Starting with storyboarding and filming, participants will work through a complete digital story production, finishing with post-production (importing video footage and photos into video editing software, editing the content, and assembling it into a simple digital story).
Date: Tuesday, June 2
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Location: Gore Hall 103
Three Perspectives on the Use of Story from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
This session will share experiences of using role-playing games to build understanding of global leadership issues as well as student capacity for team building, communication and negotiation. Session attendees will be asked to participate in a short and hopefully fun activity!
Prezi link for Hunger Games Meets Model U.N.
Jen Fuqua is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Organizational and Community Leadership Program, Jennifer Fuqua (ABD) is completing her doctoral studies in Public Policy and Administration at University of Delaware. Ms. Fuqua came to UD after many years as an administrator for a human services agency in Queens, New York, where she developed and supervised youth development programs in community and school settings.
Thomas Fernsler, Professional Development Center for Educators
Dr. Thomas Fernsler, aka “Professor 13”, has successfully taught mathematics to students at all levels K-grad school. His areas of professional interest include working with K-8 students and teachers, emphasizing a deeper understanding of mathematics content and demonstrating proven pedagogical techniques for the classroom. Tom enjoys sharing his extensive knowledge and experience gained from more than 30 years working with students and teachers from around the country. His teaching style and participation in numerous funded projects at UD and other universities place him in a unique position to help both teachers and students succeed in learning and understanding mathematics at all levels. Professor 13 is known world-wide and has been the subject of hundreds of media interviews (CNN, BBC, NBC, USA Today) focusing on his interest in triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13, where he makes connections between the historical significance of 13, politics, and famous and infamous people.
In this segment, participants will experience a story theatre exercise and consider the potential for including similar activities in their courses.
Allan Carlsen, Theatre
Allan Carlsen is Assistant Professor of Theatre for the University of Delaware where he serves as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies as well as the adviser for the department’s almost 300 Theatre minors. Allan personally developed two of UD’s largest and successful theatre lecture courses, one of which focuses on bringing the history of theatre alive by integrating its course work with performances by UD’s REP actors and the other which takes students behind the scenes from the inception of a production to its realization on stage.
Also, he is co-founder of UD’s innovative Healthcare Theatre program, where interdisciplinary avenues between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Health Sciences are explored. Here, Allan and his partner, Amy Cowperthwait, train undergraduates from throughout the university to become simulated patients, family members, and health care providers, whose performances improve the interpersonal communication skills and the clinical work of students and professionals in the health care industry.
Date: Tuesday, June 2
Time: 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall 218
Whether or not you’ll be joining tomorrow’s mobile safari, this event will help you get the most out of mobile photography apps. Topics will cover using the best cross platform mobile editing, add-on camera apps, as well as tips that will help you improve your image quality when using those apps. What to look for when exploring apps, photo accessories, and more.
Those registered for the mobile safari are highly encouraged to attend this session.
Don’t forget to charge your preferred device and bring it to this session!
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Mitchell Auditorium
Digital Storytelling to Scholarly Storytelling from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
Alongside strong writing and speaking skills, crafting media messages represents an essential literacy helping students share their stories with a global audience. As media projects continue to increase in a range of academic areas, digital storytelling provides a common set of strategies and skills on which to build. Dr. Kyle Dickson will describe how faculty at Abilene Christian University paired training in media production with digital storytelling in courses from composition and journalism to psychology and math.
Kyle Dickson, Abilene Christian University
Kyle Dickson directs the AT&T Learning Studio at Abilene Christian University, enabling students and faculty to craft media messages for a global audience. Since 2005, he has worked with the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning to support innovative faculty in podcasting, course blogging, and mobile learning. In 2011, he became director of the Learning Studio, part collaborative learning space, part media production sandbox. Since 1999, Kyle has sought to blur the edges of the classroom in residential, online, and study abroad courses. He developed inter-disciplinary courses for the ACU in Oxford and Summer Online programs as well as the national college curriculum for the This I Believe series on NPR. As associate professor of English, he regularly teaches undergraduate, graduate and honors courses in British literature, drama, satire, film, and media production.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 noon
Location: Gore Hall 104
Optimize Your Professional Online Presence from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
Learn best practices for building your digital brand as an academic professional. Participants will leave this session with recommendations for a universally-identifiable Internet name, a bio sketch tailored for different social media channels, and the start on a checklist of the most important steps to take to establish your optimal professional online presence (that is to say, what people see when they google you).
Holly Norton, Communications and Public Affairs
Holly Norton is a communications professional who specializes in digital strategy and social media production, analysis and marketing. Throughout her 15-year career at Gannett, Holly worked in the sports department as a copy editor and writer, launched Spark, a successful entertainment weekly focused on Delaware young professionals, and led the newsroom in social media development and strategy as the community engagement editor. As The News Journal and Delawareonline brand transitioned into a paid content business model, Holly designed and implemented a social media strategy for reporters and editors, a crisis and brand reputation management protocol and acted as a liaison between the marketplace and The News Journal staff. Holly has been recognized by Gannett corporate as a leading manager, recipient of Chairman’s Award, Individual Excellence Award, as well as received multiple Delaware Press Association awards for column writing and editing. She is also a University of Delaware alumnus, class of 1998.
Mathieu Plourde, Academic Technology Services
Mathieu Plourde is an educational technologist with IT Academic Technology Services at the University of Delaware. He holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design (2000) and an M.B.A. (2006), both acquired at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. He is now pursuing an Ed.D. in educational leadership at the University of Delaware, and taught a class on social networking for educators in 2012. His multidisciplinary background (graphic, web and instructional design, IT, marketing, e-commerce, management, communication, education, etc.) gives him a unique view of teaching, learning, and user support. He is also a social media strategist and an open education advocate.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall 218
Participants in the digital storytelling track will share initial story ideas in a workshop format that will help them develop strategies for scripting, visualizing, and hearing their digital story.
Kyle Dickson, Abilene Christian University
Kyle Dickson directs the AT&T Learning Studio at Abilene Christian University, enabling students and faculty to craft media messages for a global audience. Since 2005, he has worked with the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning to support innovative faculty in podcasting, course blogging, and mobile learning. In 2011, he became director of the Learning Studio, part collaborative learning space, part media production sandbox. Since 1999, Kyle has sought to blur the edges of the classroom in residential, online, and study abroad courses. He developed inter-disciplinary courses for the ACU in Oxford and Summer Online programs as well as the national college curriculum for the This I Believe series on NPR. As associate professor of English, he regularly teaches undergraduate, graduate and honors courses in British literature, drama, satire, film, and media production.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 10: 30 a.m. – 4 p.m. (special all-day session)
Location: Faculty Commons, Pearson Hall 116
The mobile photo safari is designed to encourage the use of your own photography for course-related materials and activities by exploiting the ubiquity and convenience of mobile devices. For you and your students, mobile photography presents new opportunities for community connections. The all day session will include a photography lesson, photo assignment, and photo shoot on campus and Main Street.
After lunch, you’ll work with your mobile device to post-process images, tag and catalog, and post online. The event is intended for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone owners. Registrants will be advised on specific photo apps to load prior to the event. These photos can be incorporated into a digital storytelling project (see related sessions in this theme).
Safari guides:
Jon Cox, Art
Debbie Jeffers, Academic Technology Services
Jon Cox, Art
Jon Cox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Project Liaison in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Lab at the University of Delaware. He has served as a Board Member of the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania since 2006. Cox’s latest published work was a six-year documentary book project with hunter-gatherers in Tanzania titled Hadzabe, By the Light of a Million Fires. Cox has directed over twenty photographic study abroad programs across the globe including destinations to Antarctica, South East Asia, Tanzania, Australia, Tasmania and several countries in South America. He was a pioneer in the field of digital photography, served as the adventure photographer/writer for Digital Camera Magazine and authored two Amphoto digital photography books. Cox is the 2014 co-recipient of a National Geographic – Genographic Legacy Fund Grant to support a collaborative cultural mapping initiative with the Ese’Eja hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon basin of Peru.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (during lunch)
Location: Gore Hall Rotunda
Facilitators: Student Multimedia Design Center staff
A safe zone for picking up, using, and asking questions about the video equipment you can check out in the Student Multimedia Design Center. Want to buy your own equipment, but don’t know what questions to ask? Want to take your videos to the next level with additional mics, lighting, tripod dollies, or other equipment? Stop in over lunch today.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall 218
Building on the story circles morning session, this workshop will be a crash course in all the steps successful filmmakers take before they start shooting video. Participants will come away understanding the importance of pre-production and prepared to complete: treatments, moodboards, location scouting, scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and dry runs. Both pen and paper and digital approaches will be introduced.
Nico Carver, Student Multimedia Design Center
Nico Carver is the coordinator of Student Multimedia Design Center services at the University of Delaware Library. His background is in experimental filmmaking, which he studied at Hampshire College. He holds an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall 104
Five Minutes of Fame from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
Five Minutes of Fame is a fast-paced session where you can pick up ten exciting ideas, technologies, projects, or resources, all in five minute doses. Presentations can come from any faculty or staff participant at this year’s institute. Want to be considered for this year’s list of 10? E-mail your idea to faculty-commons@udel.edu
Be untethered from the podium, as you control (and annotate!) your presentation from anywhere in the room.
Build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video.
Students cross divides to apply technology to social, political problems.
Easily turn a Google spreadsheet into a trivia game show.
StrengthsQuest – helping students reach their full potential: StrengthsQuest is an inventory which helps students understand their natural talents and ways of being. When students better understand their talents and apply these ways of being to everyday actions, they can turn the talent into a strength. This tool has been used to help students work in teams and approach challenges. Additionally, the online tools connected to this inventory help students understand how to best approach their academics, relationships, and their career search.
Best Practices in IT Security for Faculty
A new tool for working with online assessment
Leveraging student Consumption of Media: Learn about media consumption trends, and how Whiteboard video tools can leverage student retention.
(Hat tip to the New Media Consortium for pioneering this session format.)
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Gore Hall 218
Shooting a successful video requires planning and an understanding of a few basics of film production. This workshop will introduce participants to techniques that will improve the way that footage looks and sounds. The workshop will demonstrate equipment that is available to be borrowed from the Student Multimedia Design Center in order to successfully: frame it (using cameras and tripods), mic it (using booms or lavaliers), and light it (using 3-point lighting techniques and more).
Student Multimedia Design Center orientation will follow this session (open to all institute participants).
Hannah Lee, Student Multimedia Design Center
Hannah K. Lee is a senior assistant librarian and program coordinator for the multimedia literacy program in the Student Multimedia Design Center at the University of Delaware Library. Her responsibilities include collaborating with faculty across departments and assisting students in creating multimedia content. She has a B.A. in English with a minor in Education, an M.A. in English with a specialization in Writing Studies, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Stevenson, Student Multimedia Design Center
John A, Stevenson is an associate librarian in the Student Multimedia Design Center. He has served as selector for spatial data and U.S. government information at the University of Delaware Library since 1990 and in 2012 became selector for the history of science. His expertise includes: Adobe Premier Pro and other multimedia applications; photography; GIS and data acquisition; and the Library’s microform, map, and CD-ROM collections. As an instructor for the multimedia literacy program, he helps faculty to teach their classes the tools they need to create multimedia projects, which include any combination of video, audio, text, and graphics. He has a B.A. in History from Binghamton University and an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from the University at Buffalo.
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Morris Library
Facilitators: John Stevenson, Student Multimedia Design Center
Student Multimedia Design Center orientations — attendance at the earlier digital storytelling sessions is not required.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Mitchell Auditorium
Video Street Ethnography from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
Yasser A. Payne is an associate professor in the Department of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. His street ethnographic research program is centered on exploring notions of resiliency with the streets of Black America using an unconventional methodological framework entitled Participatory Action Research–the process of involving members of the population of interest on the actual research team.
His approach to diversity is centered on exploring or examining the variation of psychological identity as it relates to Black and Brown populations involved with the criminal justice system. In most instances, such populations are framed in a monolithic way and Dr. Payne through his research has found great emotional, psychological and developmental variation. Also, he aims to break down or through stereotypical barriers and images of Black and Brown people in the criminal justice system, so that transition back in the community and opportunities for upward mobility are successful. Dr. Payne’s work is centered on humanizing those in the criminal justice system and getting undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and/or everday residents to work more closely with those in the criminal justice system.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. (to accommodate travel to and from Morris Library)
Location: Room B, Student Multimedia Design Center, Morris Library
The final step in the digital storytelling process is post-production, where you edit your raw footage to create your finished video. Apple’s iMovie is a great consumer level video editing program that is flexible and easy to use. This hands-on workshop will explore iMovie’s entire editing process from beginning to end.
Hannah Lee, Student Multimedia Design Center
Hannah K. Lee is a senior assistant librarian and program coordinator for the multimedia literacy program in the Student Multimedia Design Center at the University of Delaware Library. Her responsibilities include collaborating with faculty across departments and assisting students in creating multimedia content. She has a B.A. in English with a minor in Education, an M.A. in English with a specialization in Writing Studies, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nico Carver, Student Multimedia Design Center
Nico Carver is the coordinator of Student Multimedia Design Center services at the University of Delaware Library. His background is in experimental filmmaking, which he studied at Hampshire College. He holds an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Room B, Student Multimedia Design Center, Morris Library
This workshop is for participants who already know the basics of iMovie, and who would like to explore some of its more advanced features. Topics will include advanced audio, video, and green screen concepts.
Student Multimedia Design Center orientation will follow this session and is open to all institute participants.
Hannah Lee, Student Multimedia Design Center
Hannah K. Lee is a senior assistant librarian and program coordinator for the multimedia literacy program in the Student Multimedia Design Center at the University of Delaware Library. Her responsibilities include collaborating with faculty across departments and assisting students in creating multimedia content. She has a B.A. in English with a minor in Education, an M.A. in English with a specialization in Writing Studies, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nico Carver, Student Multimedia Design Center
Nico Carver is the coordinator of Student Multimedia Design Center services at the University of Delaware Library. His background is in experimental filmmaking, which he studied at Hampshire College. He holds an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Student Multimedia Design Center, Morris Library
Facilitators: John Stevenson, Student Multimedia Design Center
Student Multimedia Design Center orientations — attendance at the earlier digital storytelling sessions is not required.
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Room B, Student Multimedia Design Center, Morris Library
Introduction to Artstor hosted collections and their creation and maintenance using the Shared Shelf platform. Overview on the structuring and decisions involving item level metadata, the target audiences, rights, Creative Commons licensing and associated topics. Concluding with a walk through of the mechanics of entering and maintaining information in Shared Shelf.
Mary Durio is in charge of the University of Delaware Library’s Center for Digital Collections. She has extensive experience working with digital collections creation and content conversion. She is in charge of developing digital collections that are housed in the University library from scanning of collections to developing metadata crosswalks to creating the collections online. She has been involved with and working with Artstor Shared Shelf since 2011.
Mark Grabowski is in charge of the University of Delaware Library Data and Server Management department. Mark has been working with digital collections for the past fourteen years. He is responsible for the day to day running of the University Institutional repository and is the University technical contact to Artstor. Mark has been involved with Artstor Shared Shelf since 2011 when the product was still in a beta release.