This project and survey are principally designed to map and demonstrate current practice among faculty and students in using digital images in and out of the classroom. We are interested in use across all disciplines represented in the group of participating Liberal Arts colleges and hope to capture potential and imagined uses as well as current practice. The project will necessarily touch upon technology, new tools, cataloging and management issues as well as the support given by instructional technologists and library staff. But the knowledge it seeks is how the evolving use of digital images is affecting how we learn. Questions are thus designed to lead to stories, anecdotes, vision and disappointments about changing practices and perceived needs for the future.

At the end of the survey you will have the option of identifying yourself and stating your privacy preferences; you may view the privacy statement and options in advance.

Institution: (required) Select your institution Allegheny Amherst Bard Barnard Bates Bennington Bowdoin Bryn Mawr Colby Colgate Connecticut Dickinson Franklin and Marshall Gettysburg Hamilton Haverford Holy Cross Lafayette Middlebury Mount Holyoke Princeton Sarah Lawrence Skidmore Smith St. Lawrence Swarthmore Trinity Ursinus Vassar Wellesley Wesleyan Wheaton Williams Yale

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A. Teaching Information

1. Please select an area that best captures your work: Select your area Art/Art Practice/Art History/Architecture Anthropology Archaeology Area Studies Life Sciences Classics Environmental/Earth Sciences/Geography History Languages Literature Physical Sciences Psychology/Sociology/Social Sciences Other:

2. How many years have you been teaching at your institution?

3. Courses: Please list the titles of the courses that you typically teach and for each one indicate the type/size of class and any digital components you use in that class:

Course Name:   Course Name: Type/size: Seminar Lab Small lecture ( less than 25 students) Medium lecture (25-50) Large lectures (50-100) Very large lecture (more than 100) Type/size: Seminar Lab Small lecture ( less than 25 students) Medium lecture (25-50) Large lectures (50-100) Very large lecture (more than 100) Digital components:
[check all that apply] Reserve reading or other digital text
Images
Video or audio
Resources in any media obtained from the Web
After class discussions online
Assignments that can be completed online Digital components:
[check all that apply] Reserve reading or other digital text
Images
Video or audio
Resources in any media obtained from the Web
After class discussions online
Assignments that can be completed online   Course Name: Course Name: Type/size: Seminar Lab Small lecture ( less than 25 students) Medium lecture (25-50) Large lectures (50-100) Very large lecture (more than 100) Type/size: Seminar Lab Small lecture ( less than 25 students) Medium lecture (25-50) Large lectures (50-100) Very large lecture (more than 100) Digital components:
[check all that apply] Reserve reading or other digital text
Images
Video or audio
Resources in any media obtained from the Web
After class discussions online
Assignments that can be completed online Digital components:
[check all that apply] Reserve reading or other digital text
Images
Video or audio
Resources in any media obtained from the Web
After class discussions online
Assignments that can be completed online

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B. Image Sources and Searching

1. The digital images I use come from: Always Frequently Sometimes Never   1. My own collection   2. Other personal collections   3. The Web (via Google or other image search engine)   4. Free online image databases
       If so, which?   5. Licensed resources made available by the college
(e.g., ARTstor, Cultural Materials, etc.)
       If so, which?   6. Department's own digital image library
        Please give any details about any such departmental collection
          7. College library's own digital image library
        Please give any details about any such library collection
          8. Other:
        Please give any details about any such library collection
       

2. Are you able to combine images from these sources to your satisfaction?      Yes      No

3. Tell us how important the following are to you? Most Very Not very Not at all   1. Image resolution/quality   2. Metadata (information about the image)   3. Ease of finding the exact image you need   4. An ability to indicate scale or size of object

4. Please estimate the average number of hours a week you spend in preparing digital images for use in teaching.    

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C. Use

1. How long have you used images in class (in years)?     Analog     Digital

2. How often do you use analog images (prints, slides, etc) and/or digital images in each of the following situations?

  ANALOG   DIGITAL Always Sometimes Never Always Sometimes Never 1. Class presentation 2. Course website       3. Student assignments 4. Student review/study 5. Tests/quizzes 6. Online discussions       7. Other:  

3. How many images do you use each semester across all of your courses?

        Analog: less than 50      50-100      100-500      500-1000      more than 1000

         Digital: less than 50      50-100      100-500      500-1000      more than 1000

4a. What are the advantages of using digital images in teaching?

1. For students: 2. For your own teaching style: 3. Other

4b. What are the advantages of using analog images in teaching?
          

5. Please indicate the relative importance of these activities for your teaching: Very Somewhat Not very Not at all   1. Presenting digital images to groups of students   2. Presenting several images simultaneously   3. Zooming to show progressive detail in an image   4. Altering images (cropping, changing contrast, etc.)   5. Adding text or other media to accompany an image   6. Creating image sequences for presentation   7. Being able to interrupt or change sequences in the middle of a presentation   8. Providing digital images for student review and study   9. Creating my own digital images [scanning/camera]   10. Tasking students to find/create digital images for their own creative work   11. Other (please indicate other ways you use digital images):

6. Has your teaching changed because of the use of digital images?   Very        Somewhat        Not very        Not at all

         If so, how?    

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D. Technology and Tools

1. Do you have adequate hardware available to present digital images in the classroom?      Yes      No
    If not, what changes would you like to see?
    

2. Which presentation software do you use?    ARTstor       CONTENTdm       Luna       MDID       PowerPoint
    Other (Please specify):

3. What do you like about the presentation software you use?
   

4. What do you dislike about the presentation software you use?
   

5. What would you like to be able to do when teaching with images that you don't have a tool for?
   

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E. Support

1. Do you receive any kind of technical support?      Yes      No

    If so from whom: IT support staff Departmental or other college staff Visual Resources staff Student assistants Librarians Workshops Other

2. How important for your teaching is support in the following areas, do you get such support and how satisfied are you with it?

  Important   Receive
Support?   Satisfied   Very Fairly Not Yes No Very Moderately Not 1. Finding digital resources 2. Digitizing images 3. Interpreting/applying copyright law 4. Creating a website 5. Importing/integrating images into a learning
management system or database 6. Organizing, cataloging and maintaining digital
images either in a database or in a course
management system, such as Blackboard

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F. Obstacles

1. What are the chief obstacles to using digital images the way you would like to?
   

G. Other Comments.

1. Please use this space to tell us anything about your experience teaching with digital images.
   

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PRIVACY POLICY & OPTIONS

Please indicate (required)

A. My responses may be identified with my name and shared with other project participants.
B. My responses may be identified with my name, but please share them only with the project's executive committee.
C. I want my responses to be anonymous.

All responses may be quoted anonymously in subsequent reporting on this project, but no personal or institutional names will be used without a respondent's express approval. Should the authors of a project report want to attribute your comments, they will contact you for permission. Individually identified respondents also may be contacted for follow-up questions stemming from their survey responses.

Name (if confidentiality not required): Email Address (if confidentiality not required):

Executive Committee
David Green, Knowledge Culture (consultant)
Rob Lancefield, Wesleyan University
Amy McGill, Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College
Michael Roy, Wesleyan University
Dan Schnaidt, Wesleyan University

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We appreciate your time and effort expended on this preliminary survey and look forward to further discussion of these issues.

Thank you!

How to cite this work

Michael Roy. "Image Project Survey Instrument." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 21 May 2012. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.