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
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
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
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
Bryan Alexander: home page, Twitter
NITLE: http://www.nitle.org/