Thank you very much to everyone who presented at and attended the Faculty Showcase 2013!!
April 18, 2013, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
EC Lounge
Come by, enjoy light refreshments and talk with your colleagues about technology use in Teaching and Learning, Digital Humanities and Research, and learn about new technologies coming your way in the near future!
Teaching and Learning
Where’s the Faith? In January, Kate Ott (Drew Theological School) and Kristen Leslie (Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri) co-taught a very successful course for students at both institutions called Where’s the Faith? Young Adult Ethics and Ministry using WebEx videoconferencing and Wikispaces for collaborative work. To learn more about the course, please watch the Where’s the Faith video. Kate and Leslie will give a presentation at the UT Faculty Showcase at 12:15.
Economics of European Integration: Marc Tomljanovich is teaching Economics of European Integration this semester, and simultaneously putting materials up on iTunes U. Materials include video recordings of the class, PowerPoint presentations and other documents. Once all of the materials are in place, he plans to work on making the course interactive and building in feedback mechanisms.
Blogs, Tweets & Social Media: Writing with Style in the New Millennium – Sandra Jamieson is teaching this course for the first time. It made the short list of Drew Today’s Four New Courses You Wish You’d Taken, where it is described as follows: Do you want to be a brand? Which platform should you use? How much about yourself do you want to reveal? Students in English professor Sandra Jamieson’s class will develop an online presence through a blog or microblog, and practice writing for a wide audience. By the end of the course “They will be familiar with different forms of social media and how they function, so when they go into the workplace, they’ll know how they are used,” Jamieson says. “But they will also understand the social, ethical and philosophical issues social media raise.”
First official use of “Flipped” classroom pedagogy: Drew’s Statistics Courses have been based on industry-standard software, SPSS, for at least 10 years. They were taught in a “Flipped Classroom” format by Kathleen Madden and Sarah Abramowitz in Fall 2012. Kathleen and Sarah used several tools, such as Camtasia screen capture software, in order to flip their class. This is a type of blended learning that allows teachers to use class time to go over homework problems and assign lecture videos for homework. Sarah and Kathleen will show an example of their flipped course and talk about the different tools they used to create it.
Student Portfolios: Leslie Sprout will be showing how she used Wikispaces, a free online application,to have her students create digital protfolios. Since with tool is web based it allows the user to edit their wiki from any computer with internet access. This tool allows users to customize their pages by adding many different types of files such as Word Docs, PDF and audio files.
Walter: New Integrated Catalog for the Library: Guy Dobson’s latest project is called Walter, and he describes it as a new, faceted, user-friendly library catalog, brought into existence “without spending an arm and a leg.” He is accomplishing this by mining data from the Library’s bibliographic database (Unicorn) and indexing that data in a custom-configured open-source search engine (Solr).
Digital Humanities
Linked Ancient World Data Institute: In 2011, John Muccigrosso and two colleagues from the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), Tom Elliott, and Sebastian Heath, were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. This grant provides resources for a two-year series of summer seminars on the possibilities of the Linked Open Data model for use in humanities scholarship with a particular focus on Ancient Mediterranean and Near East studies. The 2012 seminar was hosted by ISAW. This year’s seminar is at Drew, May 30 – June 1: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/12/2nd-linked-ancient-world-data-institute.htmlscheduled for May 31-June 3.
Louis Hamilton Mapping the Madonna: GIS analysis of Paganism & Christianity in the Streets of Rome Based on years of experience using GIS in his ongoing Mapping the Medisval project, Louis has expanded the project to encompass Roman street shrines. Louis collaborated with John Muccigrosso to employ these methods in Rome on the DIS “Rome: Gods, Saints and Talking Statues” in January 2012
Nationally recognized work on Digital Humanities: Martin Foys and Shannon Bradshaw received a $250,000 grant in support of their Digital Mappaemundi tool. “DM is an environment for the study and annotation of images and texts. It is a suite of tools, enabling scholars to gather and organize the evidence necessary to support arguments based in digitized resources. DM enables users to mark fragments of interest in manuscripts, print materials, photographs, etc. and provide commentary on these resources and the relationships among them. A principle objective in this project is to continue to develop our understanding of scholarly work processes in order to effectively support research as it is practiced now, while opening the door for new methods of scholarship to emerge.”DM : Tools For Digital Annotation and Linking
Technology Demonstrations
University Technology staff will be on hand to talk about existing services and upcoming changes, such as Google Apps, WebEx videoconferencing, the FacLab iPad program and Moodle 2.4.