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?

What do you do in your classes?

What are your expectations for using this facility ?

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

Access to Tools

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

File Sharing

Via College server- mid to late Sept.

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

Communication

Collaborative Virtual Workspace

Login: Collaborative Virtual Workspace

Login: sqhntxxPassword: cvwxx

for example:

Login: sqhnt01Password: cvw01

Other tools with similar functionality:

WebCT WebChat, example pages One Minute Paper, Multichat HyperNews: http://www.forums.umd.edu/arthcourse/

hypernews/get/examplecourse.html

Hypernews

Setting up hypernews threaded discussion:

http://www.forums.umd.edu/

Access to Resources

Primary source materials: digitized manuscripts

Visual material, scanned images Video/ Audio Material Multimedia Collections

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?

Put the tools in the hands of the students Oral Presentations with Powerpoint Collaborative projects such as website

creation Research Projects

Resources for Professional Writing http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/

workshops/english/orientnewmediaclassroom.html

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?

What's next? Possibilities

More indepth training sessions Other training opportunities

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

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