Who's Doing What

On March 23, Janet Simons of Hamilton College, David Baird of Colgate University and Chris Watts of St. Lawrence University will host a NERCOMP event on media scholarship, student outcomes, multidisciplinary learning processes, and coordinated academic support in courses with multimodal communication assignments.

Reed College’s Trina Marmarelli, instructional technologist, and Martin Ringle, chief technology officer, have published a summary report of Reed’s Kindle study (.pdf).

Haverford College returns long-lost letter from French philosopher Rene Descartes to Institut de France. Reflecting on “our ever-shrinking world, when strangers become friends and then partners at the click of a mouse,” President Steve Emerson points to the importance of “show[ing], by example, what it means for scholars and citizens to collaborate for the common good.”

James Gehrt, digitization center coordinator at Mount Holyoke College, is sharing his knowledge at DPI, a blog dedicated to digitization and related topics.

The Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has elected NITLE’s executive director, Joey King, as one of its newest members, along with Joachim Küpper, of Free University of Berlin. Their terms begin April 2010.

Jason Shore, creative director of web services at DePauw University, and Alex Billingsley, a junior at the University, collaborated to build an iPhone application to keep the university community connected.

Registration is now open for The 2010 Horizon Report Symposium, presented by NERCOMP in partnership with NITLE and the Boston Library Consortium. Bryan Alexander, NITLE Director of Research and Chair of the 2010 Horizon Report Advisory Board, will be the featured speaker at this April 8 event.

Rosalyn Metz, systems administrator for curricular support at Wheaton College and NITLE technology fellow in cloud computing, conducted a survey on cloud computing in higher education and has blogged the initial results.

Dan Lloyd, Brownell Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, is converting brain scan data into “visualization with accompanying sonification.” Find out more via Trinity College’s website or Dr. Lloyd’s YouTube channel.

Washington and Lee University’s Repertory Dance Company is using Wii and Twitter to engage audiences. See the story on Wired Campus or follow @wludanceconcert, which will Twittercast performances on January 29 & 30, 2010.

NITLE Director of Research Bryan Alexander’s Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality named a “Top Ten Article of 2009” for EDUCAUSE Review.

NITLE’s Nancy Millichap and Rebecca Davis are spreading the word about high-impact faculty development at this week’s annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Their presentation addresses how to sustain and promote innovation in an era of restricted budgets.

NERCOMP partners with the Boston Library Consortium and NITLE to present the “New Discovery Tools Symposium” on February 1st.

NITLE’s Advisory Board met recently in St. Louis to provide guidance on how NITLE can best fulfill its mission. Several key themes emerged.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V (January 5 - 7, 2010 at Lafayette College) will bring together programmers and instructional technologists to work on CLAMP’s Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition project. Google Wave will facilitate virtual attendance.

Programming is taking on personal meaning for Stetson University’s sophomore students, who are changing the way people interact online with campus.

Oberlin College’s faculty adopt a resolution to make journal articles written by members of the faculty and professional staff “openly accessible in the College’s institutional repository.”

The Outdoor Classroom II: Curricular Innovations in Mobile Computing for the Field Sciences, a workshop on field computing, will take place at Lawrence University on June 25 - 27, 2010. Apply online by February 15.

Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, and Dianna Xu of Bryn Mawr’s computer science faculty recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to advise Congress on the use of robotics in education.

Ken Dinitz, Swarthmore College, tells the story of his participation in a Center for Digital Storytelling workshop and of War News Radio. Read Abdulla Mizead’s case study of the project in Academic Commons.

Bryan Alexander, NITLE Director of Research, makes a guest appearance on Digital Campus. How and why do a critical mass of people adopt new technologies?

The University of Richmond’s commitment to climate neutrality and sustainability through asset management in information services is featured in the current issue of Educause Quarterly.

Colgate University gets press for its Living Writers program, which uses Webcast technology to engage alumni. (via the Chronicle of Higher Ed)

James Gehrt of Mt. Holyoke College, releases new book, Lessons from the Past:
Selections from the Educational Collections of Mount Holyoke College.

Associate professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College) launched blog-based version of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy 

Lewis and Clark College’s accessCeramics initiative fired up a twitter feed because, according to their blog post:

Jeannie Albrecht of Williams College has won an NSF award for “research on managing distributed applications on mobile computing platforms.”