Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series: The Whole Enchilada: Towards 'Transparent' Technology in the Humanities Classroom
Wednesday, May 5
11:45-1:15 Buntrock 142
Diana Postlethwaite, English and 2003-2004 CILA Associate
Few teachers in 2004 would describe xeroxed hand-outs, word processing, or e-mail as "using technology." What are today's teaching technologies that faculty someday will no longer call "teaching technologies," because they will have become seamlessly integrated into the daily practices of teaching and learning? What will it take for these technologies to become "transparent"?
Based on her experiences in teaching a seminar capstone course in the English department in Fall 2003, Diana will lead this CILA Conversation through four categories on the (sometimes bumpy) road to "transparent technology" in the humanities classroom:
- Dread-full Machinery: the computer/camera/DVD
"Smart Carte"; the web-based class discussion board;
- Click/Thud (Great Format, Problematic Content):
designing a course-specific web site;
- Should We Even Call This "Technology?"
(e-mail; word processing; the on-line library catalogue; full-text
databases; web browsing)
- Transformative Technologies: weekly electronic journals deposited in a class "drop box" on the college server; End Note bibliographical software; posting final student papers online.
