Wesleyan’s Academic Technology Roundtable

1. Wesleyan’s AcademicTechnology Roundtable Michael Roy Director of Academic Computing Services & Digital Library Projects Michael.roy@wesleyan.edu Slides: http://mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talks/nercomp-cop-oct04/

2. Overview • Partners • History • Logistics & Costs • Sample Programs • Projects/Initiatives • Context • Academic Commons

3. Partners • Library • Academic Computing Services • Center for Faculty Career Development • 2GFYI (First Year Initiative, 2nd Generation)

4. Context #1: Aerial Geography

5. RegisteringRequesting ServicesSchedulingAnnouncingAuthorizing Administration SelectingReflectingEvaluating sourcesChoosing textsCategorizing Planning & Advising Writing, publishing,analyzing,critical reading, discussing, graphing,simulating, annotating,comparing, contrasting,mapping, editing Learning & Teaching QuizzingGrading Testing Assessing Context # 2: Cyclical Academic Process

6. Conext #3: Evolution of Instructional Services (at Wesleyan) Learning Object Development Digitization Service WebTech Program Course Management Systems Smart Classrooms Instructional Support (separate from desktop support) Resnet Public Computing Labs 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

7. History of Academic Technology Roundtable • Began Fall 1998 • Modeled after the TLTR (Teaching,Learning, Technology Roundtable) http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/TLTR/home.htm • Academic not Teaching/Learning quite on purpose

8. Logistics • ATR=Weekly lunchtime talk • Web Page (http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ ) • Planning group (meets twice a year) • Email notifications/calendar • Faculty list • Library list • Ad hoc list (subscribable via web)

9. Costs • 22 lunches x 30 people x $7/lunch=$4,620 • Speakers from outside (4 x $500=$2,000) • Administration/marketing FREE!

10. Sample Programs:Why Blackboard? Three faculty who have recently decided to start using Blackboard will discuss their decision-making process for choosing to use Blackboard, and their plans and strategies for making effective use of it. David Westmoreland (Chemistry), Mary Alice Haddad (Government), and Kim Root (Dance) will lead the discussion.

11. What are Scholarly Communications and why it matters to liberal arts education? Scholarly Communications used to mean books, journals, and conference proceedings. As the scholarly world has become increasingly digital, the format and possibilities for how academics share information are rapidly changing, and not always for the better.Barbara Jones, Steve Bischof, and Michael Roy will frame the general question of what scholarly communications are,describe some specific and very real problems that the scholarly community faces, and outline some possible solutions (and problems with those solutions.) See also the ATR Scholarly Communications Working Group Website

12. "Science and Art" as a possible General Education Course at Wesleyan The science and technology involved in creating, understanding, authenticating and conserving works of art presents an interesting possibility for the development of a General Education course or courses at Wesleyan that carries NSM expectation credit. This past summer we have compiled a considerable amount of source material and links to web sites in this subject area. An overview of this initiative will be presented along with an examination of some of the best web sites, some quite dynamic, containing related material.Presenters: Mariah Klaneski ''04, David Beveridge (Chemistry and 2GFYI)

13. Projects/Initiatives • Scholarly Communications Working Group • Visual Resources Working Group • Teaching Matters • Academic Web Architecture • Information Commons

14. faculty development faculty development faculty development technologists technologists technologists librarians librarians librarians faculty faculty faculty

15. Academic Commons • http://www.academicommons.org

20. Stay Informed ATR Mailing List http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ Academic Commons Announcements http://www.academiccommons.org