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HILLgroup Events 2008

Upcoming Events:



"What's So Humane about Digital Humanities?"
 
Come to a panel presentation and discussion session led by Martine Guyot-Bender, Angel David Nieves and Brent Rodriguez Plate on Wednesday, November 5th at noon in the Backus House. They will offer three different perspectives on the use of digital resources in support of teaching and scholarship in the humanities:

  • Is teaching with today's news from abroad useful or confusing?
  • Can the digital humanities be used as a tool for social justice?
  • What are we missing when we reduce all our knowledge to The Code?
There will be opportunity for questions and an exchange of viewpoints as part of this Teaching Table sponsored by the Dean of Faculty's Office and the HILLgroup. Lunch will be provided. Please register at <http://www.hamilton.edu/applications/events/index.cfm?iid=0BED5598-2BF9-6D10-A139B91348633291> so that we can get an accurate count for lunch.

 

 

Past Events:


The Net Generation as Harbingers of Change: Implications for Higher Education 
October 8th, 4:15 pm
Hamilton College, Clinton New York
Science Center-Kennedy Auditorium (G027) Campus Map

The Net Generation seems inseparable from technology, text messaging, Googling, IMing, and playing games while listening to iPods. Although technology may be what we notice first, there are much deeper changes underneath, such as the emergence of a participatory culture, where amateurs can be experts, and material is repurposed, remixed, rated and shared instantly, worldwide. Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, collaboration, learning and scholarship—all reshaping the educational landscape. This session goes behind the technology to the deeper changes that challenge our colleges and universities.

Diana Oblinger, president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, is also an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University. Oblinger serves on a variety of boards including the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and chairs the National Visiting Committee for NSF's National Science Digital Library project. A frequent keynote speaker and prolific author, Oblinger is also the co-author the award winning book What Business Wants from Higher Education.

Sponsored by  HILLgroup, Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and Africana Studies.
It is made possible by funds from the NITLE's IIF Grant to the Moving Images Collaborative, the Africana Studies Program and Hamilton's Dean of Faculty.

View Diana Oblinger's PowerPoint presentation at
http://academics.hamilton.edu/Oblinger/DianaOblinger.htm

New Faculty Orientation
HILLgroup representatives met with New Faculty on Thursday, August 21st in the new Oral Communication Center to raise awareness of course support services available to them.

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. 

 

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