HILLgroup Events 2006

Multimedia Collaboration is Theme of Session at CLAC Conference

June 14, 2006 - Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca, Reference Librarian Lynn Mayo and Instructional Technology Specialist Krista Siniscarco presented a session during the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) Conference being held at Hamilton this week. The session, titled “Turn On, Tune In, Print Out: A Professor-Technologist-Librarian-Student Experiment in Multimedia Collaboration,” reported the results of an “experiment” on conducting an entire seminar around multimedia. More ... 

The Net Generation and Multimodal Assignments

May 18, 2006

The Net Generation (panel discussion)
Moderators:
Krista Siniscarco, Instructional Technology Specialist
Kristin Strohmeyer, Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Library Instruction
A panel of Hamilton College and area high school students responded to published descriptions of, and questions posed about, the Net Generation.

Multimodal Assignments (panel discussion)
Moderators:
Ella Gant, Associate Professor of Art
Janet Simons, Instructional Technology Specialist

Panel:
John Adams, Visiting Professor of Communication
Danielle DeMuth, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Steve Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History

For more information, contact HILLgroup, HILLgroup@hamilton.edu.

Suggested readings:
Net Gen BLOG (password: hillgroup)
Multimodal Scholarship BLOG (password: hillgroup)

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty and HILLgroup, Hamilton Information & Learning Liaisons.
 

Multimedia Narrative Workshop

April 21, 28-29, 2006

Workshop Teachers:
Janet Simons, Krista Siniscarco, Maureen Scoones

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.

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
and HILLgroup, Hamilton Information & Learning Liaisons.

Introduction to GIS

March 15-17, 2006
A workshop for faculty and staff of Hamilton College, Colgate University, and other participating colleges.

Workshop participants learned about GIS fundamentals, covering the basics of ESRI's ArcGIS software as it is typically applied in liberal arts courses: as a tool for visualization of data, spatial analysis, and communication through maps. Participants practiced various methods of data acquisition and analysis, emphasizing throughout the best practices for integrating GIS into college classroooms. Approaches to web-based mapping were also be covered.

This workshop was sponsored by Hamilton College, Colgate University and Latitude, a NITLE collaboration advancing the integration of spatial reasoning and GIS across the curriculum.

For more information, contact Deborah Reichler, dreichle@hamilton.edu or (315) 859-4082.

Internet Mapping Services Demonstration

Scenes @ Hamilton