Ali Momeni
Assistant Professor
ali@umn.edu
[photo?]

Members of the Minneapolis Art on Wheels

Andrea Steudel
Title?
steu0033@umn.edu

Minneapolis Art on Wheels (MAW) is a vehicle for activating public spaces with large-scale projections of sound and video. MAW develops software, hardware, and methodologies for participatory urban projection, and helps artists and community organizations utilize these instruments to creatively claim and transform public spaces. MAW disseminates these instruments and works with artists interested in technology to promote mobile public projection. MAW aims to connect patrons with artists and artists with communities through commissioning programs. Commissioning programs are tailored to the needs of a specific event and include performances on-demand, training of artist with a mission, and collaborative development of public performance events sought by community organizations.

collaborativearts.umn.edu
art.umn.edu

Hisham Khalek
Lead Instructor of Arabic Language and Culture
hkhalek@umn.edu
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Lindsey Lahr
Instructional Technology Fellow
CLA-OIT; CLA Language Center
lahr0039@umn.edu
claitf11@umn.edu
[no photo provided]

The ultimate goal of this project was to create audio content for students enrolled in Beginning Arabic courses that corresponded with the curriculum and text. Audio exercises are part of the curriculum for the courses; therefore, making them accessible for student review was the priority. Having the course content available through iTunes U was decidedly the best channel to disseminate the content and have it remain accessible for students enrolled in the Beginning Arabic courses. The process of making this possible included recording the audio at the CLA Language Center, editing the audio using Adobe Soundbooth and Peak Pro software, hosting the content through CLA's MediaMagnet, and supplying the information through an RSS feed into iTunes U. The content remains available for enrolled students for review throughout the semester.

all.umn.edu

Dan Soneson
Director
soneson@umn.edu
[photo?]

Rick Treece
Educational Specialist
treece@umn.edu
[photo?]

Diane Rackowski
Technical Coordinator
dianer@umn.edu
[photo?]

Bethany Schowengerdt
Tandem Assistant
schow024@umn.edu
[photo?]

Ellen Wormwood
Tandem Coordinator
wormw001@umn.edu
[photo?]

TandemPlus is a CLA Language Center program that provides CLA students the opportunity to practice language skills and explore other cultures through partnerships with native speakers of other languages.

Face-to-face language partnerships are matched thanks to a web application and database designed by Language Center staff. The database matches about 500 students per year on the basis of their stated preferences in language, group size, class schedule, gender, etc.

Class-to-class virtual exchanges have allowed hundreds of CLA students to be matched with partner students in Chile, China, France, Mexico, and Spain. Participants use Tokbox, Wimba, Skype, and email to exchange text and video communications. The video exchanges are mainly conducted using Tokbox, a free web-based service.

languagecenter.cla.umn.edu

Beth Kautz
Director of Language Instruction and Liaison to the CLA Language Center
kautz001@umn.edu
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Rebecca Raham
Sr. Lecturer
raha0004@umn.edu
[photo?]

Diane Rackowski
Technical Coordinator, CLA Language Center
dianer@umn.edu

Twenty students in German 3014, "German Media," were issued an iPod touch to use throughout the semester. Students used a custom made app on the iPod touches to access German news and events via podcasts, online newspapers, radio, and YouTube videos. After analyzing different genres and cultural themes in the media, they created their own video podcast, which they shared with their classmates via iTunes U. The iPod touches were funded through a small grant from CLA Student Technology Fees.

gsd.umn.edu

Jonathan Fulk
Coordinator of First-Year French
Teaching Specialist
jfulk@umn.edu
[photo?]

Patricia Mougel
Director of Lower-Division French
mouge001@umn.edu

Rick Treece
Educational Specialist
treece@umn.edu

In an effort to deepen the content and cultural study of first-year French courses in a way that was both affordable for students and sustainable for the program, we created online learning modules composed of web sites, video, text, images, and interactive activities. These modules are used both in and out of the classroom as a means to easily deliver interesting content to students. This project has resulted in an increased awareness and interest in French culture by our students as well as content-enriched courses that are easily updated without requiring another costly textbook.

frit.umn.edu

Darin Mather
Senior Instructional Technology Fellow
Ph.D. Student, Sociology
mathe148@umn.edu
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Daniel Wackman
Director of Undergraduate Studies
wackm001@umn.edu

Maggie Cosgrove
Undergraduate Student Personnel Coordinator
cosg0022@umn.edu

The accrediting body for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication requires that independent professionals review student projects in each class. This new requirement presented two logistical challenges. First, the department needed an efficient system for gathering the student projects and securely distributing them to the appropriate reviewers. Second, reviewers needed clear evaluation guidelines on a form that would easily capture their responses and make them available for analysis. In this presentation we will demonstrate how Google Apps can be used to efficiently address all of these needs.

sjmc.umn.edu

Andrea Berlin
Professor
aberlin@umn.edu
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The CNES Archaeology Portal, originally funded through a Student Technology Fee grant, has been a robust tool for integrating principles of time and space into the study of archaeology for years. Over the past two years, with additional STF funding, Andrea Berlin and her graduate students have used the TimeDig interactive timeline platform to add more sites and objects to the space, creating a rich arena for active, discovery-based learning.

cnes.cla.umn.edu

Chris Uggen
Professor and Chair/Co-editor
uggen001@umn.edu

Doug Hartmann
Professor/Co-editor
hartm021@umn.edu

Letta Page
Managing Editor
amy@contexts.org

Sarah Lageson
Graduate Student
lage0050@umn.edu

When the Department of Sociology brought Contexts magazine to Minnesota, they wanted to make good on the award-winning print publication's public outreach mission. This project will showcase the work of CLA faculty and students in creating a popular website, contexts.org, a network of blogs such as the Contexts Crawler for students and teachers, and our lively podcasts featuring interviews with sociologists and public intellectuals.

contexts.org
www.soc.umn.edu

Thomas Lindsay
Manager
lindsayt@umn.edu

Andrew Sell
Survey Designer
sell0136@umn.edu

CLA Survey Services serves faculty, graduate students, and staff researchers. Our team of professionals has experience working with academic research and takes a consultative approach to the design, programming, deployment, collection, and/or analysis of researchers' surveys. Now in our fifth year, we have worked with researchers to run over 200 projects varying from single-page preference polls to large-scale time-series projects with dozens of separate instruments. Our services are available to all researchers in CLA and CSOM. We also occasionally engage in projects for other colleges as resources allow.

survey.cla.umn.edu
claoit.umn.edu

Debra Hartley
Assistant Director
hartley@umn.edu
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Kirsten Jamsen
Director
kjamsen@umn.edu
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Katie Levin
Assistant Director
kslevin@umn.edu
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Mitch Ogden
Assistant Director
ogden@umn.edu
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Huy Hoang
CLA-OIT Information Technician Professional
hoang027@umn.edu

Daniel Balm
Undergraduate Technology Specialist
balmx005@umn.edu

Linda Clemens
Graduate Writing Consultant
cleme017@umn.edu

Learn about mySWS, an evolving portal interface that helps students access both face-to-face and online Student Writing Support consultations in the Center for Writing. At our exhibit, audience members will be able to try out mySWS to schedule consultations, submit writing for consultant response, participate in a synchronous chat, and review/reflect upon previous consultations--with guidance from members of the center's collaborative technology development team. We hope that seeing mySWS in action and considering how we developed this interface as a technological expression of our philosophy of student ownership and engagement with their own learning will provoke new ideas and discussion about academic technologies.

writing.umn.edu

Brenda Kayzar
Assistant Professor
kayzar@umn.edu
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Steve Manson
Associate Professor
manson@umn.edu
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Drs. Kayzar and Manson received a Course Transformation Program grant to build a suite of online, interactive modules for students in the URBS 1001/3001W course as a way to introduce them to the complexities of the cities and metropolitan areas around them. Through a series of video podcasts with urban professionals, online quizzes, and online interactive map projects focused on Twin Cities locations, students gain a better understanding of key urban studies concepts related to urban morphology, connectivity and transit systems, housing provision, and neighborhood and community development.

www.geog.umn.edu

Bernadette Longo
Associate Professor
blongo@umn.edu
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Douglas Ernie
Associate Professor
Computer and Electrical Engineering
ernie@umn.edu

Gerald Sobelman
Associate Professor
Computer and Electrical Engineering
sobelman@umn.edu

This educational documentary project tells the story of women entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). To put a human face on historic power shifts, the fight for natural resources, and globalization, our story will feature two to four entrepreneurs and highlight the cultural, political, and socio-economic issues facing the Katanga Province in DRC. In recounting the complex logistical issues of bringing food produced in rural areas to market in urban Lubumbashi, we hope to help audiences understand who the players are in this complex region and how the U.S. is connected to this region through mobile phones. We hope to create a call-to-action, which will include classroom projects, political awareness, and research projects. This means looking at interdisciplinary questions related to long-term consequences of our cultural, societal, and personal actions, as well as framing issues related to definitions of abundance and scarcity.

writingstudies.umn.edu

Sisokaduta Joe Bendickson
Dakota Language Teaching Specialist
bendi011@umn.edu

Beth Brown
Program Associate for Dakota Language
brow0857@umn.edu

With fewer than 10 fluent first speakers left in Minnesota, Dakota is an endangered language and we are at a crucial point in saving it. The primary focus of the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota is to actively work toward the revitalization of the Dakota language by supporting students in advanced language and teacher education opportunities. In order to make our program more accessible to students in key Dakota communities in rural Minnesota as well as in the metro area, the Department of American Indian Studies implemented a distance component to allow students from outside of the Twin Cities to take the Dakota class via the Internet using UMConnect.

amin.umn.edu

Michael Olson
President
olso4102@umn.edu

Alex Mena
Vice President
menax004@umn.edu

Alyson Jubert
Secretary
Juber014@umn.edu

Mike Smylie
Marketing
smyli002@umn.edu

Shonit Jain
Web Designer
Jainx048@umn.edu

Gary Ludwitzke
Advisor
ludwi001@umn.edu

The University Film Club was founded in March 2009, with the mission of bringing the spirit of film back to the University of Minnesota campus. Dedicated to both film appreciation and production, the University Film Club is the place to be for cinephiles and aspiring filmmakers alike. The Film Club plays host to film screenings, guest speakers, and lively discussions. We also organize student film productions for fun and competition, and provide a place for students interested in the filmmaking process to network with one another. If you like film, this is the place for you! We accept everyone, whether you're an SCMC major or just someone who enjoys a great movie now and then. We meet on Fridays at 6:00 p.m. in 105 Blegen Hall.

universityfilmclub.com

Gary Ludwitzke
Coordinator
ludwi001@umn.edu
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Laura Cervin
Studio Manager
cervi001@umn.edu
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CLA Video Services provides a wide range of services and support related to video technology. Based out of Rarig Center, CLA Video Services operates two commercial-grade digital production studios that are used by courses from a range of CLA departments. One of the studios is shared with OIT Video Solutions, with whom CLA Video Services staff and student workers collaborated on client productions. In conjunction with the TV studios, CLA Video Services offers a large inventory of equipment that is loaned to students for off-site production. This includes a range of high definition digital camcorders, lighting kits, microphones, and monitors. Students can also take advantage of our editing suite, which offers six powerful non-linear editing stations with the latest hardware and software. Stop by to view videos produced by CLA students, and to find out how you can take advantage of these resources.

studios.cla.umn.edu

Steven F. Ostrow
Professor and Chair
ostro133@umn.edu
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Venugopal Maddipati
Instructional Technology Fellow
maddi004@umn.edu
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Rather than send the faculty committee to the annual conference for preliminary interviews with a large pool of semi-finalists for an open faculty position, the Department of Art History used Skype, a free, low-threshold videoconferencing solution, helping them to realize appreciable cost savings.

arthist.cla.umn.edu

Rebecca Moss
Coordinator
mossx014@umn.edu

Ginny Larson
Assistant Curator
larso037@umn.edu

Denne Wesolowski
Assistant Curator
weso0001@umn.edu

The Digital Content Library is an online collection of audio, video, and images from collections all across the University of Minnesota. With our partners in the College of Design, we have over 210,000 objects for faculty and students to use for teaching and research. If the material you need is not in the library, please bring us the source materials and we will digitize, catalog, and make them available for you to use. Order forms and instructions are located on our web page.

We are currently adding the Weisman Art Museum collection and are partnering with the University Libraries to add special materials from their collections. There are 45 departments and units represented, and the depth and breadth of what we have to offer is truly amazing. Our Media Drawers allow you to collect and share content with others, so don't hesitate to take advantage of this wonderful resource.

dcl.umn.edu

Su Chen
Head of the East Asian Library
University of Minnesota Libraries
suchen@umn.edu
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Ryan Bean
Reference and Outreach Archivist, Kautz Family YMCA Archives
beanx029@umn.edu

Hangtae Cho
Head of Korean Program, ALL
choxx023@umn.edu

Nobu Kadoyama
Undergraduate Student Assistant
kadoy001@umn.edu

Tim Johnson
Curator of Special Collections & Rare Books
john976@umn.edu

Hiromi Mizuno
Associate Professor, History
mizuno@umn.edu

Rebecca Moss
Coordinator, CLA Visual Resources Center
mossx014@umn.edu

Robert Poor
Professor, Art History
poorx001@umn.edu

Jason Roy
Head of Digital Collections Unit
jasonroy@umn.edu

The project showcases our two-fold purposes: A) Supporting teaching: Translating, subtitling, and streaming Chinese and Japanese classical films for teaching purposes; and B) Accessing resources for teaching and research: Taking advantage of the rich resources that libraries have been collecting for centuries, and using new technology to aggregate the visual resources scattered in various libraries and collections and present them in an identified theme.

eastasian.lib.umn.edu

Kay Reyerson
Professor
reyer001@umn.edu
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Kevin Mummey
Doctoral Candidate
mumme013@umn.edu
[photo?]

Nicholas Bray
Undergraduate, French Studies major
French and Italian
brayx059@umn.edu
[photo?]

Kurtis Scaletta
Senior Instructional Consultant, OIT
kurtis@umn.edu
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HIST 3611 received a Course Transformation Program grant to redesign the curriculum to include more active learning and to increase student engagement during course lectures and films. Our mission was to employ technologies to enhance students' interaction with the instructor and among themselves in a large lecture format (70+), taught without discussion sections. In the redesigned course, students "build" a medieval city with an interactive map; use Twitter to respond to a series of prompts during films shown in class; answer questions during class discussions using clickers; and give video-taped presentations in class on the Pirenne thesis, medieval town councils, medieval guildhalls, medieval marketplaces, and medieval urban ceremonies. We also supported the class with a Moodle website and enhanced lectures using PowerPoint presentations, rich in images and maps.

hist.umn.edu

Paul Pecilunas
Media Producer
pecil001@umn.edu

Susan Tade
Video Production Manager
stade@umn.edu

The Office of Information Technology (OIT), in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts, University Relations, and the Academic Health Center, is producing "Driven to Discover: The Research Series."

The Driven to Discover series looks inside the lives and work of the University of Minnesota's most daring researchers and sees that they are in fact incredible people who make unbelievable discoveries that improve our lives, our planet, and our understanding.

This collaborative effort leverages the production skills of OIT's video production staff, CLA Video Services, and other media producers on campus to build a high-quality, comprehensive, all-University series. In addition, students are given the opportunity to work on a professional series enhancing their media skills.

The series can be viewed online at http://www.oit.umn.edu/research-series. New segments are released every Tuesday.

oit.umn.edu

Mark Forsyth
M Tech, U of M Bookstore
forsy062@umn.edu

Come and see what is new from Apple. Representatives from Apple and the Bookstore will be here to answer questions. Don't forget to register to win an iPod Nano!

bookstores.umn.edu

Shane Nackerud
Web Services Coordinator
snackeru@umn.edu
[photo?]

Kate Peterson
Information Literacy Librarian
katep@umn.edu

Jerilyn Veldof
Director, Coordinated Educational Services
jveldof@umn.edu

The University Libraries will showcase two of our more popular web applications: The Assignment Calculator, http://tools.lib.umn.edu/ac, and UThink Blogs, http://blog.lib.umn.edu. The Assignment Calculator breaks down research and writing projects into manageable steps based on the due date. You can adapt your own assignment from a bank of existing assignments (e.g., research paper, speech, or video) or create your own from scratch. UThink Blogs has been in existence since 2004 and is the largest academic blogging site in North America. Many classes and departments use UThink for a variety of purposes. Come and learn more about both of these popular tools!

lib.umn.edu

Kevin Smith
Tech Support Coordinator
kjsmith@umn.edu

Joel Turbes
East Bank Service Manager
jrturbes@umn.edu

Reed Munson
Service Desk Manager
rmunson@umn.edu

Taylor Olson
Service Desk Manager
olsont@umn.edu

Providing high quality and personalized technical support is a top priority for CLA-OIT. Our commitment to providing every department and faculty member with a dependable, well qualified, and experienced regional technician is fundamental and unmodified. Under the new technical support plan, we ask that you contact the CLA Service Desk, 4-HELP. We offer a comprehensive service for CLA faculty, staff, and graduate students. Calling CLA's Service Desk should be your first step for addressing your technical issues. Our intention is to get you the service you need, in a manner that works for you, and within an accepEXHIBIT amount of time. We are here to serve you.

claoit.umn.edu

Bernard M. Levinson
Professor and Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible
levinson@umn.edu

Brynja Gudjonsson
Instructional Technology Fellow
gudjo002@umn.edu

Our presentation is on the work that we have been doing to convert the CNES/RelS/JWST 1201/3201 course to a supporting website in Moodle. This is the pilot project for the ITF course conversion project. To date we have created a Moodle site with a complex online grade book and trained all users to use the Moodle site. Over the term we have reorganized the site and scanned both readings and course handouts to digital format. One of the larger aspects of this project has been converting scanned typewritten handouts to ediEXHIBIT files that can be regularly updated as needed. We have also been working with testing services to integrate test results into the Moodle grade book. Dr. Levinson also received a small technology grant to use Turn-it-in.com, which has been successful at identifying incidents of plagiarism and would be an excellent resource integrated into Moodle. The goal of the Course Conversion Project is to integrate technology more seamlessly into courses at the University. Each project is done in close conversation with the professor and any graduate assistants.

cnes.umn.edu

Michael J. Silverman
Assistant Professor
Music Therapy
silvermj@umn.edu
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There is a sizable amount of research supporting the use of video to teach music therapy students (Ademek, 1994; Greenfield, 1978; Hanser & Furman, 1980). The Music Therapy department in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota has incorporated digital technology to train music therapy students using results of previous research.
Each week, music therapy students role-play clinical scenarios based from Standley and Jones (2008). These presentations are recorded using a Flip Video Camera, then uploaded to Media Mill. These videos are then transferred to UThink. Students then watch all videos and make four positive and one negative comment on each video, giving them clinical supervision experience. These comments are also emailed to the instructor for grading purposes. At the conclusion of each semester, students write a two-page reaction paper to the comments their peers made on their presentations. This has developed into a time-efficient and effective learning opportunity for students.

music.umn.edu

Kimerly Wilcox
Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant
wilco001@umn.edu
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Lauren Marsh
Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant
lauren@umn.edu
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Presentation of Office of Information Technology (OIT) services in the area of academic technologies; specifically, Emerging Technologies, Evaluation and Research Services, Faculty Development Programs and Consultation Services, Technology Training, and Usability Services.

oit.umn.edu

CLA Office of Information Technology

Mark McKay
Graduate Evaluation Consultant
mcka0074@umn.edu
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Danneka Miller
Evaluation Consultant, Psychology, GWSS
mill3996@umn.edu
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Samantha Wettenstein
Evaluation Consultant, History, Urban Studies
wett0052@umn.edu
[photo?]

Nick Bray
Evaluation Consultant, History
brayx059@umn.edu
[photo?]

Jude Higdon-Topaz
Managing Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning
jhigdon@umn.edu
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The 2009-10 Course Transformation Program (CPT) had a cohort of six high-enrollment courses in five CLA departments. In the first semester that each of the transformed courses were offered, the program touched over 1500 students. But was it worth it? Did the investment of time and money pay dividends, or at least begin to, in terms of increasing student learning and motivation in the transformed courses? Did the investment of time make the courses easier to manage? What was the experience of the instructors in the course? Using a student cohort of six undergraduates, and with a 25 percent graduate student manager, the CTP has offered a robust evaluation system to the course teams that has required very little input from instructors, and has provided valuable insights both into what is working in the transformed courses and what areas could use further attention.

claoit.umn.edu

Colin DeLong
Coordinator of Technology & Analysis
delo0041@umn.edu

Tina Falkner
Director
Academic Support Resources
rovic001@umn.edu

Eric Perrino
Programmer/Systems Administrator
perr0273@umn.edu

The Enrollment Tracking System (ETS) is an electronic tool providing near real-time information to academic advisers about their advisees and alerting them to those in need of assistance. The system includes a streamlined user interface for accessing detailed student records data, such as color-coded enrollment information, appointment history, major/minor program history, holds, and currently active alerts/warnings. Additionally, each morning the system automatically emails advisers about advisees with new alerts or warnings, who can then log contacts and set automated reminders for future follow-up. Administrators within the college can also view aggregate data and create reports to help identify trends. The system was built with extensibility in mind, easily handling the incorporation of new or altered data elements into its interfaces, filtering mechanisms, and access controls.

class.umn.edu

Simin Hickman
Director, Academic Distributed Computer Services
simin@umn.edu
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Presentation of Office of Information Technology facilities and services in support of academic technology on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus.

oit.umn.edu

Sonja Peterson
Information Technician Professional
sonja@umn.edu

Jan Estep
Associate Professor
jestep@umn.edu

Caroline Houdek
Lecturer
choudek@umn.edu

Lynn Lukkas
Associate Professor
lukkas@umn.edu

Cheryl Wilgren Clyne
Lecturer
clyne003@umn.edu

Diane Willow
Assistant Professor
willow@umn.edu

A sampling of student work to give an overview of the Photography area and the Experimental Media Arts area in the Department of Art.

art.umn.edu

Frances Matos-Schultz
Senior Lecturer
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
matos001@umn.edu

First-year second language learners produce a considerable amount of writing samples that need to be drafted, processed, and edited by both the instructor and the writer. Using Cuaderno, an online writing-processing tool developed by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, these writing tasks are managed online in collaboration with peers. Cuaderno 's draft, peer-edit, and re-release features facilitate the individualized management of writing assignments and development of language skills with minimal administrative intervention.

spanport.cla.umn.edu

Tracey Deutsch
Assistant Professor
tdeutsch@umn.edu
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Lisa Norling
Associate Professor
norli001@umn.edu
[photo?]

History of the American Empire, a high-enrollment introductory course with more than 200 students, received a Course Transformation Program grant to redesign the curriculum to address three issues: 1. To make the lectures more interactive; 2. To provide more advanced students with additional materials; and 3. To provide graduate TAs with a vehicle to share and learn from one another's lesson plans. The goals were achieved through the use of clickers, an instructor's course blog, and a wiki in Google Sites for the course TAs.

hist.umn.edu

Thomas Brothen
Professor
broth001@umn.edu
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Kate Briggs
Coordinator
khbriggs@umn.edu
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Daniel Goldman
Teaching Assistant
goldm076@umn.edu
[photo?]

Carla Bates
Information Technology Professional
bates014@umn.edu

We report on the techniques we used to create, deliver, and refine online examinations during fall and spring semesters this year for approximately 1100 students in Psychology 1001: Introduction to Psychology. The examinations were three mid-semester exams and a final. We created them in WebVista and first delivered each in the HHH computer lab in two-day blocks during fall semester 2009. Students signed up and came during those times or, if they missed them, made them up in sessions in the Elliott Hall computer lab. We delivered the exams securely using the WebVista IP address security feature and Respondus LockDown Browser. In addition, we had proctors at the exam site. We revised the exams based on data from fall and are repeating the process in spring semester.

psych.umn.edu

Jigna Desai
Associate Professor
desai003@umn.edu
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Remy Corso
Undergraduate Student
cors0031@umn.edu
[photo?]

Lauren Marsh
Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant
lauren@umn.edu
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Teaching GWSS 1002 Politics of Sex is delightful and challenging. The challenges are its large lecture format (60-90 students), the discussion of provocative and sensitive topics, and the wide range of student knowledge and experience. Using a CLA Course Transformation Program grant, we were able to devise unique uses for current accessible technologies to foster more active and applied learning in the classroom. The presentation discusses the deployment of Clickers, Blogs, and TimeDig within the class.

gwss.umn.edu

Megan Lewis
Assistant Professor
lewi0182@umn.edu
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Chris Batteen
Instructional Technology Fellow
batteenc@umn.edu
[photo?]

Anna Wakefield
Undergraduate Team Member
wake0064@umn.edu
[photo?]

Kimi Johnson
Graduate Student Team Member
joh04979@umn.edu
[photo?]

Lauren Marsh
Senior Instructional Multimedia Consultant
lauren@umn.edu
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We will share some of the many technologies we have tested and employed to best meet the goals of our large, gateway Introduction to Theatre class, including Moodle, NING, Clickers, Video Ant, and others.

theatre.umn.edu

Jamey Hansen
Director of InfoTech Services
hansenj@umn.edu

Scott Appelwick
Assistant Director of Financial Services, CLA Administration
appel015@umn.edu

The project began with the desire to automate the preparation, review and approval of CLA's standard HRMS worksheet. The result was a product we call Intersections, the benefits of which exceeded our expectations. Intersections eliminated the manual routing of the worksheet amongst academic units, financial service teams and payroll departments. Instead the worksheet is routed electronically. Additionally, the system was designed to mine any pre-existing data and utilize defined roles to staff who are experts in a particular juncture of the process. This eliminated the duplication of effort, confusion of responsibility and significantly streamlined the payroll process for CLA.

claoit.umn.edu

Jude Higdon-Topaz
Managing Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning
jhigdon@umn.edu
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Colin McFadden
Senior Media Specialist
mcfa0086@umn.edu
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Once a week (or so) über-geeks Colin McFadden and Jude Higdon sit down to do what they do best: natter on endlessly about emergent trends in technology and what they do--or don't--mean for teaching and learning and higher education. You can tune into this slightly irreverent podcast at the EXHIBIT today, and pick up some propaganda that will help you subscribe to the podcast for the future. One of us! One of us!

claoit.umn.edu

Colin McFadden
Senior Media Specialist
mcfa0086@umn.edu
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CourseBlender is a set of applications designed to ease and enhance the process of lecture capture and online learning. With a few simple steps, faculty members can begin recording their lectures and posting them to iTunesU, Moodle, or other course websites. Stop by to find out how it all works, and to pick up a tutorial handout.

claoit.umn.edu

Jude Higdon-Topaz
Managing Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning
jhigdon@umn.edu
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Sean Miller
Undergraduate Instructional Technology Fellow
Communications Studies major
mill3239@umn.edu
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CLA has engaged actively in innovative social media engines to enhance teaching and learning and to provide platforms for user-generated content from instructors, administrators, and students. With an eye toward promoting student work and curricular media initiatives, CLA's iTunes U and YouTube channels provide another vehicle for the robust suite of audio and video projects being produced by our faculty and students.

claoit.umn.edu

Sean Miller
Undergraduate Instructional Technology Fellow
Communications Studies major
mill3239@umn.edu
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Kathleen Hansen
Professor
k-hans@umn.edu

Nora Paul
Program Director
npaul@umn.edu

Using a 3-D MUVE development environment called "Thinking Worlds," Sean Miller, an undergraduate with very little programming experience, has produced a game designed by Nora Paul and Kathy Hansen of SJMC in which students learn important lessons about story angle and working on deadline while trying to get the story of a train accident and hazardous waste spill. Stop by and play the game and see how you fare trying to get "Behind the Message."

sjmc.umn.edu

Jen Mein
Director for Academic Technologies
jen@umn.edu
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Sarah Knoblauch
CLA-OIT Project Manager
sjk@umn.edu
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The CLA Student Technology Fee Committee is composed of undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff from the College of Liberal Arts. In addition, a few representatives from units outside the college attend in a consultative manner. The committee meets during the academic year about 3-4 times a semester. The committee is responsible for reviewing grant proposals and making recommendations to CLA Administration on which projects are worthy of Student Technology Fee funding. In addition, committee members learn more about where and how the student technology fee is spent through facility tours, guest visitors, etc. We encourage you to get involved in this very important committee. Contact Jen or Sarah to learn more, or email techfees@umn.edu.

infotechfees.cla.umn.edu

Jeremy Wagner
Instructional Technology Fellow
wagne342@umn.edu
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School of Music Technology Committee

Sound spatialization has a long history in music composition dating back to early church music. More recently, modern composers have employed electronic means of sound diffusion for creating spatial dimensions to their compositions. Finally, the emerging ubiquity of home theater systems has provided the means by which surround sound recordings can be widely disseminated and enjoyed. The current research focuses on extending the surround sound paradigm and exploring its implementation as an interactive learning environment. Using off the shelf technology we have devised a system by which the student can manipulate the position of sound sources within two- and three-dimensional sound fields using a simple, intuitive Java interface. The user can even set individual sound sources into motion against each other. Spatial reflections and Doppler cues are calculated via a physical model for maximal realism. For this demonstration the user can participate in remixing and spatializing a classic, well-known recording.

music.umn.edu

John Easton
Manager
easton@umn.edu
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Pernu Menheer
Research Technician
pernu@umn.edu
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The SBSL has two facilities for investigators to conduct research with human participants: a 41-seat Windows XP computer lab in 170/174 Anderson Hall, West Bank campus, and a Tobii x50 eye-tracker device in a separate small lab. Many subjects may be run simultaneously using any IRB-approved computer-based survey, testing, programmed research, or web-access protocol. Related research method classes can also be accommodated. The lab is staffed by a manager and a research support technician, who work closely with the investigator to meet the protocol. We also coordinate with the research consultants, the web-based Survey Service, and the programming group in CLA-OIT.

sbsl.umn.edu
claoit.umn.edu

Walt Jacobs
Associate Professor and Chair
wrjacobs@umn.edu
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Candance Doerr-Stevens
Ph.D. Student, Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD
doer0026@umn.edu
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In the fall of 2008, Walt Jacobs (African American & African Studies) and Rachel Raimist (Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies) collaboratively designed and taught the course "Digital Storytelling in and with Communities of Color" to 18 undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines. Candance Doerr-Stevens (College of Education and Human Development) audited the class as a graduate student. This presentation will examine the media-making processes of the students in the course, asking how participants used digital storytelling to engage with themselves and the media through content creation that both mimicked and critiqued current media messages. In particular, the presentation will focus on how students used the medium of digital storytelling to build and remix identities for purposes of 1) rememory, 2) reinvention, and 3) cultural remixing. The digital stories and composing processes of the students will be explored through the same multimedia genre that the students were asked to use, that of digital storytelling.

We plan to show the digital story four times during the showcase: 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, and 2:30. This digital story runs for 12 and a half minutes; we will then have time for 15 minutes of questions before the next screening.

z.umn.edu/digitalstorytelling
afroam.umn.edu

A short video of the 2009 Academic Technologies Showcase.

Download the 2009 CLA Academic Technology Showcase booklet.

Learn about SWS.online, an innovative and evolving interface for one-to-one writing instruction developed by Student Writing Support consultants in the Center for Writing. At our exhibit, three members of the collaborative SWS.online development team will show how writers and consultants share and discuss writing in a hybrid process that combines asynchronous response and synchronous chat. We hope that seeing SWS.online in action and considering how we developed this interface in response to our teaching practice will spark ideas and discussion about the possibilities for writing instruction in online, hybrid, and even traditional classes.

Kirsten Jamsen, Director, kjamsen (at) umn (dot) edu
Katie Levin, Assistant Director, kslevin (at) umn (dot) edu
Linda Clemens, Graduate Writing Consultant, cleme017 (at) umn (dot) edu

Click here to learn more about the SWS.online.

Download a handout about Student Writing Support.

SLHS 1302 Rate Your World uses interactive teaching and learning technology both in the classroom and for student self learning. In-class SRS (Turning Point Student Response System and clickers) polls student competencies and measures opinions and outcomes. By the use of self study learning modules, online practice calculations, and online assignments, students are able to assess their own learning. On-line communication with lecturers and TAs through threaded discussion and weekly web chat enables students to sit at home and get help. Lecture slide and help sheets libraries supplement students with course documents that are accessible whenever students are online.

Leslie Glaze, Lecturer, glaze002 (at) umn (dot) edu
Peggy Nelson, Associate Professor, nelso477 (at) umn (dot) edu
Yu-Wen Chen, Graduate Student, chen1887 (at) umn (dot) edu

The Language Testing Program needed new software to test language proficiency for CLA students. Its Authorware-based software system was difficult to support. There was no simple way to create new exams for new languages. Over the past year, the Testing Program along with Language Center staff have worked to develop a new program written with Ruby-on-Rails and hosted on CLA-OIT servers. The new exams are delivered over the web. Along with replacing the existing Reading and Listening exams, a new Writing exam was developed along with a Grader interface which allows instructors to view and grade exams at home on their own computers. Exam templates allow for easy creation of new exams once the new content has been developed.

Diane Rackowski, Technical Coordinator, dianer (at) umn (dot) edu
Adi King, German Testing Coordinator, kingx083 (at) umn (dot) edu
Joanne Peltonen, Spanish Testing Coordinator, pelto003 (at) umn (dot) edu

Download some screen shots of the Reading, Listening, and Writing exams along with some shots of the Writing Exam Grader interface and the Administrative site.

For the past two years, CLA Student Services and the Department of Psychology have collaborated to improve our understanding of CLA undergraduates through the administration of a highly-customized online survey incorporating a number of non-traditional measures of student academic performance such as academic self-efficacy and academic self-discipline. This project presents a novel example of utilizing technology for both instructional and research purposes. In this exhibit, we will share some of the initial findings, potential implications, and future directions.

Colin DeLong, Coordinator of Technology & Analysis, CLA Student Services, delo0041 (at) umn (dot) edu
Stephanie Pituc, Graduate Student, pituc003 (at) umn (dot) edu

Download 2008 CLA Experience Survey Poster

Electronic music of all types is created and performed with both “classic” and state of the art hardware and software at the Sound, Technology & Research at the University of Minnesota (S.T.R.U.M.) Studios, located in Ferguson Hall. In their current incarnation, the S.T.R.U.M Studios enable many methods of music composition, music recording and production, sound synthesis and audio processing, video production, motion capture and construction and performance of software and hardware instruments for presentation in concert and multimedia contexts. Students are encouraged to experiment and explore their musical ideas with the studios’ technology, whatever their interests or background may be.

Students in our Music Education programs utilize some of the most innovative technologies proven effective in the enhancement of the learning experience. SmartBOARDs have been installed in three music classrooms, allowing teachers to interface directly with online resources from around the world, utilize multimedia demonstrations of complex concepts, and offer these same opportunities to students when making classroom presentations. SmartMusic, an "intelligent" accompaniment system, allows students to perform solo and ensemble literature with musical accompaniment that follows their expressive performance by slowing down or speeding up in response to the sound of the student's performance. These technologies have been integrated completely across our Music Education curriculum, so when students enter their own classroom as the next generation of music teachers, they take with them the technology skills that will help them be even more effective music teachers.

Scott D. Lipscomb, Associate Professor & Division Head, lipscomb (at) umn (dot) edu
Glenn Pohland, Assistant Professor, pohla011 (at) umn (dot) edu
Michael Duffy, Graduate Student, Music Composition, duffy110 (at) umn (dot) edu
David Krzenski, Graduate Student, Computer Science, krzen002 (at) umn (dot) edu
Brett Wartchow, Graduate Student, Music Composition, bwartchow (at) yahoo (dot) com
Nicolai Zielinski, Graduate Student, Music Composition, nzielins (at) umn (dot) edu

Undergraduate Sociology students often have a difficult experience with the required Social Statistics course-- in particular students frequently report being “lost” during weekly lab sections that incorporate SPSS. This last semester TAs for the course generated a collection of flash video “SPSS tutorials” to ameliorate many of the common difficulties encountered during labs. These 3-5 minute tutorials use screen-capturing software to illustrate step-by-step procedures for basic SPSS functions and analyses. Because these videos can be “paused” and watched an infinite amount of times on the course WebCT, YouTube and iTunes U channel, students can develop a familiarity with the program at their own pace. Thus far, the application of these videos have allowed TAs to focus more on the substance of social statistics during lab sections and less on the rote instructions of how to use the software. Students have also reported positively on the use of these videos.

Ross Macmillan, Associate Professor and Life Course Center Director, macmi005 (at) umn (dot) edu
Arturo Baiocchi. Graduate Student, baioc001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Frank Zhang, Graduate Student, zhang700 (at) umn (dot) edu

The College of Liberal Arts has engaged actively in innovative social media engines to enhance teaching and learning and to provide platforms for user generated content from instructors, administrators, and students. With an eye toward promoting student work and curricular media initiatives, CLA's iTunes U and YouTube channels provide another vehicle for the robust suite of audio and video projects being produced by our faculty and students.

Jude Higdon-Topaz, Managing Director, Technology-Enhanced Learning, jhigdon (at) umn (dot) edu
SeogJoo Hwang, Academic Technology Development Fellow, hwang134 (at) umn (dot) edu

Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping (MIIM) is a web-mapping application that supports educational activities on campus and beyond. MIIM provides basic geographic information science tools via a web browser, allowing classes to use the tools without the expense in training and software of full featured GIS applications. MIIM has been successfully used by 2,000 students at the University of Minnesota and 300 pupils in Twin Cities K-12 schools.

Steven Manson, Assistant Professor, manson (at) umn (dot) edu
Brenda Kayzar, Assistant Professor, kayzar (at) umn (dot) edu
Len Kne, Graduate Student, knex0001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Sami Eria, Graduate Student, eriax001 (at) umn (dot) edu

Download MIIM PowerPoint

Psy 1001, Introduction to Psychology, one of the largest enrollment classes at the University of Minnesota with approximately 2500 students per year, is a showcase for technology-enhanced learning. Online technology is used to make a class of this size engaging, accessible and flexible for University of Minnesota undergraduate students. Technological innovations include Multi-media lectures that are videotaped and delivered on-line and via iTunes U; exams, quizzes and evaluations that are administered on-line; and a website that serves as a portal for students—providing a platform for video-based activities and written assignments, videotaped updates, a comprehensive syllabus and offering access to extra-credit opportunities and useful resources.

Thomas Brothen, Professor, broth001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Kate Briggs, Coordinator, khbriggs (at) umn (dot) edu
Carla Bates, Information Technology, bates014 (at) umn (dot) edu

Using technology to connect, exchange and collaborate...

ARTS 5490: Beijing Now, is a course where art students from the University of Minnesota are exchanging ideas with students from the Beijing Film Academy toward a collaborative project. Through classroom instruction in technology, the use of e-mail, blogs, Skype (video conferencing), Facebook, instant and text messaging, digital photography, digital video, digital sound, animation, and other means, the conversations are engaged between student artists. Introducing multiple methods of communication each student collaborator is able to find the best way to employ disparate ideas for their joint project.

ARTS 5490 Students: Broc Blegen, Srijon Chowdry, David Brian Dobbs, Joanna Harmon, Lauren Herzak-Bauman, Laura Dammer Hess, Mary Beth Huttlin, Shonit Jain, Jonathan Ludwig, Meena Mangalvedhekar, Areca Roe, Chad Rutter, Lydia Schlicht, Jessica Teckemeyer, and Ross Yates.

Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, Affiliate Faculty, clyne003 (at) umn (dot) edu
Sonja Peterson, IT Professional and MFA Candidate, sonja (at) umn (dot) edu
Mike Ballard, Undergraduate Student, ball0261 (at) umn (dot) edu

Visit the Beijing Now blog at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/clyne003/beijingnow/

Join the Facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42810177702&ref=ts

Also, be sure to check out the Beijing Now exhibition starting May 21st at:
Quarter Gallery
Regis Center for Art
405 21st Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Here are a few videos of the students that were sent to their collaborators in Beijing.
Joanna Harmon
Mike Ballard
David Brian Dobbs
Laura Dammer Hess
Meena Mangalvedhekar
Jonathan Ludwig

Download a quick description of ARTS 5490: Beijing Now!

View a Bejing Now! blog shot

View Cheryl Wilgren Clyne and the Beijing Now! blog

View a screenshot of the blog

Serves CLA faculty, graduate students, and staff researchers. Our team of professionals has experience working with academic research and knows how to use the best tools available to transition your project to an accessible online format.

Thomas Lindsay, Survey Services Manager, lindsayt (at) umn (dot) edu
Andrew Sell, Survey Designer, sell0136 (at) umn (dot) edu

Students in World of the 'Net: Challenges of Digital Literacies, created podcasts that are now showcased in the University's public iTunes U site. Each podcast is designed make University research accessible to non-expert audiences.

The class had access to CLA's new mobile podcasting systems (CLAMPS) to record and produce their work. Each group was given an opportunity to create a trial podcast by interviewing fellow classmates and assembling a demo podcast. Those podcasts were critiqued by the class before the U in Focus podcasts were produced. Finally each student team interviewed a CLA faculty member and then planned, scripted and created the final prodcasts that are now available on iTunes U.

Laura Gurak, Professor and Chair, gurakl (at) umn (dot) edu
Kimberly Schultz, Graduate Student and IT Fellow, schul915 (at) umn (dot) edu

The world of video production is no longer restricted to those with years of training and limited social lives. Come learn about the wide range of options available on campus to assist with simple video production, from easy to use cameras to point and click editing software.

Video Made Easy will show you how simple it can be to record content, do simple editing, and then put that content online, using equipment available to anyone in CLA. For more information about video related opportunities on campus, visit media.cla.umn.edu.

Gary Ludwitzke, Coordinator, ludwi010 (at) umn (dot) edu
Colin McFadden, Multimedia Specialist, mcfa0086 (at) umn (dot) edu
Laura Cervin, Studio Manager, cervi001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Richard Stachow, Video Photographer, stac0021 (at) umn (dot) edu

View "Video Made Easy" Display

Time Dig is a tool that integrates images, maps, and timelines in a unique, web-based learning environment. Building on pedagogical theories of discovery-based learning and active learning, Time Dig provides an easy-to-use online interface that allows instructors to create a wide range of learning materials and assignments that have a geospatial, archival, and temporal component. The Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies is building an Archeology Portal with Time Dig that will allow students to go on a virtual expedition to uncover artifacts from ancient Italy, Greece and other sites in the Near East. Building and maintaining materials in Time Dig is simple, and is executed entirely through a point-and-click environment--no programming or HTML skills are required!

Andrea Berlin, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, aberlin (at) umn (dot) edu
Joe Goggins, IT Programmer, CLA-OIT, goggins (at) umn (dot) edu
Steve Hanson, IT Programmer, CLA-OIT, steveh (at) umn (dot) edu

View "Time Dig" Display (Left)
View "Time Dig" Display (Middle)
View "Time Dig" Display (Right)

The Course Transformation Program (CTP) was created through a partnership with the CLA Student Technology Fee Committee, the CLA Office of Information Technology, the Office of CLA Undergraduate Programs, and the Digital Media Center of the UMN Office of Information Technology.

The CTP is an exciting initiative designed to empower energetic, creative, and motivated faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts who want to innovate in the field of technology-enhanced
learning and put CLA at the forefront of 21st century undergraduate education. The proposals in the program are well aligned with our goals for transforming undergraduate education by exploring technology-enhanced teaching and learning practices to enhance learning outcomes and meet curricular and administrative demands.

Jude Higdon-Topaz, CLA Co-Coordinator, jhigdon (at) umn (dot) edu
Lauren Marsh, DMC Program Co-Coordnator, lauren (at) umn (dot) edu
Kurtis Scaletta, DMC Program Co-Coordnator, kurtis (at) umn (dot) edu

Four WRIT 1301 sections in the Fall of 2008 used Moodle.umn.edu for a unit assignment. Two sections were face-to-face, one was online, and one was hybrid (one face-to-face meeting per week). The assignment was an analysis paper on a visual or multimodal text used in the 2008 Presidential Election. The assignment was divided into several interactive activities posted on the Moodle course site to assist the student’s awareness and understanding of analytical writing. These activities consisted of: (1) a rhetorical analysis of a sample text with the application of the rhetorical triangle (2) an interactive annotated bibliography (3) an online library tutorial (4) thesis statements about texts with cross-section feedback (5) analysis Paper with peer feedback. Each stage of the assignment was posted on the Moodle course website, along with guidelines, due dates, expectations, and resources.

Tom Reynolds, Director of First-Year Writing, reyno004 (at) umn (dot) edu
Tim Gustafson, Associate Director of First-Year Writing, (at) umn (dot) edu
Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Associate Professor, lkbreuch (at) umn (dot) edu
Kimberly Schultz, Graduate Student and IT Fellow, schul915 (at) umn (dot) edu
Andrew Rudman, undergraduate student, rudma005 (at) umn (dot) edu

The Digital Content Library (DCL) is a collaboratively built and shared resource between the College of Design and the College of Liberal Arts. It contains over 200,000 images, audio and video materials. By providing a central infrastructure that supports and preserves content via a union catalog, new collections are able to join the DCL to make their content accessible to a larger audience. Thumbnail images and cataloging descriptions are available to the world while larger images, audio and video files are password protected and accessible only to students, faculty and staff. A new feature is the Media Drawers which allows users to collect and share content, so come take a look!

Rebecca Moss, Coordinator, mossx014 (at) umn (dot) edu
Ginny Larson, Assistant Curator, larso037 (at) umn (dot) edu
Denne Wesolowski, Assistant Curator, weso0001 (at) umn (dot) edu

Download DCL Brochure

Download DCL Poster

Developed by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies with a financial investment of the University of Minnesota CLA-OIT Student Technology Fee Committee, Cuaderno is a system for creating and managing web-based writing assignments and projects. Cuaderno allows instructors to create and then provide timely and contextualized feedback on online writing assignments via a system of color-coded markups and rubrics. Cuaderno is scalable and adaptable to conform to the various writing needs of a class. The instructors have the opportunity to manage and create various rubrics and templates to emphasize different components of the writing process. Students draft and submit their writing assignments online, and then receive their instructor’s comments within the same Cuaderno environment.

Frances Matos-Schultz, Senior Lecturer, matos001 (at) umn (dot) edu

Psy 3011 surveys the major 20th century approaches to the psychology of learning. Basic issues in philosophy of science and critical reasoning are also addressed. The course has been reorganized into 14 standardized units containing online and in-class assignments and activities. Each unit begins with a live preview lecture and a small group pre-unit problem solving exercise. Next, students read the textbook assignment and download the main unit lecture for study and review. Students then take an online mastery quiz on the unit that consists of several questions drawn at random from a large item pool. The mastery quiz may be taken repeatedly, but a criterion score must be achieved for the student to be eligible to take an online final unit quiz. Additional live lecture content and a post-unit group exercise further prepare the student for the final unit quiz. The course concludes with a proctored online final exam.

Tom Brothen, Professor, broth001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Gail Peterson, Associate Professor, peter004 (at) umn (dot) edu
Jeff Engelmann, Graduate Student, enge0351 (at) umn (dot) edu
Achara Albert, Student, alber186 (at) umn (dot) edu

Minneapolis Art on Wheels is an on-going public arts initiative. We leverage advanced mobile technology to bring socially engaged art and technology into diverse communities. We aim to use the scale and accessibility of our exhibitions to make the Twin Cities an international leader in socially engaged and technologically enhanced creative projects.

We are able to produce moving images up to several hundred feet, outdoors, in public spaces. Our emphasis on mobile devices (i.e. cellular phones) and gestural interaction with media (e.g. laser tag, real-time video tracking and gesture recognition) allows a wide audience to interact with mobile media. The project engages students in creative use of technology and materializes this engagement in the form of community outreach and temporary public art.

Ali Momeni, Assistant Professor, ali (at) umn (dot) edu

The SBSL has two facilities for investigators to conduct research with human participants: a 41-seat Windows XP computer lab in 170/174 Anderson Hall, West Bank campus, and a Tobii x50 eye-tracker device in a separate small lab. Many subjects may be run simultaneously using any IRB-approved computer-based survey, testing, programmed research, or web-access protocol. Related research method classes can also be accommodated. The lab is staffed by a manager and a research support technician, who work closely with the investigator to meet the protocol.

We also coordinate with the research consultants, the web-based Survey Service, and the programming group in CLA-OIT.

John Easton, Manager, easton (at) umn (dot) edu
Pernu Menheer, Research Technician, pernu (at) umn (dot) edu

As part of CLA's Course Transformation Program, partnering departments with support from College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology, we are revising a large enrollment, required, writing-intensive introductory course that is taught in stand-alone sections of 20 students each (about 5-6 per semester) so as to integrate technologies as appropriate to our goals of fostering analytical skills, composition in Spanish, and familiarity with a range of cultural objects and practices across history and geography in the Spanish-speaking world.

Joanna O'Connell, Associate Professor, oconn001 (at) umn (dot) edu

Download the poster.

View the interactive version of Diego Rivera's mural.

Download a presentation about the course and the transformation.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty wanted to give their media graphics students experience working in on-line environments. Blogs provided an excellent platform to display their media graphics projects. Using Blogger students completed two different types of assignments. In one assignment, they researched a famous graphic designer, created a media presentation, and used a blog to display that artist’s work. In another assignment, students posted their own designs, creating a portfolio to showcase their work to others. The projects challenge students to incorporate various design elements in a way that effectively communicates to different audiences.

Debra Kelley, Adjunct Faculty, debra (at) hallkelley (dot) com, www.hallkelley.com
Nance Longley, Adjunct Faculty, longley (at) umn (dot) edu
Darin Mather, Graduate Student and Senior IT Fellow, mathe148 (at) umn (dot) edu

Here's a link for one of the portfolios: http://swihartportfolio.blogspot.com/.

Download a screenshot of a designer report.

Download the poster and handout materials.

A small overview of how students use the technology acquired through InfoTech grants and departmental funding in the primary production courses in the Department of Communication Studies. Courses discussed include Comm 3201: Introduction to Electronic Media Production, Comm 3202: Audio Production and Media Literacy, Comm 3204: Advanced Electronic Media Production, and Comm 5110: Producing for Television.

Peter B. Gregg, Lecturer, gregg008 (at) umn (dot) edu
Mark Neuman-Scott, Graduate Student, neuma168 (at) umn (dot) edu

When the Department of Sociology brought Contexts magazine to Minnesota, we wanted to make good on the award-winning print publication's public outreach mission. This project will showcase the work of CLA faculty and students in creating a popular website, contexts.org, a network of blogs such as the contexts crawler for students and teachers, and our lively podcasts featuring interviews with sociologists and public intellectuals.

Chris Uggen, Professor and Chair/Co-Editor, uggen001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Doug Hartmann, Professor/Co-Editor, hartm021 (at) umn (dot) edu
Amy Johnson, Managing Editor, amy (at) contexts (.) org
Arturo Baiocchi, Graduate Student, baioc001 (at) umn (dot) edu
Amelia Corl, Graduate Student, amelia (at) contexts (.) org
Jon Smajda, Graduate Student, smaj0002 (at) umn (dot) edu
Jesse Wozniak, Graduate Student, wozni019 (at) umn (dot) edu

Technology in Contexts Video

Download Technology in Contexts PowerPoint