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Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Faculty-Staff Seminar on New Media. UCB Library Lightning Talk February 29, 2012. The Seminar: Fall 2011. http://ets.berkeley.edu/new-media-seminar UC Berkeley, Baylor, Benedictine, Houston Community College, Queensland, Virginia Tech… And Second Life!
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Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Faculty-Staff Seminar on New Media UCB Library Lightning Talk February 29, 2012
The Seminar: Fall 2011 • http://ets.berkeley.edu/new-media-seminar • UC Berkeley, Baylor, Benedictine, Houston Community College, Queensland, Virginia Tech… • And Second Life! • Theory, practice, and issues relating to pedagogy
Participants in Fall 2011 • Faculty • Very junior to emeriti • Lecturers and academic staff • ETS staff • Librarians Three • Experience with new media varied widely
Reaching Out • Representing the Library in a space where technology and teaching are being discussed • Interacting with faculty and staff from across campus • Making connections?
Class Dynamics • Time (lack thereof) • Ambitious • Varied experience with new media
Technology and Pedagogy • Anxieties re UC Online • Guest lecturers – Skype and Blackboard Collaborate • How to improve how we teach now • Replace lectures? • Use social media to communicate, discuss • Replace traditional assignments
You have to start somewhere… • http://tinyurl.com/Moffitt-exhibit • Finding my twitter password again… • Class assignments that involve writing wikipedia articles
What about YOU? • NMS may be offered again in the Fall…let’s talk! • ETS events • Social media brownbag • Faculty Buzz