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Media Scholarship
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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. This SIG consists of a series of case study presentations of student-authored digital media scholarship that was guided by faculty and supported by instructional technologists and librarians. Each student presentation will be followed by a 20-30 minute panel discussion of the work in the broader context of what was necessary to reach that outcome from all involved (student, professor, technologist, librarian). We will focus on media literacy, learning models, evaluation criteria, and the resources necessary for success.
Participants will engage in discussions following each presentation. We also ask participants to offer ideas, examples, and approaches to development of multimodal assignments at their institutions.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Janet Simons from Hamilton College, David Baird from Colgate University and Chris Watts from St. Lawrence University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
UMASS Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor
Amherst, MA
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Special instructions:
Getting to the Campus Center Parking Garage… From Massachusetts Avenue (after exiting from Route 116) At the second set of lights turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue – Boyden Gymnasium is on the corner of Commonwealth & Massachusetts Avenues. At the next set of lights turn right onto Campus Center Way and proceed up Campus Center Way – The entrance to the Campus Center Parking Garage is at the top of the hill on the right.
Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage, pick up your parking pass at the registration desk and pay $5 when leaving.
Park on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and walk thru the hallway into the Student Center and go down to the first floor.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $115
Non-Members: $240
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 – 9:30am Recommendations from the Media Scholarship Project
Speakers:
Janet Simons, Assoc. Dir. Instructional Technology and Co-Director Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Hamilton College
Dave Baird, Director of Academic Technologies, Colgate University
"Approaches to student media scholarship and collaboration as a key element" Presentation of the Media Scholarship project with emphasis on the recommendations from the study and highlights of a few "key" points.
9:30am – 10:30am Hamilton College Course Case Study Presentation and Panel Discussion
Speakers:
Angel David Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Hamilton College
Kristin Strohmeyer, Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Library Marketing/Outreach, Hamilton College
Gabriela Arias, Student, Hamilton College
Krista Siniscarco, Graphic Design Instructional Technologist, Hamilton College
Examination of Afro-Latino culture and history, developing a broad historical overview while focusing on the continuing demographic changes of the present generation in and across the Americas. Exposure to a variety of historical, literary, and artistic sources, and the several perspectives of important scholars and theorists permit students a critical introduction to the works and ideas that have formed the core of the growing field in Afro-Latino/a Studies. Using both new and old forms of media as tools for communicating ideas, each student in this course created a unique postcard addressing the question, “Does race still matter in the U.S.?” from a personal perspective. As a group the students crafted an exhibition description that accompanied a public exhibit of the postcards in the library. In both projects, students were challenged to demonstrate an understanding of visual media as a tool for social justice.
10:30am – 10:45am Break
10:45am – 11:45am Colgate University Course Case Study Presentation and Panel Discussion
Speakers:
Barbara Regenspan, Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of Educational Studies, Colgate University
Emily Casey, Student in the Masters in Teaching Program, Colgate University
Danielle Smith, Student in the Masters in Teaching Program, Colgate University
Ray Nardelli, Director of the Digital Media Group, Colgate University
During January, 2010, the MAT (Master's Arts and Teaching) programs at Colgate University offered a course called ‘Critical and Media Literacies’ for our Master’s level student teachers in English, History, and Physics. Students studied media literacy in the context of approaches to the teaching of high school level language arts (integrated with other content area knowledge) that respond to issues of social, cultural, and economic power as they influence both student competence and the curriculum itself. We will present and offer rationale for student products in both digital storytelling and media decoding that are situated in the rich social and aesthetic critique we developed during the course.
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm – 1:45pm Comparison of Structural Approaches to Multimodal Course Design in the NITLE Media Scholarship Case Studies
Discussion led by:
Christopher Watts, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology, St. Lawrence University
Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University
Media-rich assignments can function in a wide variety of ways within their respective courses; serving as the main course, a garnish, or anything in between. The discussants will describe assignments in the context of specific courses, examining the relationships among the content, technology, and learning. http://academics.hamilton.edu/mediascholarship/index.cfm?PATH=casestudies.html
1:45pm – 2:45pm Participant Discussion of Media Scholarship
Facilitators:
Dave Baird, Director of Academic Technologies Colgate University
Janet Simons, Assoc. Dir. Instructional Technology and Co-Director Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Hamilton College
Chris Watts, Assistant Professor of Music and Director, St. Lawrence University Newell Center for Arts Technology
Stephanie Wong, Student, Hamilton College
In this interactive session, participants will share individual and intercampus approaches to supporting media scholarship. Discussion will focus on ideas for promoting and supporting media based assignments, media literacy, and supporting student/faculty digital scholarship.
1) Audience questions about media scholarship by students in courses?
2) Identification of campus based approaches to student media scholarship. In this interactive session, participants will share their approaches to supporting media scholarship on their campuses. Discussion will focus on ideas for promoting and supporting media based assignments, media scholarship by students, obstacles and potential solutions.
2:45pm Closing Remarks and Evaluation 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:
Angel David Nieves
Angel David Nieves is an associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. Nieves completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. His forthcoming book, 'We Shall Independent Be:' African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections, most recently in Black Geographies and the Politics of Place on Africadian (Afro-Canadian) forced removals. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek. Nieves' scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in cities across the Global South from New Orleans to Johannesburg, South Africa.
Speaker:
Barbara Regenspan
Barbara Regenspan. Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of Educational Studies. Barbara Regenspan is an educational studies professor at Colgate University who teaches cultural, psychological and political foundations of education and also works with student teachers in social justice-focused teacher education, specializing in multiple perspective secondary social studies and English education. Her research focuses on the parallel nature of arts-based multiple perspective social education, including critical and media literacies, for those who will teach and for their students of all ages.
Speaker:
Christopher Watts
Christopher Watts, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Newell Center for Arts Technology, 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:
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 Thomas Simons
Janet Thomas Simons is Associate Director of Instructional Technology at Hamilton College and Co-Director Digital Humanities Initiative. Her role includes faculty outreach, faculty development, course design, identification and research of technologies appropriate to research projects and learning goals. Current activities include collaboration with Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities on the NITLE funded Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts project and co-directing the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College with Angel David Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies.
Speaker:
Krista Siniscarco
Krista Siniscarco works with faculty and students to provide planning and support for the use of multimedia technologies at Hamilton College. Krista specializes in graphics support including scanning, printing and the use of graphics software. Krista has a background in graphic arts and her primary support areas include large format printing, digital video editing, and digital image manipulation. Most recently, Krista has become the ITS liaison to the Studio Art Department, working closely with faculty and students in the visual arts to develop the digital arts curriculum and manage the Art Department Digital Lab.
Speaker:
Kristin Strohmeyer
Kristin Strohmeyer is a Reference Librarian and the Coordinator of Library Marketing/Outreach at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Kristin is the departmental liaison for psychology, many humanities departments and history, providing instruction and research assistance to those faculty and students. Along with Janet Simons and Professor John O’Neill, she participated in the summer 2002 Mellon workshop, Talking about Technopedagogy, held at Bryn Mawr College, co-developing a course focusing on film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels. She is alsoa member of the HILLgroup, the Information Commons Committee, and is actively involved in New Faculty and New Student Orientation. She currently serves on the ALA Conference Program Coordinating Team representing all ALA Roundtables, is past-president of the Eastern New York Chapter of ACRL, and is a member of the American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table. Kristin received her B.A. in English Literature and Medieval History from Potsdam College in New York, and her M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston.
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.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Campus Center Hotel located right on campus.
Rooms are reserved under Block Number NER03C, the rate is $90 per night. The room block will be released on March 8.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-413-549-6000 ext 78047
For additional information go to:
http://www.aux.umass.edu/hotel/
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