Dickinson College Media Center

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Social Networking for Departments & Organizations

August 1, 2011 /

Description

We all know that (almost) everyone uses social networking on a daily basis, especially students.  It would be great to meet people in these places so our organizations can connect with people on a more meaningful way.  This is not an easy task but there are some great resources and best practices that can help promote your organization and connect with the people you are trying to reach.

During this session will go over the heavy hitters of social media (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube….) and try to find which platforms would be best for your organization to try to use.  We will also discuss statistically what works well on these platforms and what doesn’t so you will be better informed on things that might engage your audience better than others.

Audience

Faculty, Staff, Students

Type

Instructor Led-Overview-Some hands on

Time

45 Minutes – 1 hour

Outcomes

  • Be able to understand the differences between social media platforms
  • Learn best practices to use when trying to engage your audience
  • Learning ways to dynamically feed content between different social media platforms

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

WordPress Blog

August 1, 2011 /

Description

Dickinson hosts it’s own installation of WordPress MU (Multi User) and any class can choose to have a blog set up for their students to blog.  Wordpress is a very user friendly platform and most people easily adapt to using the program quickly.  Each person’s posts can be track for grading purposes and the platform is well suited to help engage dialogue inside and outside of the classroom.  It can be open for the public to view or closed down so only the students within the course can read the content of the posts.

This session consists of walking the students through the process of logging into the system and posting at least one test post to get accustom to the software.

Audience

Faculty & Students

Type

Instructor Led-Hands on

Time

30-45 Minutes-In Class Time

Outcomes

  • Learn location of class blog
  • Receive account information to login
  • Learn basics of posting, uploading media, & commenting
  • Post first post to blog

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

Research and Organizational Tools

August 1, 2011 /

Description

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an easy, timely  way for people to keep up with what is going on at their favorite websites.  In the past, if you wanted to know if something new was posted on a site, you would have manually go to the site to see.  RSS is a way of sending those new little bits right to you.  You need to use some sort of program to collect all of this information so you can read it when you are interested.  In that way, it’s kind of like email because you open one program and all of the information is there no matter who sent it to you.

During this training we will cover what RSS is and discuss the many ways you can connect with the information these sites are sending out.  You can read it, reply to it, publicize it and other options.

Audience

Faculty, Staff, Students

Type

Instructor Led-Hands on, Overview or both

Time

20-30 minutes

Outcomes

  • Learn what RSS is and how to connect with sites that use it
  • Learn about different RSS readers
  • Learn how to search for more sites using RSS

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

Digital Storytelling

August 1, 2011 /

Description

“Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one’s own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.”

–University of Houston

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn.
Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story & it will live in my heart forever.”
-Indian Proverb

“Digital Storytelling is the modern
expression of the ancient art of storytelling.
Digital stories derive their power
by weaving images, music, narrative
& voice together, thereby giving deep dimension
and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences,
and insights.”

– Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling

Audience

Faculty and Students

Type

Instructor Led – Overview or Hands on

Time

1 hour

Outcomes

  • Understand various styles/technologies available to create DS
  • Use a story prompt to start writing script
  • Know places to collect resources available through a Creative Commons License

Want to learn more?  Take a sneak peek at our training outline.

 

Advanced Video Editing

August 1, 2011 /

Description

Video projects can take on many forms and some stories are move involved than others.  The Media Center understands this and is prepared to train classes in higher level video editing when projects require more than what IMovie has to offer.  Final Cut Express is located in the Bosler Microroom and Media Center is a main program students use when creating a short film for Film courses.  We walk the class through the whole process of editing by working with them in a lab for a few hours.  We are also available to assist them as they are working on their projects during the rest of the semester.  The Media Center becomes a second home to these students as they work through building their projects and shaping their stories.

Audience

Faculty & Students in Film Classes

Type

Hands On-Instructor Led

Time

2-3 Hours-In Class Time

Outcomes

  1. Know how to use the software program Final Cut Express to import & edit video
  2. Have observed a variety of course related video examples.
  3. Know best practices to use when writing script.
  4. Be provided online resources to help you get started finding creative commons audio, video or image files.

Examples

The Beatles: Fame in the 21st Century- Documentary

Professor Liza Trevino- Social Documentary Course

 

Silent Witness

Prof Stephanie Gilmore

 

SAM

Language Lab Intro

August 1, 2011 /

Description:

Dickinson College’s language departments have a wide variety of technologies to provide authentic language resources, extend the classroom, and bring students in contact with native speakers.  Language courses frequently organize language exchanges via Skype, create multimedia projects in the target language, and use software that allows students to practice the four basic skills.  Interested professors should contact Todd Bryant, Dickinson’s Language Technologist, at bryantt@dickinson.edu.

Can 8 is  a language learning system that allows students to listen to audio or video tracks then respond verbally or with a written response.  Student answers are recorded and can be monitored by the professor.  Standard multiple choice, true/false and fill in the blank questions are also available.  Questions can be organized for assignments, test reviews or oral exams..

Skype is widely used in the language departments to coordinate language exchanges with native speakers.  Todd Bryant created a website called The Mixxer that connects language learners with each other.  This is an open site for anyone in the world to connect with.  Because of this, we are able to connect our students with individual language partners either during a lab hour or outside of class.

Antidote is a program used in the French department and is a plugin that appears within Microsoft Word to aid in students spelling and grammar while writing.  In addition to providing corrections, the software links the incorrect words or phrases to reference books of French grammar built into the program.

Audience

Language Faculty & Students

Type

Instructor Led-Overview

Time

20-30 Minutes-In Class Time

Outcomes

  • Learn about language software available in labs
  • Learn about online resources that will aid in language learning
  • Learn the multilingual functions available on OSX and Windows
  • Learn where the Media Center is located and how to get technology assistance

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

Storyboarding using Comic Life

January 17, 2011 /

Description

Comic Life is  a program you can create comics with but it can be used in so many different ways that you may not have considered .  Classes at Dickinson have used it for storyboarding, lab manuals, presentations and of course comics as well.  It is a program that is easy and fun to use and allows students to be creative by having so many options available to customize their final piece.  It is located in the Bosler Microroom (020) and the Media Center.  It can also be downloaded from plasq.com to use as a trial version although it will leave a watermark on anything printed from it.

Audience

Faculty & Students

Type

Instructor Led-Hands On

Time

30 Minutes – In Class Time

Outcomes

  • Learn to organize project into outline
  • Migrate outline into visual form
  • Understand fair use and where to locate Creative Commons images
  • Understand basics of good graphic design and layouts

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

Examples

Professor Dave Ball-Graphic Narratives

In this English course Professor Ball has his students read a series of graphic novels and create one page comics in response to the reading. This class has been taught 3 times with a blog associated with each one to display the comic responses.

Fall 2010

Fall 2009

Spring 2008

Professor Kristi Humphreys-Chemistry

Professor Humphreys had her students create one or two page comics describing common practices students must know to use equipment in the lab.  The comics could then be combined to format a reference manual to use when doing experiments.

Professor Tom Arnold-Biology

Each student in his class on Metabolism was assigned a metabolic disorder that they had to research and present on.  Half of the grade for the project was based on a 5-6 page manuscript with a detailed review of the chosen topic.  Comic Life was used to create a graphic illustration to describe the disorder and used as the basis of the presentation.  The presentation and graphic were each a quarter of the grade for the project.

 

 

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Multimedia Presentations

January 14, 2011 /

Description

Although Powerpoint is widely used as the main slideshow program, there are interesting alternatives that can give your presentations a different style and depth.  These also are good options for embedding multiple media elements.  The two programs we train on are Prezi & Vuvox.  Both are alternative slideshow programs but deliver the content in very different ways.  These are online programs so they can be edited anywhere and can be left private or opened up for the public to view.

Audience

Faculty and Students

Type

Instructor Led-Hands on

Time

30-50 Minutes In Class Time

Outcomes

  • Understand best practices in presenting
  • Understand presentation formatting styles
  • Ability to incorporate audio, video, images and text into a presentation

Sites

Vuvox Collage

Prezi

Haiku Deck

Tableau

Google Drive

Prezi manual

Clean Slate

Text heavy

Examples

Professor Liz Lewis- Educational Psychology Class

View images from Professor Lewis’s student presentations here.

Prezi

Prezi is a flash based presentation program that is one large canvas where you add multiple images, videos and text.  It doesn’t have traditional slides but instead you can pan and zoom across the canvas in any direction to quickly focus in on one element.  The creator has the ability of programming the Prezi to follow along a certain path so that gives the feeling of a more traditional slideshow.

Race in the Classroom: A Cultural Analysis of the Achievement Gap on Prezi

Wayang Kulit: Balinese Shadow Puppets from The Trout Gallery Collection. on Prezi

Vuvox

Vuvox describes itself as a collage and is a rectangular display where you can pan forward or backwards across the collage.  Vuvox lends itself well to a very image rich presentation.  It integrates all of the elements seamlessly and allows you overlap items to keep everything connected.  It also has a cutout function which gives you the tool to cut certain sections out of image so it blends well into the next image, combining the two in a sense.

Gapminder

Prezi-Ted Talk-Metaphor

Prezi – Ted Talk – Chris Anderson

Ted Talk – Sir Ken Robinson

Ted Talks – Jaw Dropping

GIS

GIS Overview

January 14, 2011 /

Instructional & Media Services has a full time GIS Specialist on our staff to support GIS projects in all disciplines.  Our specialist, Jim Ciarrocca, is available for consultations on possible projects.  Here are a few examples of past GIS workshops.

Introduction to GIS

GIS (Geographic Information System) is a way of capturing, analyzing, and displaying data in a spatial manner. While Google Earth may be able to perform some of these functions, ESRI, the GIS software supported on campus, allows for the entry and analysis of much larger and sophisticated data sets. Faculty in Geology and Environmental Studies are already using this software for their classes or research.  This workshop will demonstrate how faculty from other departments across the curriculum can use GIS to display information spatially in a manner that is accessible for everyone.

GIS: Making Simple Maps

In this introductory workshop we will explore using geographic information system (GIS) software from ESRI to build a simple map.  We will start with a predefined lesson and data set.  Tasks will include layering the data onto a base map, classifying and symbolizing the information, adding a title and legend, and saving the finished map in a format suitable for publication.

Introduction to Spatial Literacy

Understanding how to think about problems and concepts in a spatial context is a fundamental skill that is not well taught in the American educational system.  Often referred to as “Spatial Literacy”, this type of thinking focuses on understanding the importance of geographic space, and the relationships formed by this space.  Spatial Literacy is not a stand-alone subject, but rather it is a way of thinking that cuts across all fields of studies, and is becoming increasingly important as a necessary skill for liberal arts graduates across all disciplines.  A powerful technology for engaging spatial thinking is called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which provides sophisticated tools for collecting, managing, analyzing, and visualizing spatial data.

Google Earth allows users to embed and display information on top of a representation of the world created via satellite photos.  In this workshop we’ll go over basic navigation of the Google Earth interface, as well as Google sponsored layers, including historical maps and government data bundled with the latest release of Google Earth.  Finally, we’ll demonstrate how you can enter your own text and images, and then attach them to a location.

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Video Projects

January 14, 2011 /

Instructional & Media Services supports a wide range of video projects in classes from many different disciplines.  These projects don’t have to be big and involved to be effective and we work with each Professor to help find what the best level of technology is for their course and project idea.  As with most projects, it is best to plan out a time line with smaller assignments due over time to ensure students are on the right track.  This usually involves writing a short script or storyboard and also gathering some source material to submit prior to editing the final piece.  Most people think of video projects as always using a camera but many projects use only still images that are panned & zoomed across to give the allusion of movement (ala Ken Burns). A narration is then added over the images to create the final video. IMS will set up a time to come into the class to train the students on the technologies needed.  This may only be IMovie for a project that is using images instead of actual video.  Otherwise, we may train on how to use & checkout our video equipment and how to use the higher level video editing program Final Cut Express.  The Media Center is a the physical resource where the students will be able to work to complete their project while getting support from IMS staff.

Training Session Information

Audience: Faculty & Students Type: Instructor Led-Hands on Time 1 – 1 1/2 hours  in-class time

Outcomes/Objectives:

Upon completion of this workshop, you will:

  1. Know how to use the software programs IMovie to record & edit video
  2. Have observed a variety of course related video examples.
  3. Know best practices to use when writing script.
  4. Be provided online resources to help you get started finding creative commons audio, video or image files.

Want to know more?  Contact  mediacenter at dickinson.edu to set up a consultation.  You can also get a sneak peek of what we cover in our training by looking over our Training Outline.

Examples

Independent Study

Beautifully Fragile

Composting on Dickinson’s Campus

Threads for Thought

Professor Michael Fratantuono

Global Economy Course

Students were asked to create mini lectures about assigned topics.  These videos serve as a supplement to the course as Professor Fratantuono can show these in place of some traditional lectures and promote additional discussion the topics. http://youtu.be/Art6Kw2xN6U

Professor Jim Hoefler-Policy Studies

Policy & Management Senior Seminar students compose DVDs for non-profit organizations in the local community. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNQIcK5OGzQ

Professor Sherri Lullo-Asian Art History

Students were each assigned a piece of Asian Art held by the college’s Trout Gallery and used the Ken Burns effect to display images of the piece while telling the story of it’s history. Full list of videos can be seen here http://blogs.dickinson.edu/introartsofasia/files/2010/11/box.mov

Professor Ed Webb-Political Science

Students in his First Year Seminar course “Science Friction~Dystopian Visions”, were able to make a media project to post to the blogs they were maintaining during the semester.  This was a great piece that Ellen Kaveevittayakun created. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGTgFY_7K8 She also does a great job of creating a credits page. This is a perfect example of fair use mashup for education.

Chemistry

http://youtu.be/tTCLOe_2GXE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=745DTlmvw5U

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