CONTENTS for March 22, 2000

1. Summer 2000 Environmental Opportunities for Students, Faculty and Staff
2. Register now for summer technology workshops
3. Featured ACS Technology Fellowship: The Nietzsche Hypertext Project
4. ACS Information Fluency Guidelines draft available for comments
5. Leslie Lindsey joins ACS as Technology Center Coordinator
6. ACS Archaeology course now in progress
7. Centenary and Millsaps offer collaborative "Medium and Message" course
8. New list for Faculty Developers
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SUMMER 2000 ENVIRONMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF

I. ACS International Environmental Studies Programs:

For more information about these programs, visit our website: http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/summer2000/international.html

II. Environmental Research and Internship Opportunities

To broaden students' opportunities for environmental experience and learning, and to guarantee sustainable impact, the ACS environmental program offers a variety of broad-based internships. Visit our website to find out more about this years' sponsors, internship descriptions, and benefits (deadlines extended): http://www.colleges.org/~enviro/summer2000/internships.html

REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS

The following workshops will be offered at the ACS Technology Center in Summer 2000. Travel and room/board will be covered for successful applicants. Deadline for application: May 1, 2000 or when filled!

June 7-11, 2000: Technology Support Workshop [open to ACS staff and faculty who provide technology support to faculty, including faculty who provide tech. support within their department or division ]

June 21-25, 2000: Computer-based Physics Labs [open to ACS physicists and physics lab technicians]

June 28-July 2, 2000: Educational Technologies [open to all ACS faculty and staff with some web development experience]

July 5-9, 2000: Effective Use of Technology in the Music Curriculum [open to ACS music faculty and staff]

July 14-17, 2000: On-line Molecular Visualization Using Chemscape Chime [open to ACS chemists, biochemists, and molecular/cell biologists and anyone interested in molecular visualization]

For further information and application forms, please see http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/ and click on "Workshop Descriptions".

FEATURED ACS TECHNOLOGY FELLOWSHIP: THE NIETZSCHE HYPERTEXT PROJECT

This semester, freshmen enrolled in "Exploring Human Experience," a two-semester "Core Course" at the University of Richmond, began working with a Web-based hypertext based on parts of a work by Friedrich Nietzsche (http://www.richmond.edu/~core/nietzsche). Through three brief sections of Nietzsche's _On the Genealogy of Morals_, the hypertext helps students read Nietzsche more accurately and thoughtfully, to see connections between the Genealogy and other Core texts, but not to explain Nietzsche's writing.

Development of this course was funded in part by an ACS Technology Fellowship. Participating faculty and staff are Joe Essid, jessid@richmond.edu (Writing Center), with Marcia Whitehead (Boatwright Library), Martin Ryle (History) and Daniel Hocutt (Governor's School)

ACS INFORMATION FLUENCY GUIDELINES DRAFT AVAILABLE FOR COMMENTS

A task force working on proposed guidelines for information fluency has completed their first draft, and we are eager to receive feedback from ACS faculty members and library and IT staff. You can download this document from the ACS Information Fluency home page: http://www.colleges.org/~if. Please log into our information fluency discussion forum and add your comments to the Guidelines conference. There is a link to this forum on the IF home page. If you do not already have a login, you can easily create one for yourself from the main page. Or write to if@colleges.org for assistance. We hope to hear from you about this important issue soon!

LESLIE LINDSEY JOINS ACS AS TECHNOLOGY CENTER COORDINATOR

Our newest ACS staff member, Leslie Lindsey, started with ACS as the Technology Center Coordinator on March 1. Leslie comes to ACS from Southwestern University's Information Technology Services, where she managed the ITS office. At the ACS Tech Center (located at Southwestern) she will be responsible for managing Tech Center facilities, coordinating workshops and other events, communications about ACS Technology programs and general technology program support. Leslie can be reached at (512) 863-1603 or via email at leslie@colleges.org.

ACS ARCHAEOLOGY COURSE NOW IN PROGRESS

ACS is holding its inter-institutional collaborative course in Archaeology for the second time this spring. In addition to six ACS institutions (Birmingham-Southern, Millsaps, Rhodes, Rollins, Trinity and Southwestern), we have participants from DePauw University and the College of the Holy Cross. Participants download course materials from the course web site, then students respond to questions on the readings and participate in discussions online via the ACS WebBoard, which also has a chat room where students can meet to conduct real-time discussions. Each Tuesday afternoon students and faculty meet for live lecture and discussion. This year, the primary lecturer can be heard via live audio streaming, while others participate by viewing images and text on the WebBoard and asking questions using the WebBoard's chat room. As was the case last year, students will meet this June in Turkey, where they will have a chance to put into practice what they learned in the course by actually participating in the excavation, field survey, epigraphic survey, geophysical and paleobotanical surveys, paleozoological study and artifact registry for the HacImusalar Project, a large, multi-disciplinary archaeological project located in southwestern Turkey.

For more information, please visit the course home page, http://www.colleges.org/~turkey. Here you will see course materials, movies of students working on the site last summer, QuickTime VR's of the site itself and a link to the WebBoard. Don't hesitate to log into the WebBoard as a guest to read student discussions and look at class outlines and slides, or tune into our live Tuesday broadcasts!

CENTENARY AND MILLSAPS OFFER COLLABORATIVE "MEDIUM AND MESSAGE" COURSE

About 40 students enrolled in "Medium and Message: Reading Culture Through Art and Artifact"--an internet-based course at Centenary and Millsaps studying the cultures of ancient Babylonia, fifth-century Athens, and medieval York--recently took a day-long field trip to Poverty Point in northeast Louisiana. According to the instructors, Centenary faculty Steve Shelburn (English) and Susan Brayford (Religion) and Millsaps Classics and Comp. Lit. professor Michael Gleason, the point of the local expedition was to help balance the sometimes alienating effects of the internet. Brayford noted that the field trip helped to confirm the Medium and Message course's approach to its subject matter. "The inductive approach to learning that the Medium and Message highlights offers, to some students in the class, a degree of liberation from more traditional teaching methods. And our students are gaining confidence in their own interpretive abilities as the semester goes on."

Most of the classwork for the Medium and Message course is conducted though the WebBoard asynchronous conferences, with some experimentation with the synchronous "chat" feature . The Medium and Message course is the product of a pilot program funded by the ACS through a grant from the Mellon Foundation and led by George Newtown, Professor of English at Centenary. For more information, visit the course's web page at http://www2.centenary.edu/m&m.

NEW LIST FOR FACULTY DEVELOPERS

Many staff and faculty who serve in faculty development positions have already subscribed to the "FACDEV" list -- if you are not among them, why not join us? This list was started by Sandra Chadwick of Rollins College, and has now been updated to include participants in Chadwick's very successful conference earlier this month. Anyone who plays a role in faculty development at a liberal arts college is welcome to join the conversation! Just send the message 'subscribe facdev' (without the quotes) to majordomo@colleges.org.

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