MediaNOLA and Mapping Historical Preservation
Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, Communication
Mike Griffith, Tulane University, ILC/English
April 18th, 2012 4pm
Howard Tilton Memorial Library Room 308
Refreshments to Follow
Given the imperialist connotations of mapmaking and the limited access to GIS technologies in a digitally divided world, the spatialization of communication history is entangled in questions of authority, social class, and status. To what degree can these masters’ tools, in the words of Audre Lorde, be used to dismantle their houses? This question implicitly frames MediaNOLA, a digital mapping and history project which has attempted to bring together university students, library archivists, and city residents in telling histories about the production of culture in New Orleans, 1880-present. This paper will explore the genesis and current challenges of making MediaNOLA communicate histories to and through these very different constituencies. Both in its means and its ends, MediaNOLA has illuminated how communication involves both transportation and transmission—something to consider in theorizing and implementing maps of cultural history.
This talk will cover both the theoretical and practical aspects of bringing a project of this sort to life. We will talk about technological requirements, student pedagogy and community outreach.
Interested in presenting your work? See our Call for Submissions below.
Call for Submissions
Innovative Learning Center
Faculty Symposia on Digital Trends
The Innovative Learning Center’s is pleased to open a call for papers for the Faculty Symposia on Digital Trends. These symposia are designed to allow Tulane faculty and graduate students opportunities to refine both their pedagogical and practical approaches to technology. We are soliciting abstracts for work-in-progress presentations on any aspect of technological pedagogy or research. This is a perfect venue for collecting feedback from university peers who share an interest in the opportunities technology presents to our community and the large academic world.
Digital Trends sessions take place in the ILC on the 3rd floor of Howard Tilton Library. Presentations usually last between thirty minutes and an hour and are followed by a question and answer session and reception.
Interested parties should contact Mike Griffith (mgriffi@tulane.edu) with a brief abstract or outline.
Plagiarism
April 18, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
Our focus on Plagiarism will cover relevant topics for classroom instruction and assessment, as well as a hands-on workshop designed to introduce attendees to current technologies available to help foster a culture of academic integrity.
What is plagiarism?
The Council of Writing Program Administrators reminds us that plagiarism is a "multifaceted and ethically complex problem. However, if any definition...is to be helpful to administrators, faculty, and students, it needs to be as simple and direct as possible within the context for which it is intended" (WPA Statement On Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism [1]). They suggest the following definition: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else's language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source. (1)
For Tulane University's policies, see the Tulane Code of Academic Integrity.
Plagiarism Resource Downloads
- Plagiarism Tip Sheet for Faculty (.doc file)
- From Transition to College Writing (by Keith Hjortshoj, .pdf file)
- Straight Talk About Plagiarism (pdf file)
- Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices (pdf file)
Online Tutorials for Understanding Plagiarism
- The Bedford/St. Martin's Workshop on Plagiarism
- Indiana University School of Education
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- San Jose State University
Plagiarism Detection Tools
The Mobile Classroom
June 21, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
» MS PowerPoint presentation (used during the symposium session)
This session focused on the use of mobile technologies in the classroom, and as tools of teaching and learning. Mobile learning, or m-learning, was introduced through demonstrated applications on iPods, PSPs, mobile phones, a Chumby, and laptop/tablet PC computers.
More resources
Podcasting and Coursecasting
May 11, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
» MS PowerPoint presentation (used during the symposium session)
Our focus on podcasting/coursecasting will cover what you need to know about this popular new technology in the classroom, and we'll also address concerns about its use in higher education.
What is podcasting & coursecasting?
Podcasting is the syndicated distribution of audio or video files (and sometimes text files), pushed to subscribers. Subscribers typically use an application, such as iTunes, to manage their podcast content and automatically download a new "edition" of a podcast when it becomes available from the podcast publisher. The podcast file can then be listened to or viewed on the subscriber's computer or on a personal audio device, such as an iPod.
A coursecast is a kind of podcast. Coursecasting generally consists of podcasts generated from classroom or lesson-based content. An example of a coursecast is a course where each lecture is recorded, and students can download each recording (or podcast). In a true coursecast, each recorded lecture would be "pushed" to the student subscriber's computer when it becomes available.
What will be covered in class?
We will be reviewing:
- What is podcasting/coursecasting
- The Tulane podcast/coursecast pilot
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- eNotes - our own coursecast system
- iTunesU - our partnership with Apple to deliver course content
- Participants' comments
- Best practices
- Lessons learned
- Podcasting at peer institutions
- Concerns about coursecasting
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- Intellectual property
- Class attendance
- Technology issues
- Best practices
- The future of podcasting/coursecasting
- Resources & how to learn more
- And more!
What is the class like? Will I get hands-on experience?
The class will be an entertaining lecture, led by experts in the Tulane community. A brief discussion will follow the lecture.
Podcasting Client Software/Applications
- iWriter - "The easy solution for creating iPod study tools"
- Anapod - Alternative to iTunes
- Podcast Ready/myPodder - Another alternative
- Yamipod - Another alternative to iTunes; freeware
Podcasting Publishing Software/Applications
- Audacity - Freeware audio editor
- Easypodcast - Freeware podcast creator
- Propaganda
- Podcaster - "Specifically designed for use in education"
More Podcasting/Coursecasting News & Information
- Podcasting & Vodcasting - A White Paper (U of Missouri)
- Edupodder Weblog
- "Podcasting in Education" from Educause November/December 2005
- "Podcasting Lectures" from Educause Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3
- "Seven Things you Should Know About Podcasting" from Educause
- Podcasting and Vodcasting: A White Paper (University of Missouri)
- "Abandoning Cassette Tapes, Purdue U. Will Podcast Lectures in Almost 50 Courses" from The Chronicle of Higher Education (9-9-2005)
- "Lectures on the Go" from The Chronicle of Higher Education (10-28-2005)
- "Stanford using iTunes to take lectures global" from C/Net News (11-3-2005)
- Podcasting: A New Medium for a New Voice in Health Care Education (San Francisco School of Nursing)
University Podcast/Coursecast sites
- Duke University
- “Duke Webcast to Discuss iPods, Technology in Class” (7-26-2006)
- University of California, Berkeley
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- MIT Spoken Lecture Processing Server
Apple iTunes U
- Apple's iTunes U course-casting service
- "Stanford U. Makes Podcasts of Lectures Available Through Apple's iTunes" from The Chronicle of Higher Education (11-4-2005)
- "Apple Releases Free 'iTunes U' Software to Colleges" from Coursecasting from The Chronicle of Higher Education (1-25-2006)
- "Opening up iTunes U" from InfoWorld (2-1-2006)
Blogs
July 10, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
» MS PowerPoint presentation(used during the symposium session)
This session discussed what blogs are, how to start a blog, examples of blogs, and the unique features of blog applications. Discussions were led by Clay McGovern, Michele White, and Harry Howard about using blogs in the classroom and their own experiences of using blogs as a pedagogical tool.
More resources
- Clay's Blog
- Harry Howard's Tulane faculty page
- Michele White's Internet Social Networking Course Blog (archives)
Blogging applications (selected list)
- Sixapart.com- Publishers of Movable Type and Typepad
- WordPress
- Blogger
- BlogCFC
Wikis
June 27, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
» MS PowerPoint presentation (used during the symposium session)
This session focused on the use of wikis: what is a wiki, the anatomy of a wiki, the difference between a wiki and a weblog, examples of wikis, the merits and drawbacks of using wikis in higher education, and an optional workshop following the presentation.
Wiki applications
Wiki examples
15 Useful Technologies
September 11, 2007 10:00 AM
Room 308, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University (Uptown campus)
More info: ilc@tulane.edu
Fifteen handy tips, web sites, and a gadget or two to make your research (and non-research) life easier. The list of sites discussed is below.
- How to embed a YouTube video in MS PowerPoint
- Pidgin - the instant messenger "all-in-one"
- Sony eBooks
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (also see Scivee.tv
- Portableapps.com
- Zotero - the bibliographic wonder-plugin (Firefox only)
- Zamzar.com - convert any file to another file format
- Bubbl.us
- Firefox Campus Edition
- Infectedornot.com
- Snag-it
- Lectureshare.com
- Gabcast.com
- Adobe Visual Communicator
- MS Office 2007 PowerPoint tips
Tech Day Digital Trends Encore
September 19th, 2008 10-3 PM
Rechler Conference Room (202) LBC
As a part of Tech Day, the ILC will be reprising some of our most successful Digital Trends Sessions from the past couple of years. All of these session will take place in the Rechler Conference Room (202) in the LBC on September 19th, 2008. To register for these events, register for Tech Day on that site.
10:30 AM
Clay McGovern “The Mobile Classroom”
Come learn about all of the popular technologies that go where you go. What's the story with ebooks? How can I get the most out of my phone or PDA? Come find out.
12:00 Noon
Susann Lusnia “Integrating the Classroom: A Study in Teaching with Technology”
Image collections and audio files can enrich the learning environment and provide students with study resources for use outside of the classroom. Adding visual or audio components to myTulane can be
relatively easy to do. In this Digital Trends seminar, you'll learn what's needed to produce a basic podcast, how to prepare images for use in PowerPoint, and easy ways to customize your myTulane course pages.
1:30 PM
Joe Letter “E Pluribus Unum: Dialogue, Engagement, and Collaboration through Wikis”
Joe Letter will discuss his experiences using Wikis in his writing classes. Come learn how to integrate these new tools into your lectures, see the student responses and chat about other possible uses of this technology in the classroom.
Mobile Fieldwork in Kenya
October 16th, 2008, 1:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Laura Murphy
Department of International Health and Development and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
Laura will deliver a presentation of her strategies and methods for using mobile devices during her field work in Kenya this summer. The talk will address the advantages and limitations these devices present and cover the process Laura developed while working with and through them.
The XO (a.k.a. $100) Laptop:
Where's the Pedagogy?
October 30th, 2008, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Bridget McGraw
Bridget looked critically at the design and distribution of MIT's laptop that was designed for the developing world, focusing on the lack of input from "end users" (i.e., teachers and students in the developing world). She had an XO laptop for demonstration.
Bridget McGraw was born and raised at the top end of the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she studied English Literature as an undergraduate. She then earned two Masters degrees from New York University˜one in Fine Art Photography and the other in Interactive Telecommunications. Since completing her studies in 1994, Bridget has lived and worked in Australia, The Philippines, Canada, Great Britain and Kenya. She has worked as a teacher, instructional designer, museum exhibition producer, writer, ideographer, photographer, multimedia producer, editor and technical advisor.
Téléphone Arabe:
From child’s play to the
“war on terror”
The poetics and politics
of telecommunication
November 20th, 2008, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Felicia McCarren
Professor of French, Tulane
Arguing for multidirectional transculturation over (colonial or post-colonial) technology transfer, this paper considers the circulation of current telephone practices in France and its former North African colonies, as well as the history and theory of telephone “ideology” and its role in shaping the U.S. program of domestic surveillance.
2008 Tech Day Keynote
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Higher Education in the Digital-Virtual Age?
Beth Ritter-Guth
3:00-4:30 pm
How is technology changing the canvas of our college classrooms? Is content being sacrificed as clicks replace pen strokes? Are standards lessened because of technology? Do students cheat more now that the tools are available? Are we learning less, retaining less. or becoming intellectually vacant at the hands of technology? Beth Ritter-Guth has used classroom educational technology to teach college English and literature, and will argue that technology strengthens and deepens student learning. She is the Educational Communications and Technology Facilitator at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT.
The Wiki from Beth's talk can be found here.
Watch the lecture here.
As part of the Digital Trends lecture series we are pleased to present SACS reaccrediation workshops. We will have a recurring series of workshops led by Ann Kovalchick and a special workshop presented by Associate Provost Timothy McNamara of Vanderbilt university. Come learn the tips and tricks to make the SACS process fly.
Registration for these workshops is now closed, please check back for more information.
Workshop Schedule
Associate Provost Timothy McNamara, Vandelbilt University
“Introduction to Learning Outcomes Assessment”
Monday October 13, 11:30-2:00 PM
Lunch Workshop
McKeever Conference Room, LBC
Vanderbilt University Associate Provost Tim McNamara spearheaded Vanderbilt’s SACS reaccreditation process last year and will lead a workshop on the nuts and bolts of learning outcomes assessment for faculty, department chairs, program directors and other interested member of the Tulane community.
Ann Kovalchick, Deputy CIO and Director, ILC
"Are you teaching today or are you giving a test?"
Various Dates, Listed Below
Lunch Workshop
Innovative Learning Center, Howard Tilton Memorial Library
This two-hour workshop will provide faculty with tools for use in assessing student outcomes at the course level. Attendees will complete a Teaching Goals inventory to identify classroom assessment techniques specific to their teaching style and course content and use a Taxonomy Table to define learning objectives for which they will select appropriate assessments. Faculty should bring to class a course syllabi of a course for which they would like to design assessments. Includes a box lunch.
Ann's workshop is scheduled for the following times:
Thursday, 6 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Friday, 7 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Thursday, 13 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Friday, 14 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Tuesday, 18 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Friday, 21 Nov. 1130am-130pm
Make sure to register so we have a lunch for you!
Mobile Phones and the Digital Divide: Insights from Fieldwork in Western Kenya
October 16th, 2008, 1:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Laura Murphy, Ph.D.
Department of International Health and Development and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
Dr. Murphy delivered a presentation of her strategies and methods for using mobile devices during her field work in Kenya this summer. The talk addressed the advantages and limitations these devices present and covered the process Laura developed while working with and through them. She also presented her statistical findings on cell phone ownership and use in the areas she visited.
View the lecture here.
The slides from the presentation are available here.
The handout from the presentation is available here.
The XO (a.k.a. $100) Laptop:
Where's the Pedagogy?
October 30th, 2008, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Bridget McGraw
Bridget looked critically at the design and distribution of MIT's laptop that was designed for the developing world, focusing on the lack of input from "end users" (i.e., teachers and students in the developing world). She had an XO laptop for demonstration.
Bridget McGraw was born and raised at the top end of the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she studied English Literature as an undergraduate. She then earned two Masters degrees from New York University˜one in Fine Art Photography and the other in Interactive Telecommunications. Since completing her studies in 1994, Bridget has lived and worked in Australia, The Philippines, Canada, Great Britain and Kenya. She has worked as a teacher, instructional designer, museum exhibition producer, writer, ideographer, photographer, multimedia producer, editor and technical advisor.
View the lecture here.
2009 Events
Music Analysis and Podcasting in the Classroom
January 22nd, 2009, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Daniel Sharp
Department of Music, Tulane University
Daniel will present on the results of an assignment his class completed using Sony Vegas to create individual podcasts of integrated music analysis.
Digital Discourse and Delivery in the Composition Classroom
February 12th, 2009, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Todd Kennedy
Department of English, Tulane University
Todd will present on the results of an assignment in his freshman composition class where Final Cut Express was used to produce student videos both as a small image analysis and in a larger documentary form. This is part of the Tulane Digital Communication Project.
Instant Questions, Instant Results
Effective Use of Classroom Response Systems
April 16th, 2009, 2:30 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Mike Griffith and Derek Toten
Innovative Learning Center, Tulane University
At this session, Mike and Derek will demonstrate the new tools available for integrating live student polling and testing into the classroom. These devices and the pedagogy around them have advanced considerably, come learn how they can work for you in your class.
Managing Information Overload @ the Library
September 3rd, 2009, 2:00 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Paul St-Pierre
Reference Librarian (Sciences), Tulane University
Prior to the Internet the library enjoyed a near monopoly in the provision of scholarly information, and it continues to have higher quality electronic resources than the free web. However, with hundreds of vendors using different systems (Tulane subscribes to 500 databases and 30,000 e-journals), comprehensive information gathering has become more challenging. Thus researchers turn to the simplicity of Google, with its easy interface and guaranteed results of unverified quality. Enter MetaLib®, locally called "Article & Database Finder.” Funded by a Technology Services Avenues to Renewal grant, this integrative library technology offers streamlined new ways of finding and managing the best available scholarly sources.
Check out MetaLib here.
Effective Presentation Development
October 8th, 2009, 2:00 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
Mike Griffith, Tulane University, ILC
Now that presentation tools like PowerPoint are ubiquitous in the academic world, it is important to give dynamic and engaging presentations. This session will cover strategies for developing presentations using both traditional and web based applications to give life to concepts and ideas. We will examine the presentation process from first outline to last animation.
Bending Pixels to Your Will
November 19th, 2009, 2:00 PM
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center, HTML
David Robinson, Tulane University, ILC
We'll discuss digital image manipulation for web publishing, presentation and publication. Learn strategies for wrangling pixels for all of your digital needs. We'll go over basic image retouching, sizing, resolution, as well as some advanced features of Adobe Photoshop for automating common tasks. Learn to make the best use of your images by making your images the best they can be.
Visual Media in the Language Classroom
Brittany Kennedy, Tulane University, Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Thursday Nov 18th, at 2pm
Innovative Learning Center (304 Howard Tilton Library)
While Powerpoint, Youtube, and online newspapers have proven their role in the language classroom, how do they function across different levels? This presentation will focus specifically on the role of visual media in the language classroom as teachers make the transition from describing grammar and culture for novice-level students to engaging the intermediate and advanced level student on similar topics. I will discuss the effective use of presentation programs (Powerpoint, Keynote) at different language levels, taking into consideration the specific cognitive load and recall of the language student. I will also discuss the role of the digital media project in the upper-level language classroom, showing how it is particularly useful for the intermediate-high speaker who can reflect and discuss cultural and literary content but still may struggle with the linguistic implications of that particular task.
Open Access to the Scholarly Literature: Publishing in the Digital Age
Paul St-Pierre, Tulane University, Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Thursday Oct 21st, 2010 at 2pm
Innovative Learning Center (304 Howard Tilton Library)
In the old world of print journals, publishers provided essential services to academia: coordinating peer review, editing, printing, and distribution. These services were so valuable that libraries paid large sums, with high annual inflation (8% or more), to subscribe to the best journals. These rates are unsustainable over the long term, and as a result, academic libraries subscribe to a smaller fraction of available journals today than they did twenty years ago. The online environment provides new alternatives to traditional subscription models of access. This lecture discusses the emergence of Open Access publishing as a way to increase the reach and impact of authors' research by making scholarly literature more affordable to readers, and describes open access strategies that are available to Tulane scholars.
Teaching International Relations & the digital age
Alla Rosca, Tulane, Dept of Political Science
April 15th, 2010 2:00pm
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
We will discuss the experience of teaching International Relations using digital programs for creating a comparative analysis of foreign policy decision making processes on the personal, state and system levels. An example of a Comparative Foreign Policy course will be used to show the role of the digital project in analyzing in a comparative perspective the function of state leaders, the political system and the type of government in formulating foreign policy. We will examine the impact of utilizing the digital project in fostering the students’ creativity, in advocating their ideas, and in furthering their understanding of international relations.
Mapping History on the Web
Robert Allen, UNC, Dept of History
March 11th, 2010 2:00pm
Freeman Auditorium in Woldenberg Art Center
Reception to follow in Woodward Way
Robert will discuss classroom applications he has developed for mapping media and cultural histories through technology. His project "Going to the Show" is on the vanguard of spatial history projects and he will demonstrate these technologies for us.
Going to the Show documents and illuminates the experience of movies and moviegoing in North Carolina from the introduction of projected motion pictures (1896) to the end of the silent film era (circa 1930).
Through its innovative use of more than 750 Sanborn® Fire Insurance maps of forty-five towns and cities between 1896 and 1922, the project situates early moviegoing within the experience of urban life in the state's big cities and small towns. It highlights the ways that race conditioned the experience of moviegoing for all North Carolinians- white, African American, and American Indian. Its collection inventories every known N.C. African American movie theater in operation between 1908 and 1963.
Robert Allen's teaching and research interests are broad and interdisciplinary. His research has focused on the history of American popular entertainment and popular culture. He has written on the history of U.S. radio and television (Speaking of Soap Operas, 1985), film history and historiography (Film History: Theory and Practice, 1985), and American popular theater of the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture, 1992). He is also the editor of To Be Continued: Soap Operas Around the World (1995) and of two editions of the widely-used television criticism anthology, Channels of Discourse and Channels of Discourse, Reassembled (1987, 1994). He is the co-editor of The Television Studies Reader (2004) and Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (2007).
Create a more effective web presence!
Carrie Lee Schwartz, Tulane University, Sr. Professor of Practice in Digital Design
February 18th, 2010 2:00pm
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Are you embarking on a web design project? What do you need to get started? How do you plan site layout and ensure content delivery? This session will address all of these questions both generally in terms best practices and specifically in terms of the Tulane website Content Management System.
Carrie Lee Schwartz is the Senior Prof of Practice in Digital Design at Tulane and has been working with the Newcomb Alumnae Association to create their online presence with their Tulane website, and also social networking sites Linked in, Facebook and Twitter.
Teaching non-English Language and Literature through Technology
Linda Carroll, Dept. of French and Italian, Tulane University
January 28th, 2010 2:00pm
Room 308, Innovative Learning Center
Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Digital instruments have done wonders for the teaching of non-English languages and literatures. Gone are the days when instructors had to wait six weeks for stale newspapers to arrive by boat, as realia of many kinds can be accessed instantly. One of the most important features of digital aids is that they allow instructors to respond to student needs and interests immediately through improvisation. This works at all levels of language and literature instruction, from first semester through senior seminar.
Topics Include:
- typing while talking
- websites of interest to language students
- our current events seen from abroad
- current events in the country/countries of the target language
- screening literary texts
- Google images and vocabulary
Linda Carroll is Professor of Italian and Director, Italian Studies Program. Her academic preparation combined linguistics and Italian in studies with William Moulton and Paolo Valesio. As a teaching assistant, she participated in the pedagogical seminar organized by Dwight Bolinger, the first of its kind in the nation. Her research focuses principally on the language and literature of the region around Venice in the early sixteenth century, topics on which she has published numerous books and articles.
2009 Tech Day Keynote
Being There in the Real Time Web
Alan Levine, VP of the New Media Consortium
12:30-1:30pm
Riddle me this. In the time span of half a generation since the consumerization of the web, this supernova expansion of information technology across a global network has seismically shifted the foundation of traditional industries such as publishing, commerce, television, music, telephony... yet how much has changed in education? For many people who have lived through this time, we carry frameworks of information organized into files, folders, static documents mostly in isolation from other information. Another wave is upon us via what may be called the "real time web", where we tap into a rich flow of data propagating via social networks that challenges are instincts of organization, management, and retrieval.
We cannot grasp the significance looking in from the outside; to understand we ought to "be there." In this presentation, we'll jump right into the real time flow for a taste of what may be possible for educators like you to harness.
View the keynote here.
The Googlization of Everything
Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia
April 1st, 2011 2pm Freeman Auditorium
Reception to follow in Woodward Way
Co-Sponsored by The ILC, The Tulane Center for Intellectual Property Law and Culture, and the American Studies Program.
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission--"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible"--and its much-quoted motto, "Don't be Evil." In this provocative talk, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google--and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, Vaidhyanathan proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of The Googlization of Everything And Why We Should Worry (University of California Press, 2011), Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System(Basic Books, 2004). He edited (with Carolyn de la Pena) a collection, Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, theChronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Columbia University, New York University, and now is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia and a fellow at both the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Student Response Systems
Brandon Keck, Turning Technologies
January 26, 2011 (2 sessions)
Downtown:
Matas Computing Lab, 10:00 am
M207 in the Mezzanine of the Matas Library
2nd Floor of the SOM Building
Uptown:
Howard Tilton Memorial Library, 1:30 pm
Room 308
Refreshments will be served at both sessions.
Account Rep. Brandon Keck with Turning Technologies will discuss the benefits of using Student Response Systems or “clickers” in the classroom. Clickers are used as a way to receive instant feedbackfrom your students, while also increasing student engagement, assessment, retention, among other benefits. The session will also include a demonstration of the capabilities of the clicker technology. Furthermore it will also discuss how this technology can be easily implemented into your classroom and best practices for doing so. Finally the session will conclude with the available training & support resources Turning Technologies can provide to assist you in using this technology for the first time.
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