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Media Scholarship
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In the past year, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University, supported by a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund grant, have collaborated to develop interdisciplinary assignment models that promote media scholarship by students across the curriculum. These efforts are an attempt to capitalize on student interest in digital media with the goal of deepening their engagement with course content. Further, we seek to provide faculty with the necessary frameworks with which to evaluate multimodal student projects. This SIG is our attempt to broaden these discussions and showcase examples of media scholarship from multiple schools in the Northeast.
Participants will engage in discussions that follow a series of presentations of student-authored digital media scholarship that was guided by faculty and supported by instructional technologists and librarians. Discussion will focus on media literacy, learning models, evaluation criteria, and the resources necessary for success.
Workshop Organizer/Host: David Baird of Colgate University and Janet Simons of Hamilton College
Date/Time:
Monday, February 02, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center
Third Floor - Ballroom
Worcester, MA
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Parking is at the Hogan Campus Center
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $96
Non-Members: $221
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am – 9:30am Introductions and Description of Collaborative Approaches to Student Media Scholarship
Speaker: Dave Baird, Director of Academic Technologies, Colgate University
9:30am – 9:45am Jazz, Jezebels and Gigolos: The 1920s in Berlin and New York
Speakers:
Mihaela Petrescu, Assistant Professor of German, Hobart William-Smith
Kelsey Rice, Junior History Major, Hamilton College
To supplement the study of film in 1920s Berlin and New York, Mihaela Petruscu's course contains five projects, including a typed analysis of a clip from Asphalt (1929), a voice-over commentary of a self-selected clip, the creation of a media folder about the Flapper/New Woman, a multimedia storyboard, a media folder on the representation of race, and a final project of a video recording on the contemporary fascination with the 1920s.
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/showcase/cpaction.cfm?ProjectGroupID=14&MediaLit=%22yes%22
9:45am – 10:00am From Digital Storytelling To Multimodal Criticism - The Marrow of African American Narratives
Speakers:
Kira DesJardens, Junior, Hamilton College
Vincent Odamtten, Professor of English, Hamilton College
The use of digital storytelling has grown out of what may be characterized as a need to insert the unauthorized narrative into the dominant discourse. The basis of the intervention has been to give voice to the voiceless or the barely heard of our social milieu. In this respect, it has been akin to a primer, the introduction to the ongoing experience of learning to read and write – communicate intelligently. In the context of our college experience, we need to move our students from the primer stage to a more self-conscious, critical and authoritative stage.
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/showcase/cpdetails.cfm?CsProjID=58
10:00am – 10:30am Panel discussion: Analysis of Content, Culture, and Form
Panelists:
Vincent Odamtten, Professor of English, Hamilton College
Mihaela Petrescu, Assistant Professor of German, Hobart William-Smith
Kelsey Rice, Junior History Major, Hamilton College
Janet Simons, Instructional Technologist, Hamilton College
Eve Stevens, Senior, Hamilton College
10:30am – 10:45am Break
10:45am – 11:00am Bejing Documentary Projects
Speaker: John Crespi, Luce Assistant Professor of Chinese, Colgate University
See http://computing.colgate.edu/itsl/beijing/default.htm
11:00am – 11:15am Marginalized Conflicts Podcast Series.
Speakers:
Tyrell Haberkorn, Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace & Conflict Studies, Colgate University
Colgate Student.
In fall 2008, members of the Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies course at Colgate University embarked on a collaborative project to understand and interrogate 20th century histories of war and violence, as well as its resolutions. As part of this endeavor, students and faculty analyze and disseminate information about marginalized conflicts. By ‘marginalized’ we mean conflicts left unaddressed – either in our class examination or in the broader frame of existing historical knowledge. We aim to shock, surprise, and provoke reflection.
See http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=3731
11:15 am – 11:45am Panel discussion: Immersion & Voice
Panelists:
John Crespi, Luce Assistant Professor of Chinese, Colgate University
Tyrell Haberkorn, Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace & Conflict Studies, Colgate University
Clarence Maybee, Assistant Professor and Information Literacy Librarian, Colgate University
Ray Nardelli, Digital Media Manager, Colgate University
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch (included)
12:45pm – 1:00pm Critical Literacies and Collaboration Across the Arts.
Speaker: Chris Watts, Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology and Assistant Professor of Music, St. Lawrence University
What do potential employers want to see in our liberal arts graduates? According to an AAC&U survey, two of the things they want are 1) the ability to work collaboratively and 2) knowledge of concepts and new developments in science and technology. One of the places they can acquire both of these things is in an arts classroom. Collaboration Across the Arts is an interdisciplinary course that uses digital media technologies as a common ground to bring students from different backgrounds to the same table. Small groups of students work collaboratively on multimedia arts projects throughout the semester, while also stepping back for a critical look at the tools and materials that go into those projects.
1:00pm – 1:15pm Blogging Digital Media and Culture
Speaker: Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University
This combination studio/seminar course explores the major theoretical issues surrounding digital technologies and their impact on various aspects of contemporary culture including: aesthetics and perception, creative production, morality, entertainment, identity and other forms of social effects/affects. Studio projects related to readings and discussions investigate the creative potentials of blogging, digital imaging, digital video, animation and hypertext. Assignments, activities, processes and products are tracked on a class blog, and each member of the class (including the instructor) keeps a blog throughout the semester. The instructor's blog also serves as an evolving syllabus for the course.
http://blogs.stlawu.edu/digitalmedia/
1:15 pm – 1:45pm Panel discussion of Critical Literacies
Panelists:
Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University
Chris Watts, Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology and Assistant Professor of Music, St. Lawrence University
1:45 pm – Participant Discussion of Media Scholarship Approaches at Other Campuses Facilitators:
Dave Baird, Director of Academic Technologies, Colgate University
Janet Simons, Instructional Technologist, Hamilton College
Chris Watts, Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology and Assistant Professor of Music, St. Lawrence University
2:50pm – 3:00pm Closing Remarks and Surveys
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Amy Hauber
Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at St. Lawrence University
Amy teaches courses in sculpture/extended media, ceramics, and digital media. She
holds the MFA in art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In her teaching, a desire to offer opportunities for autonomous experience and expression, along with a keen interest in digital media and its impact on contemporary culture, have led her to explore new technologies with her students in creative ways. Hauber's recent solo exhibition at the Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia featured a wide variety of media, including mixed and found media works; small kinetic works; ceramic and mixed media works; light sculpture; an interactive analog photographic slide and digital video installation; and large-scale digital prints.
Speaker:
Christopher Watts
Christopher Watts, Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology and Assistant Professor of Music at St. Lawrence University.
A composer and multimedia artist, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2002. Watts is a strong advocate for the power of digital media technologies in crossing disciplines. As Director of St. Lawrence's NCAT, he is charged with helping the arts departments meet their individual curricular goals while also fostering collaborative, interdisciplinary opportunities for students, faculty, and staff across campus.
Speaker:
Clarence Maybee
Clarence Maybee, Assistant Professor and Information Literacy Librarian at Colgate University
Speaker:
David Baird
David Baird, Director of Academic Technologies at Colgate University
David completed his Ph.D. in seismology at Cornell University and has been at Colgate since 1998.
Speaker:
Janet Simons
Janet Thomas Simons is the Faculty Support Group Leader and HILLgroup project leader for Instructional Technology at Hamilton College. Her role includes faculty outreach, faculty development, course design, identification and research of innovative or specialized technologies appropriate to targeted learning goals, and coordination of academic support services to meet teaching and learning needs. Janet specializes in assignment design, digital literacy, and video production. After earning a masters degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Janet taught biology at the college level for eight years. Her efforts to incorporate technology into her courses led to enough research and troubleshooting that she decided to switch careers and work on technology in education fulltime.
Speaker:
John Crespi
John Crespi, Luce Assistant Professor of Chinese at Colgate University
Speaker:
Kelsey Rice
Kelsey Rice, Junior history major at Hamilton College. Kelsey plays cello in several Hamilton ensembles and is interested in Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, classical music, and film.
Speaker:
Kira DesJardens
Kira DesJardens, Junior biology major at Hamilton College. Kira plans to attend a graduate program in veterinary medicine after Hamilton.
Speaker:
Mihaela Petrescu
Mihaela Petrescu, Assistant Professor of German at Hobart William-Smith
Speaker:
Raymond Nardelli
Raymond Nardelli, Digital Media Manager at Colgate University
Speaker:
Tyrell Haberkorn
Tyrell Haberkorn, Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace & Conflict Studies at Colgate University
Speaker:
Vincent Odamtten
Vincent Odamtten Professor of English at Hamilton College
Vincent Odamtten joined the Hamilton faculty in 1985, after earning a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. While he specializes in African, Caribbean and African American literatures Odamtten also teaches science fiction and postcolonial criticism. He has published an acclaimed book, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (1994), and has contributed articles to a number of critical anthologies, including Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo (1998), Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Post-Colonial Narratives (1997), Of Dreams Deferred, Dead Or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (1996) and Language in Exile: Jamaican texts of the 18th & 19th Century (1990). He was the director of the Africana Studies program at Hamilton from 1990-99. In the Spring of 2007, Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko, a collection of articles edited by Odamtten, was published in England. Currently, he is researching the life and times of Togbi Sri II, Paramount Chief of the Anlo-Ewes of South-eastern Ghana, as part of a multimedia narrative project.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until January 25, 2009.
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