Google Earth has many uses within the classroom, but can be especially powerful when coupled with institutional collections and resources. Mia Genoni, Mellon Special Collection Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer in the History of Art, presented about using Google Earth with ARTstor, a digital library of images licensed by the Yale Library for the course Monuments of Naples: City and Self. Google Earth and ARTstor together enhance teaching across a range of subjects including architecture, urbanism, painting, and even sculpture. Mia typically uses Google Earth and ARTStor to orient students to the city of Naples and the relative positioning of buildings to one another. She takes screen shots of various locations in Naples as depicted in Google Earth and imports them into ARTStor’s offline viewer presentation tool. The connections among the architectural photos and the maps of the city allow the students to formulate a detailed mental map of the city. She was joined by one of her students, Rachel Cooke, who discussed the impact of Google Earth and ARTstor on her learning in the course.
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As digital media becomes easier to create and disseminate, faculty have come to embrace the technology in course learning initiatives and objectives. One such example is the video project Professor Andre Taylor from Chemical Engineering assigned his CENG 210 students in the fall of 2009. The students of CENG 210 were charged with the task of creating short promotional videos for various target audiences of prospective engineering students at Yale. While the project served to deepen the students’ understanding of Chemical Engineering’s connections to other disciplines and fields, it also modeled the type of teamwork students would encounter as a regular component of a career in Chemical Engineering. Members from the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) and the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) worked closely with Professor Taylor and his students in offering course design, student consultations, video camera and video editing workshops, and grading rubrics.
Professor Andre Taylor teaches the first class engineering students take at Yale (CENG/ENVE 210a). The course answers questions such as: what do chemical engineers do and what do they do at Yale, since Yale is primarily a liberal arts college? How can engineers help the world? The course focuses on bringing real events into the class. Professor Taylor based the student created video assignment on both course learning outcomes and accreditation guidelines for engineering. Professor Taylor was looking for a way to pull out some of the practical requirements of these objectives and guidelines while also putting together a fun assignment.
Project: In small groups, create a 3-minute promotional video targeted for one of these groups:
Prospective Yale students and freshman
International outreach (Yale’s Global Educational Mission)
High school students from disadvantaged areas
The Instructional Technology Group (ITG) helped Professor Taylor integrate the assignment into the course curriculum and developing a grading rubric. The grading rubric {link} was available on the ClassesV2 site and presented to students right from the start to shape expectations. Carolyn Caizzi, Technology Specialist from the Visual Resource Collection, held several video workshops for the students on shots, angles, flow, and other video production considerations. ITG also conducted an iMovie workshop to help students with editing their footage. An assessment was conducted and the students cited the final product as the most rewarding aspect. They also acknowledged that they understood the teamwork and collaboration aspect.
We will discuss a small but growing number of web sites created and edited collaboratively by librarians, curators, faculty and students featuring collections and items available in Yale repositories relevant to specific areas of disciplinary research. These sites extend the possibilities of traditional subject guides by allowing for tagging and providing an environment where scholarship and teaching materials based on the featured collections can also be highlighted. We will also demonstrate how these portals are set up in Drupal, an open source content management system now being offered at the university.
Projects to be discussed include:
Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
Yale American Indian Studies Portal
Unbecoming British: Material Culture in Early America
Presenters:
Christine DeLucia, PhD Candidate in American Studies
Miriam Posner, PhD Candidate in Film and American Studies
Ken Panko, Manager, Instructional Technology Group
As digital media becomes easier to create and disseminate, faculty have come to embrace the technology in course learning initiatives and objectives. One such example is the video project Professor Andre Taylor from Chemical Engineering assigned his CENG 210 students in the fall of 2009. The students of CENG 210 were charged with the task of creating short promotional videos for various target audiences of prospective engineering students at Yale. While the project served to deepen the students’ understanding of Chemical Engineering’s connections to other disciplines and fields, it also modeled the type of teamwork students would encounter as a regular component of a career in Chemical Engineering. Members from the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) and the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) worked closely with Professor Taylor and his students in offering course design, student consultations, video camera and video editing workshops, and grading rubrics.
Please join Professor Andre Taylor, Matthew Regan and Yianni Yessios from ITG, and Carolyn Caizzi from the VRC in a discussion of the project from conception to crux to conclusion.
when coupled with institutional collections and resources. Mia Genoni, Mellon Special Collection Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer in the History of Art, presented about using Google Earth with ARTstor, a digital library of images licensed by the Yale Library for the course Monuments of Naples: City and Self. Google Earth and ARTstor together enhance teaching across a range of subjects including architecture, urbanism, painting, and even sculpture. Mia typically uses Google Earth and ARTStor to orient students to the city of Naples and the relative positioning of buildings to one another. She takes screen shots of various locations in Naples as depicted in Google Earth and imports them into ARTStor’s offline viewer presentation tool. The connections among the architectural photos and the maps of the city allow the students to formulate a detailed mental map of the city. She was joined by one of her students, Rachel Cooke, who discussed the impact of Google Earth and ARTstor on her learning in the course.