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Why? English New Media Classroom

Why? English New Media Classroom. Chris Higgins, Instructional Technology Specialist, OIT Catherine Hays, Associate Director, Academic Technology, College of ARHU Lenita Williamson, Campus Computing Associate, College of ARHU. Getting to know you. Who are you? What do you teach?

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Why? English New Media Classroom

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  1. Why? English New Media Classroom Chris Higgins, Instructional Technology Specialist, OIT Catherine Hays, Associate Director, Academic Technology, College of ARHU Lenita Williamson, Campus Computing Associate, College of ARHU

  2. Getting to know you • Who are you? What do you teach? • What do you do in your classes? • What are your expectations for using this facility ?

  3. WAM login • Ask for a login if you don’t have a current wam account. • Getting WAM account: • ftp to wam.umd.edu, type register, fill in information • See Kathy Russell to have account authorized, krussell@deans.umd.edu, • 5-2116

  4. Access to Tools • Word Processor • Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker… • Image Editing: Photoshop… • Presentation Graphics: Powerpoint… • Internet: email, WWW, file sharing… • Webpage Creation: Dreamweaver… • VCR • Projection

  5. File Sharing • Via College server- mid to late Sept.

  6. File Sharing • File distribution via the web- • http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/English/instructors/GOliver/TechnicalWriting/ • Inform via WebSpinner • Wam or Glue via direct FTP

  7. Communication • Collaborative Virtual Workspace

  8. Login: Collaborative Virtual Workspace Login: sqhntxx Password: cvwxx for example: Login: sqhnt01 Password: cvw01

  9. Other tools with similar functionality: • WebCT • WebChat, example pages • One Minute Paper, Multichat • HyperNews: • http://www.forums.umd.edu/arthcourse/hypernews/get/examplecourse.html

  10. Hypernews • Setting up hypernews threaded discussion: • http://www.forums.umd.edu/

  11. Access to Resources • Primary source materials: digitized manuscripts • Visual material, scanned images • Video/ Audio Material • Multimedia Collections

  12. Small Group Collaboration • What did you find at the site that you did not expect to? • What might your students find useful at these sites? • How do these sites deal with similar material differently? • What might be challenging about using these sites as resources?

  13. Put the tools in the hands of the students • Oral Presentations with Powerpoint • Collaborative projects such as website creation • Research Projects

  14. Resources for Professional Writing • http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/workshops/english/orientnewmediaclassroom.html

  15. Assessment:email, CVW, Hypernews • What are some things that you think you could use this room for? • What questions do you still have? • Is there anything that we did not touch on that you would like to know about?

  16. What's next? Possibilities • More indepth training sessions • Other training opportunities

  17. Technology tools can help you: • address challenges that you face • meet the needs of different learning styles • respond to diverse populations • facilitate greater participation by the students • improve students writing and research skills • provide access to Resources: Web, CDRom, DVD • prepare students for academic and professional worlds

  18. Resources • Chris Higgins, 5-5190, chiggins@deans.umd.edu • Catherine Hays, 5-2886, chays@deans.umd.edu • Lenita Williamson, • Lw176@umail.umd.edu • New Instructional Technology staff member

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