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Are Digital Images Changing Teaching in Liberal Arts Colleges?
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How are digital images being used in teaching and research within liberal arts colleges? Are the dynamics and processes of teaching and learning changing at all through the deployment of more flexible and reusable digital images? The National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), in collaboration with Wesleyan University engaged educational consultant David Green to survey and document this diverse and frequently innovative practice on the campuses of 32 NITLE affiliated liberal arts colleges in the northeast, as well as Yale and Harvard.
Participants will find out how digital images are currently used at these schools, as evidenced in statistics, anecdotes and examples of methods, manipulating tools and delivery systems being employed in the classroom and beyond in the campus-wide learning environment.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Dan Schnaidt of Wesleyan University
Date/Time:
Monday, April 24, 2006
9:00am - 4:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center, Third Floor - Ballroom
Parking is at the Hogan Campus Center
Worcester, MA
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NERCOMP Members: $80
Non-Members: $180
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 10:30am The Use of Digital Images in Teaching Today
Speaker: David Green, Principal, Knowledge Culture.
Discussion of key findings from the survey and interviews conducted at the 35 institutions participating in this study. Themes, sometimes addressed with guest speakers, will include: forms of active student engagement with images; images and language learning; the disappearing textbook; digital imaging centers and others.
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Digital Image Resource Development
A key issue for faculty and their visual resource support team in using digital images in the classroom is the ability to find just the right image in a good format and resolution together with sufficient metadata to make it usable and re-usable. This session looks at how an established museum is making images available in digital form for educational use; how maps in digital form are becoming an increasingly rich resource in classrooms; and how a national digital library of scientific resources is collecting, developing and disseminating images for use by science faculty.
Speaker: Susan Chun, General Manager for Collections Information Planning, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Getting it Right: How Well Can Image Suppliers Determine and Meet the Image Requirements of College and University Users?
A report on some of the Metropolitan Museum's efforts to understand and meet the image demands of faculty, students, and scholars in a changing environment.
Speaker: John Saylor, Director of Collection Development for the National Science Digital Library
John will introduce the NSDL and the collection development and dissemination of its resources, with a focus on images. He will address the role of the Open Archive Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting in collecting and distributing NSDL resources.
Speaker: Patrick McGlamery, Director, Library Information Technology Services,
University of Connecticut Libraries
Maps, GIS and spatial data: Maps Entering the Classroom in New Ways: Supplying the New Demand:
How are maps, aerial photography and geospatial imagery affecting scholarly research by enabling the processing of the image at the scholar's workstation?
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Creating & Managing Institutional Digital Image Collections
Given the increased availability of digital image resources, how can an institution best help its faculty manage their own collections and what should the relationship be between these evolving, often makeshift personal collections and a central or federated body of institutional collections?
Speaker: Mary Litch, Instructional Technology Specialist, Yale University
Supporting Faculty in Developing and Deploying a Personal Digital Image Collection:
Some faculty are opting to create large personal digital image collections combining images from multiple sources for use in teaching and research. At Yale, there is institutional support for faculty in this process. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of this trend, both for the individual faculty member and the institutional collections?
Speaker: Elisa Lanzi, Director, Imaging Center, Smith College Dept. of Art
Gather Ye Images: Negotiating Multiple Collections for Teaching:
Images are everywhere, but how do faculty navigate the sea of licensed content, the web, local image databases, and personal collections to develop curricular content? Lanzi will discuss current practices, strategies, and challenges at a liberal arts college.
2:00pm – 2:15pm Break
2:15pm – 4:00pm Critical Literacies
What are “critical literacies” and how and when should they be taught? Students enter college bathed in a wash of digital images and digital media and faculty often assume they have a facility with these new forms. While faculty are often in awe of their students’ technological knowledge, it soon becomes apparent that this does not translate into an ability to critique and “read” digital images, nor to be able to create articulate media works.
Speaker: Christopher Watts, Director, Newell Center for Arts Technology, St Lawrence University
Critical Literacies:
A report on one institution’s efforts to think strategically about how to advance the teaching of critical literacies across the curriculum. These initiatives run top-down, bottom-up, and, most importantly, sideways.
Speaker: Flip Phillips, Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, Skidmore College
Visual Story Telling, Grammar, Cognitive Aesthetics and “Design:
Good science consists of more than compelling analytic integration and testing of ideas. If the underlying ideas aren't communicated clearly or, more importantly, compellingly, great ideas can be lost in the 'noise' of information. Clearly, this can work both ways- bad ideas can be 'over-presented', so how do we deal with this conundrum? I would propose that all students of science would be well served by introduction to visual story telling skills from the communication and analytic points of view.
Speaker: Erika Rundle, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College
Teaching Visual Rhetoric:
How can digitial images become an integral aspect of first-year college courses on critical thinking? Examples from a class taught at Dartmouth College in 2004 demonstrate how students learned to "read" visual images for ideological content, and how the skills they developed intersected with traditional approaches to reading and writing.
Speaker: John Knecht, Professor of Art & Art History and Film & Media Studies, Colgate University
The Threat of Media Illiteracy:
How do we as citizens of the Twenty First Century know what we know? How can media literacy be incorporated as part of our educational core from kindergarten to graduate school?
4:00pm End
Speaker:
David Green
David Green is the principal of Knowledge Culture, assisting cultural and academic organizations maximize their digital resources and publishing Knowledge Culture News. Recent clients include the Canadian Heritage Information Network, OCLC, the International Foundation for Art Research, Innodata Isogen, Inc, Wesleyan University and the Center for Educational Technology. From 1996 to 2003, he was the founding executive director of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a coalition that networked across the Big Five cultural communities (Libraries, Archives, Museums, Arts Organizations, and Scholarly Societies), providing leadership and vision in the creation of an increasingly interoperable body of cultural resources online. As executive director, he published the NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, co-organized an influential Computer Science & Humanities initiative, and produced the Copyright & Fair Use Town Meetings across the country (1997-2003). David Green has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Council for George Eastman House, and sits on the College Art Association’s Committee for Intellectual Property. His paper “Sustaining Digitization Programs in the Post New Economy – An Examination of Ecommerce, Digital Rights Management and Electronic Distribution,” will shortly be published by the Canadian Heritage Information Network.
Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Watts
Dr. Christopher Watts is the Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology at St. Lawrence University. A composer of electronic music and sometime multimedia artist, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2002. He is especially interested in the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary arts curricula and facilities; and the role that technology can play in facilitating the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. As Director of the NCAT, Watts is charged with building a program that meets the technological needs of the individual arts departments while also enabling them to build bridges among themselves and across the wider campus. He teaches or co- teaches a number of interdisciplinary courses, including Collaboration Across the Arts, The Physics and Perception of Music, and All Your Art Are Belong to Us: an interdisciplinary exploration of postmodernism.
Speaker:
Dr. Mary Litch
Dr. Mary Litch entered academia as a philosophy professor and was an early adopter of instructional technology. Now an instructional technology specialist, Mary specializes in helping faculty at Yale develop and deploy personal digital image collections in support of instruction and research.
Speaker:
Elisa Lanzi
Elisa Lanzi is an art information specialist working with visual collections, libraries, and museums. Her interests include metadata, standards, and digital imaging. Elisa is currently Director of the Imaging Center at Smith College, where she is involved in building digital collections and tools for teaching and learning. Prior to her position at Smith, she was a founding partner of Lanzi/Warren Associates. She worked with clients to help them develop best practices for cultural heritage documentation. Lanzi was manager of the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus and is the author of Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information. As chair of the Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee she initiated the VISION project, a collaborative demonstration database for visual resources material, and the VRA Core Categories, a descriptive standard for cataloging images. Currently she is an Editor for Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Works and their Images, to be published by ALA this spring. Elisa is a Past-President of the Visual Resources Association and active in numerous professional organizations, where she has presented at national and international venues. Lanzi holds a degree in English/Art History and has a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University at Albany.
Speaker:
Erika Rundle
Erika Rundle is an assistant professor of theatre arts at Mount Holyoke College, where she teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and performance studies. Previously, she taught at Yale University and Dartmouth College. Rundle writes about intersections of theatre and science, particularly dramatic theory and evolutionary theory. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Primate Dramas: Kinship and the Evolutionary Stage." Rundle also works as a freelance dramaturg, translator, and performer.
Speaker:
Flip Phillips
Flip Phillips is an Associate Professor who joined this department in 1998. He possesses a somewhat heterogeneous background, including stints as a professional musician and as an animator & technical director at Pixar. Having received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology from The Ohio State University, he covers such courses as quantitative and experimental psychology, perception, and the psychology of aesthetic experience. Currently, his research centers on the perception of solid shape, perception of texture, and the psychology of aesthetics.
Speaker:
John Knecht
John Knecht has been a practicing film and video artist since 1973. His exhibitions include one person screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Arsenal Kino in Berlin; The London Film Coop; The California Institute for the Arts; The Collective For Living Cinema, and The Millennium Film Work Shop in New York. Recent video screenings and installations include the 2005 Viennale, International Film and Video Festival in Vienna, Austria in October; The Tou Scene Contemporary Art Center in Stavanger, Norway also in October; the 2005 and 2004 Dallas Video Festivals; “Beyond In”the 2005 Biennial exhibition organized by the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY; The 2004 Everson Museum Biennial in Syracuse, New York; The Sub Station in Singapore; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, New York; and the D.U.M.B.O. Video Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Knecht’s films and videos have also been included in the Edinburgh Film Festival; the Berlin Film Festival; The World Wide Film Festival in the Hague; the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany; the Viper Festival in Basel, Switzerland and Hall Walls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York. Knechts’s films and videos are in the collection of The Queens Museum in New York; California Institute For the Arts; The School of the San Francisco Art Institute; Hartford Art School; the Experimental Television Center and numerous private collections.
John Knecht holds the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies Chair at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York where has been teaching since 1981. He served as Chairman of the Art and Art History department from 1991- 1999. Knecht has also taught in the Semiotics Department at Brown University as a Visiting Lecturer in 1980; and as an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma from 1974-1978. Knecht served as a member of the Board of Governors of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research from 1993-1999; the Advisory Board at the Drawing Center in New York 1989-1991; Board of Directors at Sculpture Space, Utica, New York 1992-1995; Executive Board of The Collective For Living Cinema, New York 1980-1983. The Artists Advisory Committee, at the New York Foundation for the Arts 1997-2001. Knecht has been the recipient of an “Artists Fellowship in Computer Arts in 1997, and in Video Art in 1989 from the New York Foundation For The Arts; a Jerome Foundation “Individual Filmmaker” Award’ 1979; A “New Forms Fellowship” from the Rockefeller Foundation (shared with Les LeVeque) in 1990 among, other awards and residencies.
Knecht received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh in 1972 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Idaho State University in 1974. He served with the Ninth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1967-68.
Speaker:
John Saylor
John Saylor has been the Director of the Engineering Library at Cornell University since 1988. He has been involved in many digital library efforts including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Synthesis Coalition from 1990-1995 and was co-PI of Cornell University's portion of the core integration grant from NSF to build the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) from 2000 through September 2002. Currently he is on 80% leave from the Engineering and Computer Science Library while serving as Director of Collection Development for the NSDL (http:/nsdl.org) through September 2006 and is also PI of an IMLS funded Digital Library called Kinematics Models of Design Digital Library (KMODDL) http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu
Speaker:
Patrick McGlamery
Patrick McGlamery is the Director, Library Information Technology Services at the University of Connecticut Libraries. He served as the Map Librarian for the Libraries from 1980 to 2004. He is a frequent speaker nationally and internationally in the map library community.
Related Media Files:
DGreen.Handout.pdf
NercompHandoutLanzi.doc
nercomp06-win.ppt
critlit.pdf
NSDL_NERCOMP.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
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 April 9, 2006.
For additional information go to:
http://www.comfortinn.com
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