Integration of learning
Open Source Software Tools: Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
Posted December 11th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Tim Berners-Lee presented the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) yesterday at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). $650,000 in prize money went to 10 nonprofits for "leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities."
While more information is available on the CNI site, the winners are as follows:
- American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY: www.movingimage.us) for the development and release of the OpenCollection museum collection management system (www.opencollection.org) [$100,000].
- Duke University (Durham, NC: www.duke.edu) for leadership and development work on the OpenCroquet open source 3-D virtual worlds environment (www.opencroquet.org)[$100,000].
- Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz) for leadership and development work on several open source projects including the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (http://eduforge.org/projects/nzvle/) [$100,000].
- Georgia Public Library Service of the University System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system (www.open-ils.org) [$50,000].
- Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT: www.middlebury.edu) for the development and release of the Segue interactive learning management system [$50,000].
- Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA: www.participatoryculture.org) for the development and release of the open source Miro media player (www.getmiro.com) [$50,000].
- Talboks-och Punkstkriftsbiblioteket (The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille: Enskede, Sweden: www.tpb.se) for the development and release of open source tools supporting the Daisy Project for talking books for the visually impaired [$50,000].
- University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL: www.illinois.edu): one award for the development and release of the Firefox Accessibility Extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1891) [$50,000]; and one award for the development and release of the OpenEAI enterprise application integration project (www.openEAI.org) [$50,000].
- University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario: www.utoronto.ca) for the development and release of the ATutor learning management system (www.atutor.ca) [$50,000].
Two for One Special: Convergence of New Report and New Tool for Scholarly Communication
Posted August 25th, 2007 by Michael Roy, Middlebury College
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The Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library, in partnership with the Institute for the Future of the Book , has published an interactive, publicly-commentable edition of the the Ithaka report, "University Publishing In A Digital Age." The report is presented in CommentPress, an open source theme for the WordPress
blog engine that allows paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the
margins of a text, in development by the Institute for the Future of
the Book. Please spread the word and join the discussion.
Podcasting Can Help College Students Learn, D&M Says
Posted June 1st, 2007 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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The results from this somewhat biased study are promising in that it appears that students who utilize educational podcasts feel that they are helpful.
But are recordings of lectures really podcasts?
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Muzzy Lane Announces New Series of Video Games
Posted May 25th, 2007 by Todd Bryant, Dickinson College
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Many people will be familiar with Muzzy Lane's game Making History. This World War II strategy game is designed with certain extra capabilities, such as decision tracking, to make it easier to integrate into the classroom than other commercial games such as Hearts of Iron II. It seems their game's success along with successful titles from other small publishers such as Peacemaker and A Force More Powerful have encouraged Muzzy Lane to focus on current events as their next subject area. Harvard historian Niall Ferguson will be working with Muzzy Lane to create a new series of video games focusing on modern global conflicts. You can read more about it on Wired.
French Through Songs and Singing: Language and Culture Through Music Online
Posted February 8th, 2007 by Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University
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Aaron Prevots was looking to incorporate music more in his French language, literature and culture classrooms, and beyond that, to create a dynamic, collaborative space online in which to share this music and exchange information, articles and music-related pedagogy with others. The result: a multimedia educational Web site featuring music-related articles, streaming MP3's of primarily public domain material and annotated, downloadable lyrics.
Assessing Learning Objects: The Importance of Values, Purpose and Design
Posted February 8th, 2007 by Diane J. Goldsmith, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
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Despite claims that "the learning object is dead," learning object repositories continue to grow. But how do we measure the success of a learning object? Diane Goldsmith provides her own clear and comprehensive "assessment" of the problem.
Digital Image Interview Series: Hank Glassman
Posted February 8th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Digital Image Interview Series
Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Haverford College
Hank Glassman teaches Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History. Images have become increasingly important in his teaching on Japanese language, history, and culture and in his research on Japanese religions in the medieval period. He constantly struggles with how best to display images in his classes and how to help students engage them as texts.
Academic Commons: Tell me a little about your ambitions for using digital images and what the transition has been like.
Glassman: First, I've been at Haverford for six years and I have to say that for three of those years it was very much a struggle to bring digital images into the classroom. I was very dissatisfied with the options-software, hardware, and support; it was very difficult to get material scanned at the resolutions I requested and there was a real absence of a support system or of specialists able to manage digital images. But then everything changed and now I cannot complain. First we had MDID and now we're moving to ARTstor and we have a terrific level of support. I'm very pleased by the direction everything is going.
Hank Glassman, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Haverford College
Hank Glassman teaches Buddhism, Religion and Gender, East Asian Religions, Japanese Literature, Language, and History. Images have become increasingly important in his teaching on Japanese language, history, and culture and in his research on Japanese religions in the medieval period. He constantly struggles with how best to display images in his classes and how to help students engage them as texts.
Academic Commons: Tell me a little about your ambitions for using digital images and what the transition has been like.
Glassman: First, I've been at Haverford for six years and I have to say that for three of those years it was very much a struggle to bring digital images into the classroom. I was very dissatisfied with the options-software, hardware, and support; it was very difficult to get material scanned at the resolutions I requested and there was a real absence of a support system or of specialists able to manage digital images. But then everything changed and now I cannot complain. First we had MDID and now we're moving to ARTstor and we have a terrific level of support. I'm very pleased by the direction everything is going.
Digital Image Interview Series: Robert Nelson
Posted November 30th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Digital Image Interview Series November, 2006
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Robert Nelson studies and teaches medieval art at Yale University. He came to Yale in 2005, after a long and distinguished career at the University of Chicago. It was there that he started teaching with digital images, and he has not looked back. He is co-curator of the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on display at the Getty Museum through March 4, 2007.
Academic Commons: Let's start by asking about your own engagement with digital images.
Nelson: I'm very interested in this because I've written about the history of the slide lecture and so I'm actually quite interested in this transition.[1] The coming of slides transformed art history and I believe this will make not the same transition, the same revolution, but it's definitely going to make a big change.
Art history is frozen in a certain technological state. There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Whereas film went on to many other things - there were talking pictures, there were DVDs and many more manifestations, and now art history will move into that larger realm.
So how is it changing what you're doing in the classroom ?
Well it's changing many things. But first I'd like to say why I've made the switch. I told people when I first arrived here [2005] I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University. Come hell or high water, no matter what happens, I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University! So, I've completely made the switch. And the reason is that students learn much better. That is the most important reason.
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Robert Nelson studies and teaches medieval art at Yale University. He came to Yale in 2005, after a long and distinguished career at the University of Chicago. It was there that he started teaching with digital images, and he has not looked back. He is co-curator of the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on display at the Getty Museum through March 4, 2007.
Academic Commons: Let's start by asking about your own engagement with digital images.
Nelson: I'm very interested in this because I've written about the history of the slide lecture and so I'm actually quite interested in this transition.[1] The coming of slides transformed art history and I believe this will make not the same transition, the same revolution, but it's definitely going to make a big change.
Art history is frozen in a certain technological state. There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Whereas film went on to many other things - there were talking pictures, there were DVDs and many more manifestations, and now art history will move into that larger realm.
So how is it changing what you're doing in the classroom ?
Well it's changing many things. But first I'd like to say why I've made the switch. I told people when I first arrived here [2005] I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University. Come hell or high water, no matter what happens, I'm not going to show a slide at Yale University! So, I've completely made the switch. And the reason is that students learn much better. That is the most important reason.
Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions
Posted October 30th, 2006 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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David Green's study focuses on the pedagogical implications of the widespread use of the digital format for images. While the core of the study involved changes in the teaching-learning dynamic and the teacher-student relationship, related issues concerning supply, support and infrastructure rapidly became part of its fabric. In addition to the report, the site contains a set of one-on one-interviews with faculty on how digital changes everything.
NERALLT Fall Meeting to discuss New Modes of Communication
Posted September 29th, 2006 by Mary Morrisard-Larkin, College of the Holy Cross
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The next NERALLT meeting, Virtually Anything: Modes of Communication, will take place on Thursday and Friday, October 26 and 27, 2006 and will be hosted by Thomas Hammond at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
This meeting will examine the generational shift occurring in young people, regarding the use of communication and collaboration technologies by these "digital natives.†How will their social and learning styles shape instructional language technology and pedagogy for the next generation of students?
