Transcript Wesleyan’s Academic Technology Roundtable

Wesleyan’s
Academic
Technology
Roundtable
Michael Roy
Director of Academic Computing Services & Digital Library Projects
[email protected]
Slides: http://mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talks/nercomp-cop-oct04/
Overview
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Partners
History
Logistics & Costs
Sample Programs
Projects/Initiatives
Context
Academic Commons
Partners
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Library
Academic Computing Services
Center for Faculty Career Development
2GFYI (First Year Initiative, 2nd
Generation)
Context #1: Aerial Geography
Context # 2: Cyclical Academic
Process
Administration
Registering
Requesting Services
Scheduling
Announcing
Authorizing
Planning & Advising
Selecting
Reflecting
Evaluating sources
Choosing texts
Categorizing
Learning & Teaching
Writing, publishing,analyzing,
critical reading, discussing,
graphing,simulating, annotating,
comparing, contrasting,
mapping, editing
Assessing
Quizzing
Grading
Testing
Conext #3: Evolution of Instructional
Services (at Wesleyan)
Learning Object
Development
Digitization Service
WebTech Program
Course Management Systems
Smart Classrooms
Instructional Support (separate from desktop support)
Resnet
Public Computing Labs
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History of Academic Technology
Roundtable
• Began Fall 1998
• Modeled after the TLTR (Teaching,Learning,
Technology Roundtable)
http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/TLTR/home.htm
• Academic not Teaching/Learning quite on
purpose
Logistics
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ATR=Weekly lunchtime talk
Web Page (http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ )
Planning group (meets twice a year)
Email notifications/calendar
– Faculty list
– Library list
– Ad hoc list (subscribable via web)
Costs
• 22 lunches x 30 people x $7/lunch=$4,620
• Speakers from outside (4 x $500=$2,000)
• Administration/marketing FREE!
Sample Programs:
Why Blackboard?
Three faculty who have recently decided to start using Blackboard will discuss their
decision-making process for choosing to use Blackboard, and their plans and
strategies for making effective use of it. David Westmoreland (Chemistry), Mary
Alice Haddad (Government), and Kim Root (Dance) will lead the discussion.
What are Scholarly
Communications and why it
matters to liberal arts education?
Scholarly Communications used to mean books, journals, and conference
proceedings. As the scholarly world has become increasingly digital, the format
and possibilities for how academics share information are rapidly changing, and
not always for the better.Barbara Jones, Steve Bischof, and Michael Roy will
frame the general question of what scholarly communications are,describe
some specific and very real problems that the scholarly community faces, and
outline some possible solutions (and problems with those solutions.)
See also the ATR Scholarly Communications Working Group Website
"Science and Art" as a possible
General Education Course at
Wesleyan
The science and technology involved in creating, understanding,
authenticating and conserving works of art presents an interesting
possibility for the development of a General Education course or
courses at Wesleyan that carries NSM expectation credit. This past
summer we have compiled a considerable amount of source material
and links to web sites in this subject area. An overview of this initiative
will be presented along with an examination of some of the best web
sites, some quite dynamic, containing related material.
Presenters: Mariah Klaneski ''04, David Beveridge (Chemistry and
2GFYI)
Projects/Initiatives
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Scholarly Communications Working Group
Visual Resources Working Group
Teaching Matters
Academic Web Architecture
Information Commons
faculty development
faculty development
faculty development
technologists
technologists
technologists
librarians
librarians
librarians
faculty
faculty
faculty
Academic Commons
• http://www.academicommons.org
Stay Informed
ATR Mailing List
http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/
Academic Commons Announcements
http://www.academiccommons.org