Rock The Academy Multimedia

integrating multimedia across the curriculum

Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded LearningNovember 6, 2008

Holly WillisElizabeth RamseyDanielle MihramNancy LutkehausLynn Swartz Dodd

– mandated by the provost in 2006– formed in collaboration with the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences– defined by College and IML faculty and staff– dependent on four main principles

– deep integration of the multimedia lab and course concept– an expanded definition of literacy– equal emphasis on critical skills and production– learning how to learn how to use software

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE PROGRAM

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE PROGRAM

Literacies:: digital literacy

(basic protocols):: network literacy

(scholarly identity, appropriate uses):: argument

(via images, sounds, interactivity):: design literacy

(control of form/content):: information literacy

(fair use, copyright, citation)

Sample Multimedia in the Core classes:Linguistics 295gThe Ancient Near East: Culture, Archaeology, TextsStudents created animated annotations of ancient cylinder seals and used an extensive wiki.

- Earth Sciences 240LgEarthquakesProfessors Jim Dolan and Charles SammisStudents created 5-minute video documentaries about a famous earthquake, incorporating research, interviews and 3-D imagery.

- Philosophy 255gLove and its Representations in Philosophy, Literature and FilmProfessor Ed McCannStudents created PowerPoint arguments focusing on visual argumentation.

- Geology 107 Lxg / OceanographyProfessor William Berelson

– Geology 125 Lxg / Earth History: A Planet and its EvolutionProfessor Frank Corsetti

- SLL 330g / Russian Thought and CivilizationProfessor Sally Pratt

- Anthropology 235g / The Changing Pacific: Culture, History and Politics in the New South SeasProfessor Nancy Lutkehaus

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE PROGRAM // Spring 2008

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAM

– two options:with 2-unit MDA 140 practicumwithout 2-unit MDA 140 practicum

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAM

with MDA 140 practicum110-minute weekly practicum/discussioncovers five foundational literaciesskills and concepts taught by TAuse of Taper Labs and equipmentclose collaboration with IML staffcourse re-design to incorporate mediaassignment drafting suggestionsgrading rubrics

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAM

without MDA 140 practicumno formal practicum sectionslab time must be scheduleduse of Taper Labs and equipment

(based on availability)skills and concepts taught by TA and/or IML staffclose collaboration with IML staffsupport for one media-based assignmentcourse re-design to incorporate mediaassignment drafting suggestionsgrading rubrics

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAM

Lab Equipment:: 74 video cameras (Sony DCR-SR100):: 9 audio recorders:: 74 still cameras (Canon A700):: 74 tripods:: 50 external hard drives

(for use in lab only):: 4 scanners:: Photoshop, Premiere, Flash,

PowerPoint, Audition, Encore,Dreamweaver, Sophie

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE PROGRAM

ideas:: blog or wiki for student responses:: sophisticated PowerPoint analysis, argument

and annotation:: video production and editing:: Web-based tools for writing and research:: social bookmarking as class activity

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices

what we need:media and design across the curriculumnew teaching practices

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices

what we need:media and design across the curriculumnew teaching practices

why?

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices

Our students have new skills and new needs:

Play JudgmentPerformance Collective IntelligenceSimulation Transmedia NavigationAppropriation NetworkingMultitasking Negotiation

Distributed Cognition

“Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture:Media Education for the 21st Century”Henry Jenkins

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices

Studies indicate a very different future for education:

User Created ContentSocial NetworkingMobile PhonesVirtual WorldsNew Forms of Scholarship and PublicationMassively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

“Six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education within the next one to five years.”Horizon Report 2007, New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices

We need to move away from outmoded teaching models:

Formal –> InformalCompetitive –> CollaborativeAcquisition –> ProcessGeneralized –> PersonalizedInside –> OutsideStudent –> LearnerClosed –> Open

Holly WillisInstitute for Multimedia [email protected]

Elizabeth RamseyInstitute for Multimedia [email protected]

Danielle MihramSpecial Projects [email protected]

Nancy LutkehausProfessor, [email protected]

Lynn Swartz DoddLecturer, [email protected]

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