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NERCOMP EVENT
Multimedia Project Support for Faculty and Students
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Today’s students who grew up with media and technology are producing multimedia projects for many purposes on college campuses. Some institutions are realizing that a critical skill for graduating students is the ability to communicate in a variety of modes, including through multimedia. To that end, some faculty are starting to assign multimedia projects in their classes. Additionally, some faculty are beginning to use multimedia course materials to convey concepts and appeal to their students. These are quickly growing trends that IT departments are learning to support.
Attendees at this workshop will learn how institutions are supporting faculty and students in the use of multimedia and will get ideas for how they can meet the needs for multimedia support on their campuses. Topics covered include multimedia instruction sessions for students, multimedia facilities, multimedia software support for faculty, and general multimedia support considerations. Presentations will include useful information for those who are just starting to support multimedia and for those who are already supporting multimedia and are looking for new approaches.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Amy Ricci of Johnson and Wales University
Date/Time:
Thursday, April 16, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Special instructions:
Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $128
Non-Members: $253
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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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:10am Introduction and Overview
Amy Ricci, Johnson and Wales University
9:10am – 10:10am The Student Multimedia Design Center: The Facility and Resources to Support Multimedia Projects
Speaker: Shelly McCoy, Associate Librarian and Head, Student Multimedia Design Center, University of Delaware Library
The Student Multimedia Design Center is a 13,000 sq. ft. facility housed in the University of Delaware Library and co-managed by the Library and Information Technologies. It contains over 70 computers with multimedia software, 6 studios, and over 35 different types of equipment kits for loan. This session will focus on the physical facilities of the Center, including the project background, construction challenges, and use of space by students and faculty, as well as the resources and support provided to students, faculty, and staff. Participants will learn from our lessons learned in planning the facility and the adjustments made in support throughout the two years that the facility has been open.
10:10am – 10:20am Break
10:20am – 11:20am Supporting Multimedia in Teaching & Learning at WPI
Speakers:
Kate Beverage, Manager, Technology for Teaching & Learning Support Services
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Erin DeSilva, Instructional Technology Specialist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Svetlana Nikitina, Ph.D & Ed.M., Assistant Professor of English, Coordinator of Interdisciplinary First Year Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Exploring information through the use of multimedia content is becoming more widespread in teaching and learning, especially at WPI. With editing technologies becoming more accessible, affordable and user-friendly, the Millennial generation of students are more comfortable than ever before in expressing their research through multimedia. Several faculty at WPI have chosen to introduce multimedia research projects into their classes, using video editing tools (e.g. Camtasia and Adobe Premiere), website authoring tools (e.g. Google Sites), photo editing tools (e.g. Photoshop and Flickr), and multimedia from royalty-free resources. Staff in the Academic Technology Center support these classes by working with faculty to address needs and define assignment context, then introducing students to ways in which WPI can support them as they develop their multimedia projects. In this session, the presenters will share their approach to supporting multimedia projects across the disciplines and show examples of multimedia projects that WPI students have produced. Professor Nikitina will share her experience assigning multimedia projects to students in her Digital Literature Seminar and discuss the technological supports needed for creative writing in the digital mode, evaluation of student work, and the benefits of teamwork in a technology-based class.
11:20am – 12:15pm Camtasia Studio: Creating Rich Multimedia Instructional Materials
Speakers:
Donna Mellen, FDC Academic Technology Coordinator, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Mitchell Shuldman, Librarian and Head of The Media Center, University of Massachusetts
The goal of this project was to introduce Camtasia, a video-based screen capture and editing software package, to university faculty in order to move the agenda of online and blended learning forward by helping faculty more quickly adopt the use of online rich media (audio, video, and graphics) to deliver quality instruction.
This project was a collaborative effort between the UMass Lowell Library’s Media Center and Faculty Development Center, and the Graduate School of Education’s Instructional Network. Faculty interest grew long after grant funding ended. To date over a dozen UML faculty have created, and are using, Camtasia projects in their instruction. Many are recording lectures weekly and posting them online as supplemental materials for their students. In all, faculty from nearly 20 departments created well over 100 instructional modules that are currently in use.
12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm – 2:15pm Multimedia Support for Entire Courses: Lessons Learned and Models for Growth
Speakers:
Ray Nardelli, Manager Digital Media, Colgate University
Janet Simons, Instructional Technologist, Hamilton College
Hamilton College and Colgate University both design multimedia support for entire courses of students. Our support models, though similar, contain differences that reflect differences in our organizational structure and physical facilities. In this presentation, we will highlight common goals in multimedia support and also distinguish important differences in our approaches. Components we will discuss include: faculty working through the proposed assignments before giving them, collaborative development of models of expected project outcomes, development of student media literacy, general perceptions about student technical literacies, and development of technology workflows that target the learning goals of the course within the constraints of our resources.
2:15pm – 3:00pm Group Discussion
This time will be used to discuss the challenges attendees are facing in supporting multimedia, ideas for dealing with the challenges, and other support initiatives taking place at attendees’ institutions.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Donna Mellen
Donna Mellen As the Academic Technology Coordinator for the Faculty Development Center at UMASS Lowell, Donna trains, troubleshoots, and consults about academic technology hardware and its accompanying software. The unique collaboration in particular among UML’s Faculty Development Center, the Library Media Center, and Information Technologies allows for innovative and effective development of technology initiatives throughout the university, including the widespread use and support of Camtasia. Most recently Donna has worked to standardize clicker use within UML in order to facilitate effective learning assessment and engagement practices.
Donna's background includes twenty years of experience in various environments that span corporate and educational training, work in industry, customized technology consulting, and technology education in both k-12 and higher education settings.
Speaker:
Erin DeSilva
Erin DeSilva - as an Instructional Technology Specialist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Erin DeSilva provides outreach to the WPI Community to familiarize them with academic and instructional technologies and services. She also supports multimedia projects by working with faculty and students to identify appropriate hardware and software to meet their needs, and assisting with coursework in WPI's Movie Lab. Erin holds a B.S. from Simmons College, and has worked in science and technology education at the Museum of Science, Boston and a PBS affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.
Speaker:
Janet Simons
Janet 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:
Kate Beverage
Kate Beverage is the Manager of Technology for Teaching & Learning Support Services with the Academic Technology Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kate's primary responsibility is to lead the ATC’s outreach efforts to the WPI community with regards to the use of instructional technologies in teaching and learning. She supports multimedia and other collaborative applications at WPI for use in campus-based and distance learning courses. Kate holds a B.A. in Instructional Technologies from the University of Connecticut and a M.S. in Educational Technology from Boise State University.
Speaker:
Mitch Shuldman
Mitch Shuldman, has been a media librarian on the Lowell campus for 26 years championing the academic use of technology on campus. He is the head of the University Media Center which houses a walk-in multimedia lab for faculty and student use to create digital content. He was the early designer of both the Lowell campus website as well as the first two iterations of the UMass Lowell Library’s website during the early 1990s. He has produced many of the Lowell campuses’ early recruiting videos (1980s-90s), and he has been active in collaborating with faculty and helping to develop a wide variety of instructional uses of video and other technologies on campus. Most recently he has been using video production to introduce concepts of sustainability across the academic curriculum. For many years he has been Co-Chair of the Teaching with Technology Task Force.
Speaker:
Ray Nardelli
Ray Nardelli is an Instructional Technologist and the Director of the Digital Media Group at Colgate University. With a focus on digital media, Ray has initiated and developed a campus-wide program that serves faculty, students, and departments in the creation and delivery of digital media projects. The Digital Media Group's breadth is wide as its support includes projects such as creating informational videos for the Colgate website in conjunction with the Communications
department, producing promotional videos for the Office of Admissions, highlighting campus initiatives for the Advancement office, and supporting students and faculty in curricular projects.
Speaker:
Shelly McCoy
Shelly McCoy is an Associate Librarian and Head of the Student Multimedia Design Center in the University of Delaware Library. She began employment at UD in 1999 as Coordinator, Microforms & Digital Mapping. In 2003, her unit of Microforms underwent renovation and merged with another unit, Copy Services and soon after she became department head of the new department, called Digital User Services, which also included the Library Computing site. The units in this department merged in 2007 to become one unit/department offering existing services, plus the new services of the Student Multimedia Design Center
(www.udel.edu/smdc).
Shelly is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, earning both her MLIS and a BA in English Writing (Public Relations) and English Literature there. She resides in Pennsylvania with her husband Brian and two young sons, Sean and Brandon.
Speaker:
Svetlana Nikitina
Svetlana Nikitina is currently an Assistant Professor of English (adj.) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where I teach a variety of English, American and Russian Literature courses. She also serves as lead faculty in the humanities for the University of Phoenix (Greater Boston campus). Her research interests include comparative and environmental literature, emerging forms of multimedia narrative and modernist movement in European poetry. Before coming to WPI, she served as a senior researcher on the Harvard's Graduate School of Education nationwide study of interdisciplinary learning at the pre-collegiate, collegiate and professional level. She holds Ph.D. is in Philology (Comparative Literature) from Moscow State University, and received training in Slavic, Romance and Germanic Studies. This training provided her with a solid foundation in a wide range of the humanities disciplines (linguistics, literary theory, history, and philosophy). In addition to humanities, she holds a master's degree in Human Development and Psychology (Ed.M.) from Harvard University. In 2008, she developed and taught at WPI an inquiry seminar in Digital Literature, which surveyed experimental literature (kinetic poetry, hypertext novels, narrative games, etc.) and called for student experimentation with multimedia approaches to storytelling. The seminar will be offered again in the spring of 2009.
Related Media Files:
Multimedia Camtasia.pdf
WPI_Multimedia.pdf
McCoy_Multimedia.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for April 15th, will be released on March 23, 2009. Standard queen guest rooms are available for $150 per night.
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