2007 FITS Summer Workshop - Project Proposals
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| BrookeCox: Library |
| Digital Video Shorts @ DePauw Libraries |
| DePauw libraries seek creative and new ways to reach out to students and faculty. In order to provide appealing and effective outreach services we, the librarians, must keep pace with technology and continually develop our technical skills.
This project will be a cooperative effort involving two of the three branch libraries on campus. The goal of the project is to create digital video shorts describing specific resources or services available at the Visual Resource Center and the Prevo Science Library. The videos will be posted in various venues where students and faculty can view them such as the libraries web site and other online sites like YouTube and/or Facebook. |
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| JeremyAnderson: Philosophy |
| Custom multimedia for classroom and the web |
| I've become more and more impressed with how clips of songs, movies, etc. can enhance a lesson, and want to learn how to quickly create and manage them for the web and for the classroom. In particular, I'd like to learn to (1) edit excerpts of apt material from music & video source materials (VHS, DVD, mp3, WAV, Flash, etc), and then (2) translate those clips into appropriately compact formats for web page posting (assuming copyright violations can be avoided), and most importantly (3) get them into a format I can use to play them in classrooms without the need for computer--e.g., put onto CD or DVD so that I can play them with the existing player/TV combos already in many classrooms.
I shall be creating a course in political philosophy this summer which will include an extensive unit on civil disobedience--a topic for which there is ample, interesting multimedia content available. I would like to use the skills outlined above to enhance this unit of the course. This would involve gathering pertinent materials (such as audio & video of major speeches, news photographs, and music) and using them to create at least two kinds of end product: (a) isolated clips to dramatize some point(s) made in the current reading or discussion and (b) montages, some perhaps using PowerPoint, to set up discussion of general issues. These products would end up in at least two places: the classroom and the web. For classroom purposes, it is important to me to be able to create media in a format that is easily usable in lots of different rooms on campus because technology-enhanced classrooms are in limited supply. I would like materials to be web-accessible so that some of the montages, for example, could be assigned as homework--and could then be the subject of discussion either in class and/or on an online discussion board.
Of course there are ready-made films available for teaching purposes, but they don't always cover just what I want to cover, and they tend to be quite expensive. So I would very much value the capability to custom-make such course materials.
Thank you for your consideration. |
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| YanjingWang: Modern Languages |
| Website Design and Computer-assisted exercises for the Chinese language Learning |
| I expect to achieve two goals through the summer workshop. One is to use Dreamweaver or alternative software to design a professional website for the Chinese language learning. Students will easily use all sorts of on-line resources related to both the study of the Chinese language and the Chinese culture. The reason that the Chinese language is regarded as a very different language (from the Western language system) is because of its pictographic characters and pronunciation with tones. It is extremely crucial for beginning learners to set up a solid foundation. The second goal of mine at this workshop is to create on-line exercises related to pronunciation and tones. I will start to create mp3-format audio files as supplementary materials to improve students’ listening skill and upload them to the website. I also would like to start to create video files regarding instructions of basic strokes, stroke orders, and philosophical meanings of some Chinese characters. Through using these on-line supplementary materials, beginning learners will feel easy to approach the Chinese language. All these products are expected to be implemented in the fall of 2007. |
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| KelseyKauffman: University Studies |
| Web Site for Drug Zone Legislation |
| Students in my course, "Prisons, Race, and Gender," created maps at DePauw's GIS Center and collected and analyzed data that shed important light on racial disparities in sentencing under "drug-free zone" legislation in Indiana. Participation in the FITS workshop would allow us to create and maintain a website that presents options to policy makers by demonstrating various combinations of enhanced penalty zones in actual neighborhoods. Once I learn how to create a website, I plan to use websites in all my other courses.
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| KevinHowley: Communication & Theater |
| A Tribute to Russell Compton |
| I am currently working on an audio feature on the life and times of Russell Compton. Over the course of the past few months, I have been recording interviews using a digital audio recorder.
I would like to work on my audio editing skills during the course of the workshop. Doing so will enable me to incorporate audio production/post-production and podcasting into several of my courses, most notably COMM 233 Media, Culture & Society and COMM 334 Media Criticism. I am currently using blogs in these courses, but would like to introduce audio/podcasting features. |
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| TimGood: Communication and Theater |
| Update and Improve Communication and Theater Webpage |
| Last year I was able to enhance the look and the usability of the website for the Department of Communication and Theater. There are several specific needs we have to address now, in order to take the next step in more proactive use of our website.
1 - I need to be able to change the dept website quickly and often. My ability to access and upload new information is still difficult. Once I left the workshop last summer, it was an hour-long process just to get to the new page to update it, and more frustration getting the changes onto the real-time website. I will need to spend the last part of the workshop being sure that I can get to the website from my office. It would also be nice to have a FITS student assigned to me after the workshop, for summer and fall perhaps, who could come by my office once a week maybe, to help coach me;
2 - We like what we have so far. I need to translate current layouts and information into the new webpage format of the university;
3 - One of the priorities put to me by the department is to emphasize the ongoing research and artistic activity of our students and faculty. Once I make sure that I can get to the website in order to change it quickly and often, my next priority is to create pages and links to emphasize the research and artistic work of faculty, staff, and students in the department;
4 - When colleagues in the department send me video, I would like to be able to create new pages quickly in order to cleanly organize the important information that we have. |
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| RebekahLong: English |
| A Medieval & Renaissance Studies Website for the DePauw community |
| Based on needs I perceived while teaching courses on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Arthurian Legend in the English dept. & in discussions with other early period specialists on the faculty and numerous students, I believe that a website dedicated to nurturing the emerging Med-Ren community at DePauw would be a tremendous asset to our intellectual community. In the FITS workshop, I hope to design a website concentrating on Med-Ren studies at DePauw, acting as a virtual pilgrimage site: it will feature faculty bios and courses, links to resources, music and audio files, calls for papers, etc. The website will be visited by students and faculty.
More detail: I am especially committed to creating a broadly-conceived medieval and Renaissance studies site that would attract not only my own seminar students but also provide a showcase for our emerging Med-Ren studies community at DePauw (the website would advertise Med-Ren centered courses and highlight faculty interests, publications, and various accomplishments). I would like to acquire the expertise necessary to build this site and expand it into a space to be visited by our many students interested in early period studies; the site would also be useful for Med-Ren specialists on the DePauw faculty as it can provide a quick way of linking to web information relevant to our research and pedagogical interests.
The website would therefore function as a virtual pilgrimage site for those interested in Med-Ren scholarship (links to journals such as Speculum, Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, SAC, Arthuriana, and JMEMS and upcoming conferences would be organized for easy and convenient access). The website will include numerous links to the hundreds of academic web pages specific to Med-Ren sudies (the Harvard Chaucer website, Shakespeare online, Luminarium, and Labyrinth, for example), manuscripts, audio files (mp3 files of readings in Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Middle and Old Welsh (perhaps wishful thinking as far as the Middle and Old Welsh ar concerned!), and early period music), jpeg images of medieval artwork (LUNA) and film stills, historically-focused fashion sites (Tudor style!), links to on-line versions of medieval texts (TEAMS and other sources). The site can also be used to promote speakers (for example, I have invited the widely-acclaimed scholar of gender and Arthuriana Bonnie Wheeler to campus -- once her visit is negotiated, her talk can be advertised on this site and students can visit to get a sense of her work). Thank you for considering my proposal.
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| KeithTonne: Music |
| Vocalising program |
| I attended the seminar last summer to learn to use Backboard more efficiently. As I understand it, we will be moving on from Blackboard next year, and I would very much like to learn how to use the new platform in my classes & studio teaching.
I would also like to discuss the most efficient way to use technology to organize the Opera production scheduling, etc.. (Web page? Blackboard????)
Finally(but most importantly), I use Finale to write out vocalizes for my students. I would like to learn if it is possible to program an entire series of vocalizes in Finale to help them in their rehearsals.
That is: I’d like to be able to write an exercise, and tell them to begin on C Major and move up by half steps to F Major, then move down by half steps to B flat Major. If students could have this in their laptops, it would free them from having to find a practice room w/a piano, and also keep their focus on their work as opposed to constantly having to focus on the piano keyboard.
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| HirokoChiba: ML |
| Organizing the course materials for a class, using a course management system |
| I would like to organize the course materials for “Japanese Cinema and Anime” which will be offered in the spring of 2008, using a course management system. The course materials will include the syllabus, readings, powerpoint presentations, collection of images, discussion board and links to the resources. In conjunction with the course management site, I would also like to learn more about powerpoint, especially the use of animation. I hope that learning about Japanese films will be more efficient and effective by giving clear instructions online. These skills I will gain during the workshop can be employed for other classes and occasions. |
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