FULL DAY AGENDA

9:00am – 10:15 -- Introductions & Session 1

• themes: production-consumption; net.gen; collaboration; multitasking w/mobile devices; personal and/or professional

• technologies we use in our personal lives: Evernote, Internet Public Library, Mint.com, Digital Public Library of America, Dropbox, Symbaloo, Photo Stream, Sky Drive, Blogger.com, one cord-cutting article, E. M. Moore, Cozi, Shutterfly, OnStar    

• academic tech: Academia.edu, Socrative,  

• how to shift to using (more) technologies

• professional identity, student engagement, and handling information overload

• Using Google services for single source + search

• Selecting times to be "not wired", offline (knitting)

• Too much information, the historical version 

• Google Alerts 

 

10:15-10:30 -- Break

 

10:30- Noon -- Session 2: new literaries

 

• visual literacy, following up on the first NITLE event

• currently used in class: maps, images (emotional + intellectual impact) (comparative images), Web pages (comparisons), images in eportfolios, iconic images, visualization apps (ex: brain), links to other media, images for vocabulary development; image-saturated culture

• examples: Sociological Images,  Visualizing Emancipation,  Racial Dot Map.  Meta: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.

• materials: The Visual Literacy Toolbox (Maryland), Visual Literacy Resource List (UC Davis) The On-line Visual Literacy Project (Pomona), Visual Literacy (Puget Sound),  Digital Visual Literacy (Maricopa), Visual Literacy wiki, Visual Literacy Standards (Association of College and Research Libraries)

• resources: Flickr Creative Commons images,  Storify

• 3d printing 

• digital + social media literacy

• Howard Rheingold's Net.Smart and "infotention" resources;   

• curation (Tweetdeck) 

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm     Lunch

 

1-2:30 -- Session 3: the flipped classroom

• content outside of class (lectures, instructions, explanations); activities in class (writing, translation, discussion, archival work); plus student work outside of class

• problems: dislike of recording; lack of improv and serendipity; time management 

• an old idea w/new technologies 

• audio: Audacity,  Garageband (free audiobook content: Librivox)

• video:  iMovie, Premiere, Moviemaker

• screencasts, narrated PowerPoint (Camtasia) (example: Drawing at Clark Atlanta)

• modified classroom techniques

• example: Khan Academy 

• need clickers?  Here's the guru. Socrative 

 

2:30-2:45 -- Break

 

2:45- 4:30 -- Session 4 & Wrap Up

 

• digital scholarship:

• Ed Ayers, "Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?", 

• open access: the NITLE paper, PLOSOne  

• topics remaining

• filter failure re: tech and classroom 

• overwhelmed students 

• prosumer revolution: production in late capitalism

• Luddites or not

• Infographics 

• online identity: filter bubble

• copyright : TEACH Act, Creative Commons

• emergent themes from the day 

• privacy

• being deliberate about content creation

• faculty spontaneity in class, in syllabus

• filtering 

• How do you keep up? 

• stalking experts

• faculty institutes

• " workshops

• " development 

• try stuff out

• colleagues

• publishers 

• corporate help

• professional conferences 

• Youtube tutorials

• Wired.com 

• ProfHacker, Wired Campus 

• Next steps

 

 

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NITLE:  http://www.nitle.org/