Tired of hauling bags of videotapes, overheads, audiocassettes, and CDs to class? Curious about how you could use PowerPoint presentations, material on the web, or your own multimedia DVDs to enhance your teaching?  Interested in developing multimedia project assignments for your students?  The Reboot Institute on Teaching with Digital Media will provide a framework in which you can acquire new skills and complete a project that will complement your teaching.   

Participants will create a digital media project that incorporates audio, video, images, and text using iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iWeb, and iDVD), PowerPoint, Audacity, and Adobe Photoshop Elements applications. The workshops will showcase some examples and introduce the various software programs.  In each hands-on session, you’ll learn some basic techniques for making and manipulating digital media, and have some workshop time to make some progress on your project. The end result will be the creation of “learning objects” that make the most of the digital technologies available to us. The Institute is open to all faculty with, regardless of prior experience with digital audio, images, and video.

To help develop the skills you’ll need to successfully complete the project, you’ll attend the kick-off dinner/planning session, a minimum of three workshops, and a project showcase at the end of the summer.  In the first three workshops, you’ll find out how to make the pieces that will comprise your project, whether it results in a multimedia DVD or an aesthetic and interesting PowerPoint presentation.   The final workshop branches out to embrace forms of  “user-generated” digital media associated with “Web 2.0” such as podcasts and blogs; we’ll explore some ideas for developing digital media assignments for your students.  

You’ll work with a mentor (who will guide you through your project), resources (books and online resources), and the fine folks at the CTMI (who will help you acquire the skills you need to realize your project). We’ll conclude with a showcase of participants’ projects and a discussion of ways of enriching teaching with digital media.  

Participants receive a six month subscription to Lynda.com, a book about teaching with iLife 08, and a copy of Edward Tufte’s provocative essay, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within.” Upon completion of learning goal/project, participants will also receive a Photoshop Elements software package.

Dinner Session: The Possibilities of Digital Media: Planning Your Project

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

6:00–8:00 p.m.

Steve Heck Room, 1140 Boylston

Dinner provided

Workshop 1:  The Basics: Digital Images and Digital Audio

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Room 204/205, 186 Mass. Ave.

Lunch provided at 1:00 p.m.

Workshop 2: Digital Video, Video Editing, YouTube, and iDVD

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Room 204/205, 186 Mass. Ave.

Lunch provided at 1:00 p.m.

Workshop 3: Presenting Digital Media with Power Point

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Room 204/205, 186 Mass. Ave.

Lunch provided at 1:00 p.m.

Workshop 4:  Multimedia Assignments for Students:  Podcasting, Blogs, & iWeb

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Room 204/205, 186 Mass. Ave.

Lunch provided at 1:00 p.m.

Project Showcase

Wednesday, July 30, 2008  

6:00–8:00 p.m.

Dinner provided

Lab F44, 22 Fenway