Provost Charles Harrington
Saturday at the DCC 2007.
Digital Images and Writing
Panel Discussion:
Incorporating Digital Visual Images into Writing:
How to hook students into becoming critical
lookers and transition them into critical readers.
Writing educators need to incorporate more visual concepts into
the "composition" of academic writing. Students need to become
more critical readers. This panel will discuss ways to make
them critical of the images they DO see on a regular basis then
try to transition them into being critical readers.
Session moderators: Mark Branson & Richard Vela
Mark Branson
Richard Vela
Digital Music
Dr. Larry Arnold is Co-Founder of the Digital Academy.
He is a professor in the UNCP Music Department and
teaches for the Media Integration project.
A Classical (Digital) Musical Journey into Podcasting
Elizabeth and Jonathan Maisonpierre, UNCP Department of Music, produced a series of five podcasts that explained the repertoire
they later performed in concert. Through this project, they learned,
by trial and error, the steps to producing a podcast with Garageband.
In this conference presentation, the Maisonpierres will discuss the inspiration behind their work, their production process, as
well as the benefits to them and to their audience. If you plan to attend, listen to the podcasts at this URL first! http://web.mac.com/jmaisonpierre
Digital Tools in Business
Augmenting the Traditional
CurriculumThis two part presentation demonstrates
(1) technological enhancement of Economics classes using comprehensive, commercially availalbe teaching aid packages, and
(2) the use of TV advertisements (using QuickTime in
PowerPoint or KeyNote slides) in explaining marketing
principles as well as international business.
Cooper Maysami
Video Podcasts in the Economics
classroom, on the Web and in Blackboard
The use of digitized materials in teaching can create a richer learning experience and allow for greater interactivity student-to-student and student-to-professor. Bill Wendt will discuss both the development of
audio and video materials and their ultimate use in the classroom, online, and as podcasts. His teaching modules cover
economics, statistics, and general navigation issues.
William Wendt
Digital Imagery in Youth Culture
Caroline Brooks
Aristotle defined Rhetoric as the art and means of persuasion, incorporating a number of classical rhetorical tropes such as anaphora, metaphor, ellipsis, and metalepsis, amongst others. While these classical rhetorical tropes are currently applicable within the realm of the textual, a new form of rhetoric is beginning to dominate communication within today’s youth culture – Digital Imagery. Digital Imagery serves as a form of visual rhetorical persuasion, where imagery replaces text as the primary form of communication. Just as text is read sequentially from left to right, images are read horizontally within a visual composition. Images carry semiotic codes connected to, but not dependent on, verbal or written text. Visual rhetoric is ubiquitous – it appears in a multitude of media, from advertisements and television to magazines and web sites. It is relevant because the images comprising visual rhetoric represent social constructs with structural, political and cultural implications. This presentation will explore how each of Aristotle’s classical rhetorical tropes translate into the visual, digital imagery of primary youth culture communication mediums such as the Internet and video games.
A Journalistic Side to Podcasting and Blogging - Group Presentation
College Journalism Students
Students in an advanced feature writing class in the University’s journalism minor are assigned to write a commentary, fashioned after National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” series. They record it as a Podcast in our computer lab, and we upload the most polished and timely pieces to our new journalism minor
webpage. The workshop presentation will cover
the assignment and include Podcast samples.
Cheryl Spainhour
This presentation defines Web logs and the concept of “citizen journalism” in contrast to traditional media organizations. Trends in jurisprudence concerning the First Amendment rights of independents in the “Blogosphere” will be discussed with reference to recent case law. Highlights include libel law, invasion of privacy lawsuits, and copyright. While explaining the protections afforded to internet service providers by legislation such as the Communications Decency Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it should be noted that bloggers are not similarly judgment-proof. However, it is not out of place to say that most of the losers in these areas of “cyberlaw” have committed egregious offenses that do not represent the vast output of independent journalists, pundits, and hobbyists.
Jamie Litty
It is increasingly important that community journalists incorporate digital technology into their reporting. In a world where YouTube and personal blogs are filling cyberspace, self-elected journalists are making a significant impact on the "news to know." What are some of the ways small newspapers and other community news outlets are responding to the exponential increase of online publishing and community involvement/feedback?
Journalism Production
Two Presentations:
Electronic Field Production
The ins and outs of gathering
digital images
and audio in the field.
and
Putting the Audio in Audio Recording
Turning a plain voice recording into a compelling
piece of audio journalism.
Arts in the Digital Realm
John Holloway
The notion of seriously considering the Simulation world as a career path for the Digital Fine Artist may seem not only daunting but perhaps simply out of the question. When one considers the technical, intellectual, aesthetic and practical opportunities and rewards
possible it might warrant reconsideration.The artist has a lot to
bring to the engineering world that is not only needed but is
recognized more now than ever before.
George Johnson
In the past, it took a remote television production truck and a large crew to produce a multi-camera video of a musical performance. Today it can be accomplished with several Digital Video camcorders, a computer and minimal crew. For example, the 23rd annual Holiday Reunion Jam was videotaped with one cameraman operating three cameras. Performances from seven different bands were edited into a 60 minute television program. These performances can be viewed on local cable channels as well as a podcast feed. The workflow for this editing process will be examined including capturing, syncing, color-correcting, audio mixing and encoding. NOTE for K-12 teachers! This same process could be used to create videos of school musical events!
John Antoine Labadie
This demonstration presentation will focus on several powerful core functions in the world's most popular professional digital imaging software tailored for beginners through intermediate Photoshop users. If you know a little you will learn a lot more; if you know very little be sure to bring a notebook!
Rick Gay, Art Department, will present a basic introduction to ARTstor, its content and capabilities, as well as how he uses it in and out of the classroom. This resource is available to all faculty, staff and students through the Sampson-Livermore Library.
Instructional Handouts are available at: http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/instructional_handouts.jsp
Richard Gay
Accessing Books 24/7 and CAMIO for the Classroom
CAMIO or Catalog of Art Museum Images Online provides educators, students, researchers, and other users with high-quality
digital art images from the world’s finest art museums.
The CAMIO library includes over 90,000 images from a
wide-ranging scope of artistic fields including photography,
painting, sculpture, and architecture. All images are rights-cleared
for educational use and can be downloaded and e-mailed.
collection which provides users with full-text access to over
100 different Information Technology areas. These online books are fully searchable and come from industry leading publishers such as Wrox, McGraw-Hill, and Microsoft Press.
Books 24/7’s specialized content is aimed at information
technology users from professional experts to novice.
Anthony Holderied
Gina Gibson
Digital Tools in the Creative Classroom
The need to be digitally literate applies to both the instructor and the student. This hands-on workshop for K-12 teachers will focus on how to get students more interested in digital images as a means of creative production. It is important for teachers to remind students of the creative process behind many of the things they are already interested in like movies, music, and TV. The workshop will include an introduction to online resources for students to view. Photoshop Elements will be used to discuss how students can create personal images for use both on the web and in print.
Creating Learning Objects
Creating Online Interactive and
Media-rich Learning Objects for Students
This presentation will showcase a few resources that faculty can
create using free (or fairly inexpensive) and intuitive software products. The sample resources being presented will hopefully provide faculty with ideas for learning objects that can be placed online to
support distance education courses or to
augment
traditional face-to-face course resources.
Michael Alewine
Debbie Thompson