53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES): The Politics of Comparison
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Location: Bell 207
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
Integrating new technologies and undertaking practice-driven, creative research that reflects an increasingly digital approach to scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, four (4) educators at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, are initializing a unique classroom called The Center for Expressive Culture (CEC). Its purposes are to train anthropology and sociology majors to interpret expressive culture beyond traditional definitions and to study art, film, media, poetry, dance, and performance in their many cross-cultural manifestations. This interactive session will be held in the CEC so that conference-goers can witness the site in action. In a panel-discussion format, the four faculty members will demonstrate its key features and explore the challenges and benefits of undertaking interdisciplinary collaboration. They will explain how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching and scholarship in this ever-changing environment, and they will share how “best practices” are transferring from one discipline to another. Featuring student projects informed by digital tools, methods, and state-of-the-art technologies, they will discuss how the CEC enables them to work beyond disciplinary and geographical boundaries and to access the “best practices” in education. Finally, they will explore how other cultures’ ideas about expressive culture may influence their future designs and directions.
The Center For Expressive Culture Website
Panelist: William Danaher, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston, SC 29424 – Teaching the Sociology of Music
Sociology of music focuses on how the sociological perspective can be illuminated by using music as the unit of analysis. This session discusses how the use of visual elements and musical performance helps students to more clearly understand the role of music in society.
Jerry Spiller, M.S.I.S., Language Resource Center Director, College of Charleston, SC 29424 – Resource Selection and Evaluation in the Multimedia Classroom
Information professionals today must address both the hard and soft needs of users under no shortage of real world restraints. This session will explore the issues in resource selection and evaluation in a newly developed course in a new facility. Care must be taken to address a range of technical proficiencies among both students and faculty, with a realization the classroom time is finite and valuable. Further, familiarity with a technology may be a help or hindrance its adoption for new uses. Budgeting and institutional issues must always be taken into careful consideration. Heuristics for resource selection will be examined and taken from theory to practice in light of the development of the Center for Expressive Culture.
- 1) Coordination between Center for Expressive Culture and Language Resource Center, each learning lessons from the other
http://delicious.com/yeri/anthropology.center - 2) Adapting Jakob Nielson’s Heuristics for Usabiity (http://iqcontent.com/publications/features/article_32/ )
- 3) User Control and Freedom
- 4) Consistency and Standards
- 7) Flexibility and Efficiency of Use
- Some Issues:
- Portability: Flip Cams, Belkin recorders
- Open Source software: Available for students on personal machines
- Mac Lab on a non-Mac campus
intellectual understanding and the hands-on practical skills necessary to make anthropologically-informed films or videos, and/or to
effectively incorporate visuals (stills/film/video) into their research.
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- 2) The Course Container/Facilitating Course Communication in a Team Taught Course: Syllabus > WebCT > Blog > Students as
Authors > Password Protected Content
- 3) Computer Mediated Communication and PowerPoint Alternatives: Overview of Social Media Tools, Applications, & Resources > Week
2 Example Visualizations
- 4) Software
- 5) Hardware and Fieldwork
- 6) The Problem of Provided Content vs Student Fieldwork
- 7) Going Old School: Converting Analog Content to Digital
- 8) Peer Review of Presentations: Hard Copy Forms vs Online Surveys
- 9) Getting Data Back to the Student: The Need for Expendable and External Media
- 10) Lessons learned after the first semester
- The Need for Transcription Software (and Homegrown Pedals)
- More HowTo’s in Qualitative Research:
- Equipment Check-Out: Moving from Barcodes to the Blog
- Replacing Equipment: Remembering Everything in the Kit
- Software limitations: iMovie 09 – Do You Upgrade Mid-Semester?
- Working Collaboratively: The Pros and Cons of the Individual Project vs the Group Project
- Library Research Needs
- The Need for Transcription Software (and Homegrown Pedals)
- 11) Best practices in ethically incorporating new media and various research uses of visuals in research methods as a skill that
complements but does not replace the fieldwork/research- Creative Commons
- Internet Archive
- Center for Social Media
- Recut, Reframe, Reuse in the “Snatch & Grab” Culture
- 12) Where we are headed
Q&A / Show and Tell:
