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These are the slides for a presentation to the Digital Humanities in Asia Workshop In Hong Kong co-sponsored by the United Board. The presentation was delivered using Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing (MIV).TRANSCRIPT
The NITLE ModelRebecca Davis (Associate Director, NITLE Programs)Bret Olsen (Instructional Technologist)
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Introduce Yourselves
NITLE is a community-based, non-profit initiative
• Mission: to advance liberal education in the digital age
• Focus: undergraduate-centered colleges, universities, and other organizations that share the mission
• Goals: strategic, effective adoption of digital technologies; innovation in institutional and individual practices.
NITLE Programs & Services
• NITLE Information Services– Provides managed technology services for
institutions
• NITLE Network– Builds community between peers– Offers collaboration support services
• NITLE Institute– Provides professional development for faculty
& staff
NITLE Information Services:DSpace• Digital repository services
– Quick set up– Includes back-end application and
server support– No need to buy hardware or train staff
for back-end support roles.
• Related professional development offerings
• Peer community
Examples of Campus DSpace Use
• Kalamazoo College, – College Archives,
http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/25
• Whittier College– Course Reserves,
http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/4596
• Franklin & Marshall College– Museum of Art Collection,
http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/720 – Visual Resources Collection,
http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/631
Pennsylvania Folk Art Collection • “This collection presents highlights
of The Phillips Museum of Art’s exceptional permanent collection of Pennsylvania Folk Art, as well as several fine examples of 18th century portrait painting. . . . made possible through the generous support of an institutional digital initiatives grant.”
NITLE Network
• Peer communities allow campuses to share expertise and experience.
• Connect in a variety of ways.– Face to face– Email lists– Monthly Online events– Twitter
What’s your favorite communication mode?
NITLE-IT
• For those who are charged by their institutions with supporting or advancing pedagogical uses of technology on campus. Participants exchange ideas, provide peer support, and share information on a regular basis.
• [email protected] • Special Topics for Instructional Technologists
(monthly)• Instructional Technology Leaders Meeting• Online Conference for instructional technologists• Community discussion on ways to deal with
economic downturn
NITLE Chinese Community• Conferences: Technology-Assisted
Approaches to Teaching Chinese (November 2007)
• Chinese discussion list and Moodle space• Leads to cross-campus collaboration, e.g.,
three faculty from University of Puget Sound, DePauw University, and Amherst College in joint panel presentation at 2009 CLTA
• Chinese Studies Seminar group, June 2009
Professional Development• Conferences
– Bring faculty and staff together around ways technology is impacting the community
– Face to Face: First Year Seminars: Integrating Technology, June 2009
– Online: Mapping for Sustainability, April 2009
Monthly Online Series
• Special Topics in Digital Teaching– Digital Storytelling– Teaching with Digital Games– Grassroots Video– Teaching with Blogs
• Special Topics: Teaching Tools for the Global Age– Video-Conferencing for Global
Education
Workshops to Go
• Face to face• Online
– 3 live meetings• Highly interactive
– Asynchronous work– 10 participants
• Ongoing access to materials
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Current Topics for Online Delivery
• Digital Repositories: Using DSpace • Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts
Campus • Manakin: Developing Interfaces and
Interactivity for DSpace • Social Software for Education: Collaborative
Learning and Research Practices • Teaching with Learning Management
Systems: Moodle, Sakai • Virtual Collaboration • Web-Based Video-Conferencing • Web 2.0 Storytelling
Workshops to Go Catalog
• Introduction to Digital Teaching• Emergent Forms of Digital Teaching• Tools for Digital Teaching
– Images– Audio– Visualization and Analysis Tools– Video– Multimedia Presentation and Publishing– Learning Management– Information Management
Emergent Forms of Digital
Teaching • Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom• Virtual Collaboration• Social Software for Education: Collaborative
Learning and Research Practices• Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories• Gaming and Teaching: Virtual Environments for
Liberal Education• Pedagogical Implications of Wireless and Mobile
Technologies• Web-Based Video-Conferencing: Teaching, Learning,
and Collaborating• Project Management and the Liberal Arts Campus• Web 2.0 Storytelling• Grassroots Video
Information Management• Digital Repositories: Using DSpace• Handling Information Overload• Manakin: Developing Interfaces and
Interactivity for DSpace• Digitization Strategies,
Technologies, and Practices