Comments on: Workshops

By: Sandra Flowers

Sandra Flowers — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:03:00 +0000

There’s an incredibly rich, large, educational virtual location on Second Life called the Museum of the African American Experience. We (WISE, wiseresources.wordpress.com) have our freshman and sophomore students do research and writing assignments every year based on the museum’s holdings. We’ve also built a slave ship in Second Life that students are powerfully impacted by during their Trans-Atlanta Slave Trade immeresive experience in world history. Will be happy to take you to both venues during the camp.

By: Sandra Flowers

Sandra Flowers — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:50:00 +0000

Nicely developed site! I’ve been visiting your Cotton Club for a couple of years but never went outside, thinking the rest was another sim. The CAU WISE (wiseresources.wordpress.com) program can accommodate Second Life interests in our computer lab, even providing avatars for those without. Also, since WISE has two islands and Instructional Technology Assistants on staff (undergrad WISE students), we can also offer workshops for anyone who’d like to try out building or create an environments that requires no building.

By: Shane Landrum

Shane Landrum — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:48:01 +0000

I’m interested in teaching a bootcamp on doing African-American history with digital tools. Please email me to talk about what kinds of material might be useful.

By: Bryan Carter

Bryan Carter — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:26:39 +0000

love the ideas above. How about getting the students involved in programming, role playing and performing within Second Life. This experience ready them for using those skills within other virtual worlds and a different form of social interaction. Using the existing project of Virtual Harlem/Montmartre, they can then focus on “doing things” within the world as opposed to having to create it. Although there may be an opportunity to teach those interested in doing so, how to “build” within virtual environments. I would love to get Virtual Harlem/Montmartre project some HBCU exposure and get students involved somehow.

By: Sonya Donaldson

Sonya Donaldson — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:48:51 +0000

Jenni, that’s a great idea. I also would like us to consider access on the student side and think about workarounds for them from a pedagogical standpoint. For example, last spring I set up a Gowalla Library trip and some mobile activities for my first-year students, then discovered that a good chunk of them were without smart phones. We came up with some alternatives (mobile Gowalla on their laptops, for example) but it would be helpful to think about access issues from their perspective. Also, given this particular context, what are the challenges for HBCUs in the DH?

By: Michelle Kassorla

Michelle Kassorla — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:47:43 +0000

Great Idea, Jenni!!

By: Jenni Halpin

Jenni Halpin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:15:24 +0000

I’m new at my HBCU, but one of the themes running through many of my interactions so far has been the belief (expressed by my new colleagues) that our campus is less-well-funded than non-HBCU campuses. Certainly our technological infrastructure is more dated than other that of campuses at which I’ve worked.

This in mind, my suggestion would be to consider a mini-focus on work-arounds: solutions for contexts without data projectors, wireless connections, robust digital course management systems, etc. More pointedly, how do we bring our THATCamp learning to students who may have cell phones but whose only access to a computer is in a minimally supplied lab?

By: Michelle Kassorla

Michelle Kassorla — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:21:36 +0000

Bootcamp Idea:

How to identify and write HBCU-directed grants.

By: Michelle Kassorla

Michelle Kassorla — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:19:57 +0000

Here’s an idea for the developer’s challenge:

Create user-friendly app. that highlights the special collections at HBCU libraries.

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