1. Wesleyan’s Academic Technology Roundtable Michael Roy Director of Academic Computing Services & Digital Library Projects Michael.roy@wesleyan.edu Slides: http://mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talks/nercomp-cop-oct04/

2. Overview Partners History Logistics & Costs Sample Programs Projects/Initiatives Context Academic Commons

3. Partners Library Academic Computing Services Center for Faculty Career Development 2GFYI (First Year Initiative, 2 nd Generation)

4. Context #1: Aerial Geography

5. Context # 2: Cyclical Academic Process Selecting Reflecting Evaluating sources Choosing texts Categorizing Planning & Advising Registering Requesting Services Scheduling Announcing Authorizing Administration Quizzing Grading Testing Assessing Writing, publishing,analyzing, critical reading, discussing, graphing,simulating, annotating, comparing, contrasting, mapping, editing Learning & Teaching

6. 20022001200019991998 Conext #3: Evolution of Instructional Services (at Wesleyan) Public Computing Labs Resnet Smart Classrooms Instructional Support (separate from desktop support) WebTech Program Course Management Systems Learning Object Development Digitization Service

7. History of Academic Technology Roundtable Began Fall 1998 Modeled after the TLTR (Teaching,Learning, Technology Roundtable) http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/TLTR/home.htm http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/TLTR/home.htm Academic not Teaching/Learning quite on purpose

8. Logistics ATR=Weekly lunchtime talk Web Page (http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ )http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ Planning group (meets twice a year) Email notifications/calendar –Faculty list –Library list –Ad hoc list (subscribable via web)

9. Costs 22 lunches x 30 people x $7/lunch=$4,620 Speakers from outside (4 x $500=$2,000) Administration/marketing FREE!

10. Sample Programs: Why Blackboard? Three faculty who have recently decided to start using Blackboard will discuss their decision-making process for choosing to use Blackboard, and their plans and strategies for making effective use of it. David Westmoreland (Chemistry), Mary Alice Haddad (Government), and Kim Root (Dance) will lead the discussion.

11. What are Scholarly Communications and why it matters to liberal arts education? Scholarly Communications used to mean books, journals, and conference proceedings. As the scholarly world has become increasingly digital, the format and possibilities for how academics share information are rapidly changing, and not always for the better.Barbara Jones, Steve Bischof, and Michael Roy will frame the general question of what scholarly communications are,describe some specific and very real problems that the scholarly community faces, and outline some possible solutions (and problems with those solutions.) See also the ATR Scholarly Communications Working Group Website

12. "Science and Art" as a possible General Education Course at Wesleyan The science and technology involved in creating, understanding, authenticating and conserving works of art presents an interesting possibility for the development of a General Education course or courses at Wesleyan that carries NSM expectation credit. This past summer we have compiled a considerable amount of source material and links to web sites in this subject area. An overview of this initiative will be presented along with an examination of some of the best web sites, some quite dynamic, containing related material. Presenters: Mariah Klaneski ''04, David Beveridge (Chemistry and 2GFYI)

13. Projects/Initiatives Scholarly Communications Working Group Visual Resources Working Group Teaching Matters Academic Web Architecture Information Commons

14. faculty librarians technologists faculty development faculty librarians technologists faculty development faculty librarians technologists faculty development

15. Academic Commons http://www.academicommons.org

20. Stay Informed ATR Mailing List http://www.wesleyan.edu/atr/ Academic Commons Announcements http://www.academiccommons.org