CONTENTS for March 8, 2005

WORKSHOPS & OPPORTUNITIES AT THE ACS TECHNOLOGY CENTER
SPRING 2005

1. Call for Papers for the Summer 2005 Issue of Transformations
   
   
2. ACSTC Announces Summer 2005 Events
   1. Planning Learning Objects
   2. Learning Objects Technology
   3. Classics Summer Seminars and Curriculum Planning
   4. Collaboration for Teaching Chinese
   5. Digital Video
   6. XML for Teaching and Research
   7. Music Tech. Workshop and New Music Festival
      
      
3. ACSTC Staff News: Roman Alexander Davis

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TRANSFORMATIONS:  WINTER ISSUE AND CFP FOR SPRING/SUMMER
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ACSTC is seeking papers for the Spring/Summer 2005 issue of Transformations, which has as its theme collaboration, both within and beyond institutional boundaries. Particular areas of interest are alliances among faculty, librarians and technologists, and formal or informal organizational structures that promote relationships among these constituencies on liberal arts campuses. Submissions are due by April 15, 2005, and may be sent to the co-editors: Bob Johnson (johnsonb@rhodes.edu) and Terry Metz, (tmetz@wheatoncollege.edu). For more information, see http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/transformations/index.php?q=node/view/82.

The winter issue of Transformations (special theme: Libraries in the Digital Age) will be available soon!

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ACSTC ANNOUNCES SUMMER 2005 TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS
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The following workshops will be offered by the ACS Technology Center in summer 2005. These workshops are open to faculty and staff at ACS and NITLE Southern Region institutions. ACSTC will pay for travel, room, and some meals for accepted applicants, and there is no fee to attend the workshops.

**DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: April 22, 2005, or when filled.**

All workshops will be held at the ACS Technology Center at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, unless specified otherwise.  For more information about these workshops and application forms, please visit http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/workshop/workshops.html or contact Jennifer Whitman, jwhitman@colleges.org.

Note on dates: the first and last dates listed for each event are travel days. All workshops begin with a reception/meal on the arrival date.

The ACSTC staff hopes to see you this summer at one or more of these events!

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1. PLANNING LEARNING OBJECTS - June 2-5
Intended Audience: Faculty, IT/Support Staff, esp. Instructional Technologists
Leader: Michael Roy, Wesleyan University
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This workshop provides an opportunity for teams of faculty and instructional technologists to plan a specific learning object project, and to also create plans for both discovering and integrating learning objects developed by others into their courses.

"Learning objects are a new way of thinking about learning content. Instead of providing all of the material for an entire course or lecture, a learning object provides material for a discrete lesson or sub-lesson within a larger course. Examples of learning objects include simulations, interactive data sets, quizzes, surveys, annotated texts, adaptive learning modules." <http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/about/index.html>

Participants in this workshop will learn about the creation, standards, reuse, distribution and evaluation of learning objects, as well as crash courses on project management and web usability. Training in the use of LOLA, a learning object exchange for facilitating the sharing of learning objects, will also be provided. Participants should come with a particular project in mind.

Participants are encouraged to enroll in the following workshop, Learning Object Technology, which will focus on implementing their projects.

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2. LEARNING OBJECT TECHNOLOGY:  FLASH, HTML, AND OTHER TOOLS - June 4-9
Intended Audience: Faculty, Librarians, IT/Support Staff
Leader: Suzanne McGinnis, Academic Technology Services Liaison, University of Richmond
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This workshop will offer an introduction to the technology needed to implement learning objects (see previous workshop). It will lay the foundation for the creation of interactive web-deliverable teaching and learning applications with Macromedia Flash. We will begin by learning the basics of Flash's animation and interactivity capabilities. Applicants must be experienced with Web browsing. HTML, Image Editing, and other tools will be included as needed for specific projects.

This workshop will be project-based, with ample time for participants to work on projects they plan in advance, and one-on-one help from Tech Center staff and student interns. Teams that include faculty, support staff and/or students who will provide ongoing technical support are encouraged to apply. All workshops are designed for both Windows and Mac users.

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3. SUNOIKISIS SUMMER SEMINARS AND CURRICULUM PLANNING - June 11-19
Intended Audience: Classics Faculty
Leaders: Prof. Catherine Connors, University of Washington and Prof. Susan Lape, University of California at Irvine
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This concurrent workshop is the sixth Summer Seminar and Curriculum Planning for the SUNOIKISIS Online Greek and Latin courses. In addition to planning curriculum, these seminars offer professional development opportunities for Classics faculty. The Latin session (June 12-14) will plan the Fall 2005 course ICLAT 393: Literature of the Neronian Period, with the assistance of Prof. Catherine Connors, University of Washington.  The Greek session (June 16-18) will plan the Fall 2005 course ICAGR 394: Literature from the Fourth Century, with the assistance of Prof. Susan Lape, University of California at Irvine. Texts may include selections from the orators (Lysias, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Isocrates), philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), or historians (Xenophon).  A joint meeting will be held June 15 to discuss other areas of collaboration in classics. Participants may attend either one of the seminars or both. These seminars are intended for all interested ACS classics faculty, in particular, those who plan to participate in the Fall 2005 on-line courses (ICCs).

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4. CHINESE COLLABORATION PLANNING MEETING - June 17-20
Intended Audience: Faculty who Teach Chinese
Facilitator:  Patricia Gray
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This initial meeting is designed to bring together professors of Chinese from a variety of institutions who are interested in using technology to build collaborations to enrich their teaching.

OBJECTIVES

• To survey the current use of technology in Chinese language classes at the institutions represented at the workshop
• To explore effective ways of using interactive exercises, video, and other types of online presentation to enrich the experience of students in the classroom and beyond.
• To identify specific projects that can be begun immediately and introduced at some level in classes in the 2005-2006 academic year
• To look toward the possibility of creating an online ICC (Inter-Institutional Collaborative Course) at some time in the future

For more information, contact Patricia Gray, gray@colleges.org

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5. DIGITAL VIDEO - June 25-30
Intended Audience: Faculty, Librarians, IT/Support Staff
Leaders: Monique Head (Morehouse College) and Vidya Ananthanarayanan (Trinity University)
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This course provides the working teacher or professional with basic theory, techniques and practice using digital video equipment. It will also introduce the principles of non-linear editing and will address the basics of graphics and composting for video. It will provide the individual with practice in the design and implementation of field based instructional techniques related to video in the classroom.

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6. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH - July 13-17
Intended Audience: Faculty, Librarians, IT/Support Staff
Leaders: Scott Hamlin, Wheaton University and Eric Jansson, ACSTC
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This workshop will explore the uses of XML for teaching, learning and research at small liberal arts colleges. Participants will receive an introduction to XML markup and focus on specific applications of XML, including the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI, http://www.tei-c.org/), XHTML, RSS, TEI, EAD (Encoded Archival Description). Participants may choose separate tracks that focus on markup of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching (TEI) or providing technical support for XML at liberal art colleges.

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7. MUSIC TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP AND FOURTH ANNUAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL -  July 26- August 1 (TO BE HELD AT Birmingham-Southern College )
Intended Audience: music faculty, librarians, and students
Facilitator: Patricia Gray, ACS Technology Center

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This workshop will focus on the building of online teaching materials and on supporting the work of faculty and student composers in the Orpheus Alliance.

The areas of concentration will be:

• Continued work on the building of online teaching modules for use in music theory and history classes.
• The production of the fourth annual ACS New Music Festival featuring works by ACS faculty, students, and guest composers. Winning compositions of the 2005 Student Composition Contest will be performed as well as several new faculty compositions written for Luna Nova, the ACS New Music Ensemble.
• A continuation of the Classics of the 20th Century concert series. Works by George Crumb, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Charles Wuorinen will
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• Presentation of student research projects with supporting multimedia.
• Sessions on selected pieces of software used by composers of electro-acoustic music.
• Workshops designed for students to help in their preparation for the graduate school application process.

For more information, contact Patricia Gray (gray@colleges.org) or visit the Orpheus Alliance Website at http://www.colleges.org/~music/.

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III. ACSTC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
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Roman Alexander Davis (son of ACSTC's Rebecca Davis and husband, Paul) was born on March 4th, 2005.  Both mother and son are healthy and doing well. Congratulations Rebecca! Rebecca will be on leave until April 18, 2005. Until then, please contact Jennifer Whitman, jwhitman@colleges.org for additional information about these workshops or other ACSTC programming.

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