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Summer 2004 Technology Workshops
The following workshops were offered by the ACS
Technology Center in summer 2004. These workshops were open to faculty
and staff at ACS member and NITLE Southern Region institutions. ACS
and the Mellon Centers Initiative paid for travel, room, and some
meals for accepted ACS applicants, and room and some meals for non-ACS
members of the Southern Region. We also
had a limited number of openings for faculty and staff from institutions
served by CET and MITC. Those served by CET contacted Amy
McGill to apply, while those served by MITC applied by contacting Nancy Millichap.
All workshops were held at the ACS Technology
Center at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, unless specified
otherwise.
Note on dates: the first and last dates listed for
each event were travel days. All workshops began with a reception/meal
on the arrival date.
Sunoikisis
Summer Seminar and Curriculum Planning - June 1-9
(For Classics faculty)
Leaders: Prof. Douglas Olson, University
of Minnesota (Greek Session); Prof. Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
(Latin Session)
This concurrent workshop was the fifth Summer
Seminar and Curriculum Planning for the SUNOIKISIS Online Greek and
Latin courses and shared training sessions with the Teach Together via
Technology workshop. The Greek session (June 2-4) planned the course
Fall 2004 ICAGR 393: Comedy, with the assistance of Prof. Douglas Olson,
University of Minnesota. The Latin session (June 6-8) planned the
course Fall 2004 ICLAT 392: Literature from the Late Republic, with
the assistance of Prof. Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania.
A joint meeting was held June 5 to discuss other areas of collaboration
in classics. Participants attended either one of the sessions or both.
These sessions were intended for all interested ACS classics faculty,
in particular those who were participating in the Fall 2004 on-line
courses (ICC's). For more information: See the Sunoikisis homepage at sunoikisis.nitle.org.
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Bioinformatics:
Microarrays Workshop - June 11-14
(Open to all. Target audience biology and chemistry faculty)
Leader: A. Malcolm Campbell, Davidson
College
The workshop was open to faculty and students from institutions which
are served by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
(NITLE). This included institutions served by The Associated Colleges
of the South Technology Center (ACSTC) at Southwestern University, The
Center for Educational Technology (CET) at Middlebury College, and The
Midwest Instructional Technology Center at Ann Arbor, Michigan (MITC).
Members served by CET and MITC went through their centers first before
submitting applications.
A. Malcolm Campbell of Davidson College led this
workshop, which was geared for biologists/chemists (but open to all).
It focused on data analysis and utilized the public domain software
called MAGIC Tool, (www.bio.davidson.edu/MAGIC).
MAGIC Tool allows the user to begin with raw data (tif files), locate
the spots (gridding), quantify the signal (segmentation), generate clusters,
explore the data, and create figures (e.g. gif files). This “tif-to-gif”
capacity of MAGIC Tool creates a complete software package that brings
genomics into the undergraduate curriculum. Because MAGIC Tool is written
in Java, it works on all computer platforms. This is an open source
project so students can continue to add functionality to MAGIC Tool.
Participants were supplied with tiff files, a User’s Guide,
an Instructor’s
Guide, and a guide to the math behind microarray analysis. The workshop
combined hands-on computer activities with background presentations.
No prior experience with microarrays was necessary, but participants
had to know about gene transcription.
View Agenda (pdf format)
Workshop
Home page
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Learning Objects, Learning Activities, and Liberal Education: Theory and
Practice of Making and Using Learning Objects - June 18-23
Leaders: Michael Roy, Wesleyan University;
Suzanne McGinnis, University of Richmond
(For Instructional Technologists and Faculty, teams encouraged)
This workshop provided an opportunity for teams of faculty and instructional
technologists to work on 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."
Wesleyan
University Learning Objects Project
Participants in this workshop learned about
the creation, standards, reuse, distribution and evaluation of learning
objects. There were tutorials on the technology needed to create
learning objects, such as Flash or digital video, 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, was also provided. Participants came
with a particular project in mind. Teams of instructional technologists
and faculty were welcome.
View Agenda (pdf format)
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Planning and Implementing Digital Collections Workshop - June 24-29
Leaders: Elizabeth Blackmer, Tom Whaley,
Hugh Blackmer, Washington & Lee University
(For faculty, librarians, staff and students; teams encouraged)
This two-part workshop was aimed at anyone who was interested in creating
a digital collection online, including faculty, library and IT staff,
and students (students had to accompany a faculty member). The goals
were to facilitate the planning process for participants who intended
to produce digital libraries, and provide training on Digital Asset Management
software. Participants were asked to bring ideas for specific collections.
Their activities during the workshop focused on their own collections.
Part 1: Planning Digital Collections - June 25-26
The creation of a digital collection with reliable
content requires careful planning and organization to effectively
reach the intended users and achieve the collection's goals. This
two-day workshop drew on many resources including the leaders'
experiences in creating and managing the Alsos
Digital Library for Nuclear Issues. Issues of organization, content,
vetting, and management were addressed. Participants' activities
focused on planning their own collections, for which they brought
specific ideas. The three workshop leaders, Elizabeth
Blackmer, Tom
Whaley and Hugh
Blackmer brought expertise from library science, computer science,
communications, as well as extensive teaching experience; time
was available for discussions about participants' own projects.
View Agenda (pdf format)
Part 2: Implementing Digital Collections - June
27-28
Once participants learned how to plan digital
collections, this follow-up training taught them about some of
the tools available for implementing their collections. ACS Tech Center
Staff demonstrated digital assets management systems and trained
participants in their use. Participants were given time to implement
their planned collection in one of these tools.
View Agenda (pdf format)
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REALIA
Project: Digital Archive for teaching modern languages and cultures
- June 24-29
(For language and library faculty and students in Russian, Spanish, French,
German and Japanese)
This concurrent workshop was the second REALIA
Project workshop which was open to Spanish, Russian, German, French,
and Japanese modern language faculty, students, and library staff. The
REALIA Project (www.realiaproject.org), is an on-line, searchable archive
of high quality media for use in teaching modern languages and cultures
in the languages. Participants were encouraged to apply in teams, including
a faculty member, librarians and student assistant from each campus.
The teams were trained in editing and cataloging images and were encouraged
to continue the work of building and cataloging their media collections
on their home campuses. In addition to working on adding to the collection,
a small group of faculty and students took the lead using the archive
materials to construct learning objects (tutorials, modules, projects).
These had grammatical objectives (such as a tutorial for action verbs),
vocabulary objectives (based on images of markets and foodstuffs in Latin
America), or critical thinking and writing objectives (a module composed
of Soviet realia in the post-Soviet world, to be compared with traditional
images of the Soviet past). These learning objects were taken back to
the home campuses and used in the following fall and spring terms.
MERLOT review of REALIA Project: http://www.merlot.org/artifact/ArtifactDetail.po?oid=1010000000000135205
View Agenda (pdf format)
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3-D
Modeling Workshop - July 13-18 (University of Richmond)
(Open to all faculty and IT staff)
This workshop was designed for faculty and IT staff who were interested
in using software to create 3-D animations. These technologies are appropriate
in a wide array of disciplines, including (but not limited to) archaeology,
architecture, biology, and chemistry. The goal of this workshop was
to provide basic training on the most commonly used application (3D
Studio Max) and some associated programs (Flash, Bryce, and Poser). We
provided a taste of Maya, the film industry standard. Participants came
singly or in two-person teams and had
plenty of opportunities during the week to work on their
own project.
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Music
Technology Workshop and Third Annual New Music Festival - July
23-28
(For music faculty, librarians, and students)
This workshop focused on the building
of online teaching materials and on supporting the work of faculty and
student composers. The areas of concentration this year were:
- The Music Theory Tonal Harmony project begun in
2003 (http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/index.html)
designed to provide an extensive list of animated scores and audio
files to supplement theory texts.
- Learning Objects focusing on music of the 20th
and 21st century (http://www.colleges.org/~music/modules/LOindex.html)
- Continuation of the Student Composition Contest.
In 2004 in an effort to help as many students as possible
Luna Nova, the ACS new music ensemble, performed the winning student
pieces and had reading sessions for pieces by other student
attendees.
- Luna Nova performed faculty works, including
two new ones that were written especially for the ensemble.
- The Classics of the 20th Century series.
This year's works were: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time,
Carter's Canon for Four, Stravinsky's Four Songs from William Shakespeare,
and Bartok's Contrasts. Learning Objects for each of these were available
by the end of the spring semester.
- Various performers and composers presented sessions
intended for both student and faculty participants. Any faculty interested
in submitting a proposal for a performance or for a workshop session
contacted Patricia Gray.
View Agenda (pdf format)
Fall Workshops
ACSTC
Strategic Planning Workshop - September 22-23, 2004
Atlanta, Georgia
Fall
2004 IT Staff Retreat - September 30-October 3, 2004
ACSTC
[Past Workshops]
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