WoodruffLibrary February 2014

 

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

 CITT Workshop Part II - Spring 2014 Follow Up

MORNING AGENDA

 

9:00am – 9:30 Reintroductions

• Last fall's workshop wiki
• Projects: flipped class; audio instead of  video; visual literacy; digital humanities; presentation tools;  
• Bryan's blog and his morning view

 

9:30 - 10:00 Open education resources 

• "Open Education in the Liberal Arts: A NITLE Working Paper"
• example of teacher's resources: DS106 assignment bank 
• Project Gutenberg for ebooks 

 

10:00 - 10:20  Visualization technologies and techniques for the classroom

• ACRL standards
• Some practical classroom tips 
• Key principle: faculty or student selected images?
• From fall, samples of classroom use: 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 

 

10:20 - 10:35 (roughly) - Break time

 

10:35 - 10:50 Wiki technologies in the classroom

• Examples: Latin Wik-tionary, Microbe wiki, Catholic Social Thought (for fun: Lostpedia)

 

10:50 - 11:15  Assessing student digital work and visual literacy

• Apply general assessment frameworks
• Create rubrics 
• digital storytelling example 

 

11:15 - 11:45 Projects so far

• presentation tools: Storify;  Prezi; Wordle

 

11:45 - 12:00pm  Conclusions and next steps