millsaps liberal tech, october 2007
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Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
Millsaps CollegeOctober, 2007
NITLE workshop
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0. Introductions and overview1. Resource aggregation2. Publishing to the web3. Discussion areas4. Multimedia pedagogy
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First, liberal education
Inherited models
Artes liberales – Skills– Practice, yet theory– Multiplicity
Literacies– Multiple– Productive– Media vs
information
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Different weavings from the cloth
• Pure learning for learning’s sake• Student-centered pedagogy• Preparation for democratic
citizenship• Institutional typology and heritage
-Jo Ellen Parker, “What’s So “Liberal” About Higher Ed?” (Academic Commons, 2006)
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Millsaps’ core
Abilities:• Reasoning
(quantitative, scientific, ethical, aesthetic)
• Communication • Historical
Consciousness • Social & Cultural
Awareness (Image from CodeCutter, via Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarkb/1133112464/)
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Digital, not analog?
Differences, enhancements• Student’s schedule• Repeatability, scrubbing,
segmentation, transferability• Iteration
(Desire path,Vermont, 2006)
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Further affordances
• Social software– Triangulation– Presence
• Temporality– Synch versus asynch– Two archival tendencies
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Practical tendencies
• Timeshifts within the classroom
• Classroom vs. the rest of spacetime
• LazyWeb meets DIY• Archival teaching for
the professor(Middlebury College,
January 2006)
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The relief of history
Adrien Baillet, Jugement de Paris
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Resource aggregation
• Eroding, but semiarchived (http://archive.org)
• Vast• Growing
(Bookstore in Fes,Morocco, 2007)
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Requirements• Search (classic, social, Web 2.0,
media)• Aggregation (del.icio.us,
Scholar.com, H2O)• Information literacy• Social aggregation, or digital
citizenship
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Away from the wild Web
• e-reserves • Databases
(ARTSTOR)• The oldest
information profession(Denison Library,
Claremont Colleges)
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Publishing to the web
“Web 1.0”• Enormous publication• Vast, semiarchived (archive.org)• Needed: editor and host
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• Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html
• Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/
• Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
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“Web 2.0”• Social
software• Microconte
nt• Open • Platforms
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Web 2.0: blogs• Public intellectual• Research record• Personal expression
• Collaborative blogs• Scholarly discussion
– Formal and in-
• Emergent interest
(Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona CollegeLMS conference, Reed College, 2005)
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Web courseware (Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai)
• Class (not course) only
• Copyright shield (TEACH Act)
• Integration with e-reserves
(Martin Dougiemas, via PeskyLibrary on Flickr)
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Discussion areas
• Blogs– Posts– Comments– On-campus and off-
(“Blog-based communities,”James Farmer, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elifishtacos/90944651/)
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Wikis• History• That encyclopedia• Two challenges• Wikis not called
wikis
Modes of use• Discussion• Annotation• Collaborative
writing
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Multimedia pedagogy
– Learning styles– Active engagement– Changing population, literacy– Long, long tradition
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Images• Visualization• Compositions• Presentation (ppt)• Social (Flickr)
(Image from “LordSutch” via Flickr,http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordsutch/19444718/)
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Audio• Sound objects• Social sound:
podcasting (James Phfrem)
• Embedded sound (Web, video)
• Synchronous: VOIP(Aaron Prevots, French,Southwestern University)
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PodcastingPedagogies• Profcasting• Studentcasting• Public intellectual• Field work
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Video • Video objects• Social video (Web)• Synchronous (Video conference)
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Digital cartography• GIS • Web mapping, a/k/a virtual globes• Synchronous? Watch Google
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Multimedia syntheses• Presentation tools (PowerPoint,
Keynote)• Media: text, images, sound, video• Ease of use• Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf
Tufte)
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Multimedia syntheses• Virtual worlds
– Virtual reality– Social-emotional bandwidth
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Multimedia syntheses• Gaming
– Pedagogies (Gee, 2003ff)
– Literacy– Compositions
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And text!• Web 2.0• Nearly every digital affordance• Synchronous: chat, IM
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