iPad app: iMovie for iOS quick FAQs

Did you know you can create video narratives with even just a smartphone? iMovie is just one of the apps available for iOS devices that is being used in classrooms for videos.

iMovie is a simple video editing app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Just recently, Rebecca Ammerman used the iPad 2 and iMovie with her Extended Study Rome group to record and create video narratives on site. You can view her story at the CEL Website.  She brings a unique perspective, as the year previous she and many of her students had brought laptops and video cameras to Athens for a similar project.

Here's a few things you should know about iMovie for iPad.

Summer Workshops for Faculty

Video Narrative

June 6 - 8 
560 Case-Geyer Library
Lead by Sarah Kunze and Debbie Krahmer

The Library and ITS staff are once again offering a three-day video narrative workshop in
June. Many faculty participants from lasts year's workshop went on to assign video
narrative projects in their classes this academic year. With our new Digital Learning &
Media Center on level 5 of Case library slated to open in the Fall of 2012, we now have
dedicated learning spaces for new media, allowing us to offer even better support for
students and faculty.

In order to feel comfortable assigning a video project in a class, our experience has
shown that a faculty member must first create their own video project to get a sense of
what is involved. This workshop offers an opportunity for this to happen. Learn how to
construct a simple video narrative using photos, text, voice recordings, and music.
During the three-day, hands-on workshop we will cover both the aspects of writing a
narrative for video and the technical steps to editing video.

The goal of the workshop is not to make you a video expert, but rather to give you an
appreciation of the process so that you can extend the option to your students as a part
of your course assignments.

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Wikipedia Editing

June 12 - 13 
345 Case-Geyer Library
Lead by Sarah Kunze and Debbie Krahmer

Why should you include an exercise in Wikipedia editing in your course? Hear from Prof.
Noor Khan, along with her Senior Seminar students who completed a project doing just
that for their HIST459 project. Learn how these types of projects improve student engagement
and leave your students with 21st century skills that most will use in their careers and
personal lives. Learn how Campus Ambassadors can assist you with sample syllabi, course
handouts, and help in mapping out a project to address your specific learning goals for
your course.

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The Cure for Cartophobia – A CEL Web Mapping Workshop

June 18 - 19 
345 Case-Geyer Library
Lead by Zlatko Grozl, Jesse Henderson, Peter Rogers, and Dan Wheeler

This workshop will introduce web-based mapping as a teaching tool that can be used in
the classroom and for student projects. The first day will start with Google Maps, move
on to Google Earth including how one can create and add features to Google Earth,
and conclude with a look at user-friendly sources of digital map data such as the
Google Earth Community, geoportals, and the U.S. government’s National Atlas. The
second day will be optional and provide an opportunity for participants to work on a
personal web mapping project with the CEL members leading the workshop.

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Register Online:

https://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/instructional-technology/workshops

Digital Media @ Colgate

                 

During this past semester, 9 classes with 141 students completed digital media projects in eight different subjects. In GERMAN, SOAN, WRITING & RHETORIC, GEOGRAPHY, RUSSIAN, EDUCATION, CLASSICS, & PCON students created podcasts, dubbed foreign language videos, translated and subtitled a full length movie, created video narratives both personal and research-based, collaborated with elders in the community to create life histories for the Hamilton Historical Society, and more.

During the past two years, 32 classes with well over 500 students have completed digital media projects.  With the opening in August 2012 of the new Digital Learning and Media Center, we will be even better positioned to assist faculty in integrating a digital media project into their syllabus. Many of these projects can be viewed on our Academic YouTube channel.

If you are interested in incorporating a digital media assignment into your course in the Fall, please email Sarah Kunze (skunze@colgate.edu)

Digital Posters

Digital posters share the same goals as printed posters: to provide text and visual content in an informative, attractive and concise manner. The digital/virtual posters that we have done so far have been held in the library.  We do need a specialized room that is equipped with computers and additional projectors, (we are currently limited to Case-Geyer 501 and 560). Some of the benefits to the digital poster approach include: no submission limitations to printing, it's much greener, and we can display more than just powerpoint slides. One additional advantage that can be consider moving forward is the ability to include movies/ animations int he poster as opposed to static images. Click here for more information on the digital/virtual posters.

We just wanted to make everyone aware of this option so that if you decided that you would like to have your students do a poster you are not limited to the poster printing schedule. If you would like more information about posters please visit our academic poster site or contact itshelp@colgate.edu and request more information. 

Digital Groundbreaking for Digital Learning and Media Center

Today marks the "Digital Groundbreaking" for Colgate's Digital Learning and Media Center (DLMC), opening in the Fall, 2012 semester on the fifth floor of the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology. The renovation is made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Anita Grover, MD '74 and Tom Hargrove, P '14.

The Collaboration for Enhanced Learning (CEL) and the Digital Media Team have been working with faculty over the past ten years, making do with the technologies and spaces available, from the basement of McGregory Hall, to borrowing space from our generous colleagues in Little Hall, to a temporary setup in the Batza classroom, Case-Geyer 560).

During this time, we have seen dramatic growth in the number of courses and student projects involving digital media assignments, evidence for the claim that effective communication with digital media is an emerging critical skill for the Liberal Arts graduate.

2004 - 19 student video projects

2008 - 109 student video projects

2010-2012 - averaging 200 projects per year

The Digital Learning and Media Center will provide a collaborative, dynamic space where students and faculty can work together on digital media projects, where faculty can teach interdisciplinary courses that incorporate digital media assignments, and where technologists and librarians can deliver workshops to faculty, staff, and students alike.

The Digital Learning and Media Center is strategically located in two ways: first, it will be instantly visible upon entering the 5th floor of Case-Geyer; second, it will be adjacent to a suite of offices that will be occupied by members of CEL and the Digital Media team, who will be available to assist students with their projects.

The facility will provide one-stop shopping for students, where they can:

• ·      check out equipment to record content (cameras, audio recorders, etc);
• ·      receive instruction from faculty, IT and Library experts;
• ·      edit their work on high-end Macintosh computers;
• ·      present the final product using state of the art projection and audio facilities.