HILLgroup Events 2007
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Technology Workshops
As part of the new "It's easier than you might think!" series, these workshops are being offered at the following dates and times.
Enhanced Podcasts Using GarageBand
Create podcasts that incorporate both images and audio and can be delivered through the Web and played on a video iPod
Date: Monday, February 18th
Time: 10:00am-11:00am
Location: Burke 001
Wikis - Creating and Using Editable, Self-Tracking, Collaborative Web Pages
Make a web page that anyone (or only the people you choose) can edit using only a web browser, then review changes whenever you want.
Date: Wednesday, February 20th
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Spencer House Conference Room
Please send an email to Carl Rosenfield at crosenfi@hamilton.edu with any questions or to RSVP. No prior technology experience is required for any of these workshops.
New Media Education: Strategies for 21st Century Educators and Students
David J. Gunkel, Associate Professor of Communication Technology, Northern Illinois University
February 4th 7 pm in Science Auditorium
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. In addressing these fundamental transformations, Dr. Gunkel will introduce and detail three strategies for effective new media scholarship, all of which cut across the grain of customary approaches in higher education. First, he will demonstrate how some of the best instruction and learning takes place when educators encourage students to play games and spend time with social networks like Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Second, he will argue for the social value of copying and alternative approaches to intellectual property by exploring mash-ups, remixing, and peer-to-peer file sharing. Third, he will encourage us to "watch TV…lots of it," because it is on television and in the movies, especially science fiction and fantasy, that our culture reflects critically about its own technological present. In addressing these three strategies, Dr. Gunkel's presentation will challenge some of the deep-seated assumptions that already influence how we approach new media as both a tool and object of scholarly investigation and will provide practical advice and direction for the future of higher education in an increasingly technological era. David J. Gunkel is an award-winning educator, web developer, and scholar. Formal trained in philosophy and media studies, his teaching and research applies the rigor and insight of philosophical investigation to the hype surrounding information and communication technology. He is the author of two books, Hacking Cyberspace (Westview Press, 2001) and Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Purdue University Press, 2007); he has published over twenty scholarly articles in academic journals; and he serves as the managing editor of the International Journal of ?i?ek Studies. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University, where he teaches courses in the philosophy of technology, computer ethics, computer-mediated communication, and web design and programming. For more information, check out his website at http://gunkelweb.com/gunkel This event is co-sponsored by Hamilton's Dean of Faculty, the Communication department, and the Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts program made possible by an Instructional Innovation Fund Grant from NITLE.
Commercial Folk: Dow Chemical's 'Human Element' Campaign
Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley will present on a paper titled "Commercial Folk: Dow Chemical's 'Human Element' Campaign" in room 108 of the Shambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on Tuesday, January 29th at 4:10 pm. Her paper examines Dow Chemical's $20 million advertising campaign, "The Human Element" (2006).
Campus Life Open House
On Friday, September 7, members of the HILLgroup will be participating in the Campus Life Open House, showcasing the new Information Commons. The redesigned Information Commons is an ITS-Library collaboration designed to provide students with access to multimedia-capable computers, expert research assistance, and technology-related information in one centralized location. Library and ITS representatives will be available at the Open House on Martin's Way between noon and 4:00pm to share information and answer questions. Please stop by and say hello.
ARTstor Workshop
May 17, 2007 - Faculty and staff from several departments attended a two-day ARTstor workshop. Part 1 was an overview of ARTstor content, searching and basic presentation tools. Part 2 focused on teaching with ARTstor with instruction on saving and organizing images, sharing images with students, creating presentations using advanced presentation tools, and the use of the Personal Collections feature to integrate personal images with ARTstor images.
ARTstor is a digital library of 500,000+ images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
For more information about ARTstor, contact Lynn Mayo, lmayo@hamilton.edu, or (315) 859-4746.
Multimedia Narrative Workshop
May 16, 29-30, 2007 - Participants created a 3-5 minute digital story using a combination of images, video, audio and audio voice-over. Session I included a discussion of multimedia narrative with examples of of narratives, script writing and storyboarding; and brainstorming about participants' goals and content (digital and analog objects). Sessions II and III were full-day workshops devoted to hands-on multimedia production.
For more information, contact Janet Simons, jsimons@hamilton.edu, or (315) 859-4424.
Classroom 2.0: How Online Social Networks are Transforming Academic Life
Speaker: Eric Gordon, Emerson College
February 10, 2007 - In December 2006, Time Magazine named "You" the person of the year. As part of what they called a "revolution" in networking technology, they described how the new Web is ushering in a culture of participation where users are just as likely to consume as they are to produce. Americans are contributing to wikis, keeping their own blogs, writing reviews for Amazon.com, keeping their photo albums on Flickr, and making movies to post on YouTube. In what Time calls the "new digital democracy," the consumer holds the power. "You control the media now," reads a headline, "and the world will never be the same."
The classroom, also, will never be the same. Students are entering college with different social patterns, learning habits and cultural expectations. They are consuming and producing within global networks, and have come to demand instant gratification and constant connectivity. So how can colleges and universities respond to this cultural shift without compromising their ideals and mission? How can social networking in the classroom actually increase engagement and productivity? And how can this "culture of participation" work in accordance with existing standards of academic productivity, just as it is transforming the nature of academic work?
Eric Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. His work focuses on technology in public space, perceptions of place in synthetic worlds, and social software in teaching and learning. His book, The Urban Spectator: Emerging Media and the Consumption of the American City, is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.
For more information about this event, contact Carl Rosenfield, crosenfi@hamilton.edu, or (315) 859-4088.
Information Sessions: Course Project Possibilities using Social Software
January 8-12, 2007 - Social software has the potential to foster collaborative opportunities for knowledge sharing and construction. ITS Instructional Support Services would like to demonstrate some of the technologies that are available and examples of how they might be used for teaching. These applications include GarageBand and iWeb for podcast creation, a blogging tool that supports RSS subscriptions and photo slideshows, and a wiki that allows easy collaborative writing using just a web browser.
More information on Social Software at Hamilton College can be found at the Learning Experiences with Social Software Blog at http://academics.hamilton.edu/blogs/socialsoftware/ . Commenting is turned on and encouraged.
For more information about this event, contact Carl Rosenfield, crosenfi@hamilton.edu, or (315) 859-4088.
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