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NERCOMP EVENT
Developing and Using Material Culture Collections for Teaching and Learning
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Building on the experience and success of many institutions who have developed and implemented large institutional collections, this SIG will focus on the development and use of small, digital object teaching collections. Covering a full spectrum of issues, this SIG will address the unique needs and issues of digitizing and maintaining small teaching collections, share the experiences of faculty who have undertaken such an effort, explore the importance and implications of metadata in building such a collection, discuss the planning and process of actually digitizing objects for collections, and develop pedagogical strategies for using these collections in the classroom.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Ginny Jones of Vassar College
Date/Time:
Tuesday, May 19, 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: $122
Non-Members: $247
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 and Coffee
9:00am - 9:15am Icebreakers & Introductions
9:15am – 9:30am Getting Started with a Material Culture Collections for Teaching
Speaker: Ginny Jones, Academic Computing Consultant for the Social Sciences, Vassar College
In this introductory session, Ginny will share with participants what is meant by teaching collections vs typical archival or institutional collections. She will demonstrate examples of such collections and address issues such as:
• What constitutes a material culture collection?
• What is unique about a teaching collection (vs. institutional collections or other established digital image collections)?
• What kinds of collections are suited as teaching collections?
9:30am – 10:30am The Voice of Experience; Developing a Material Culture Collection for Use in the Classroom
Speakers:
Holly Hummel, Senior Lecturer and Costume Designer, Department of Drama, Vassar College
Arden Kirkland, Costume Technician, Department of Drama, Vassar College
Holly and Arden, who teach in Vassar’s Drama Department, oversee a 500+ piece historical costume collection. They have traditionally used this collection for teaching, but accessibility of the costumes has always been problematic. So together, they have developed a virtual collection of the costumes that enable students to access the collection in ways not possible otherwise. They will discuss the evolution of the collection itself, how it has been used in teaching traditionally, the challenges they have faced in making the collection virtual, and how the virtualization of the collection has impacted how they now integrate this collection resource into their curriculum.
10:30am – 10:40am Break
10:40am – 11:45am Strategies and Processes for Creating 3-d Virtual Objects
Speaker: Matthew Slaats, Academic Computing Consultant for Visual Resources, Vassar College
Just how does one go about photographing and creating virtual objects? Matthew will share with participants how to plan and implement effective digitizing processes, including setup, lighting, photography, post-production, software solutions, and record keeping strategies.
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm – 2:00pm Issues and Considerations in Developing a Digital Object Teaching Collection
Speaker: Anne Sauer, Director and University Archivist Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University
This session will be an overview of the key issues in collection development and address the challenges of implementing a flexible, yet resilient strategy when developing a small scale “teaching collections”. The unique needs of a teaching collection will be covered, as will how to assist collection owners and content specialists in developing the metadata framework.
2:00pm – 2:35pm Small Group Activity - Pedagogical Strategies in Using Digital Collections in the Classroom
Facilitated by Ginny Jones, Academic Computing Consultant, Vassar College
This session will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and imagine possible pedagogical strategies for implementing digital object collections into the curriculum.
2:35pm – 3:00pm Conclusion
Remarks, invitation for community participation and development, sharing of resources, contact and follow-up
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Arden Kirkland
Arden Kirkland currently splits her work between Vassar College (Costumer for the Drama Department), Bard College (Costume Designer for the Dance Department) and numerous other freelance projects in costume history, design, production, and education. She has taught at Vassar, Bard, Marist, Barnard, and the Powerhouse Theatre summer program at Vassar; she was formerly the Costume Shop Supervisor at Bard College and the Assistant Shop Manager at the Costume Shop for the Juilliard School. Arden received her MFA in Costume Design from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Ever since her undergraduate work at Vassar, she has continued to work as a Co-Curator of the Vassar College Costume Collection, the Drama Department's research collection of historic clothing. Her ongoing effort to create a database of Vassar’s costume collection has led to an inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional project entitled “Digital Objects in the Classroom,” to research best practice in the use of digital collections as a teaching resource.
Speaker:
Ginny Jones
Ginny Jones has been an Academic Computing Consultant at Vassar College since 1999. She holds a MS in Instructional Design from Auburn University, and has spent her entire career in higher education, including working as a community college English instructor as well as in various adminstrative capacities. As an instructional technologist at Vassar College, she provides a wide variety of support to faculty, from teaching Bb workshops to shepherding course-based projects through their development stages. As an educator, she enjoys the challenge of finding ways to use technology to enable learning experiences that might not be possible otherwise. Her work with faculty in making physical collections accessbile virtually has inspired her inner librarian and opened up a whole new area of knowledge she is thoroughly enoying learning about.
Speaker:
Holly Hummel
Holly Hummel has been a faculty member and costume designer in the Vassar College Drama Department since 1981. As well as designing the costumes for departmental productions and working with student designers, she teaches courses in the areas of costume design, fashion history and pattern drafting. She has a particular interest in historic fashion and has lectured and written about a collection of garments at Vassar, which she established, many dating back to the 19th century: the Vassar College Costume Collection in Memory of Ronni Carol Kleinman and the Nancy Brandon Allen Collection.
Speaker:
Matthew Slaats
Matthew Slaats, a native of Wisconsin, completed his MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and his BA in Archaeology from the University of Evansville in 1999. His artistic career has a vast array of interests focusing around interactivity, performance, installation, video, and sound. Presently, he supports the intersection between media and teaching in collaboration with the Visual Resources Library and the Art Department at Vassar, though he is hoping to branch out to create dialogue across disciplines.
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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 May 18, will be released on April 20, 2009. Standard queen rooms are available for $150 per night.
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