Integrating Digital Literacies (IDL)
OIT will provide Student Media Mentors to faculty for course-specific training and support of students undertaking multimedia projects as part of their regular course assignments. The media projects are designed to integrate research and content with digital literacy concepts including: information fluency, visual literacy, media scholarship and digital publishing.
See what faculty and mentors have to say about their experiences:
Video Participants
- Henry Art - Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
- Shawn Rosenheim - Professor of English
- Daniel Fast ’10 - Mentor for: GERM 101, GERM 104, THEA 305
- Charles Rousseau ’11 - Mentor for: ENGL 203, RUSS 252
Recent IDeaL course project examples
- S’12 – HIST 359 – Presidential Leadership, 1776 to 1860
- F’12 – THEA 228 – The Cartographic Imagination
- S’10 – AFAM 202 - Race and New Technologies
- F’09 – BIOL 225 - Natrual History of the Berkshires
IDeaL courses for 2011-12
THEA 228: Self Production – using iPads and class blog site to research, write and produce a show.
AMST 310: Theories & Methods in American Studies – creating Multimedia Narrative(video) projects.
PSCI 337: Digital Political Theory – using Android tablets to collaborate and enhance discussion.
HIST 359: Presidential Leadership, 1776 to 1860 – creating campaign commercials relevant to historical issues & candidates.
AFR 316: Sacred Cinema – creating Multimedia Narrative(video) projects.
AFR 200: Introduction to Africana Studies – presenting research in graphic novel format.
DANC 207: Anatomy for Movers – producing mini-documentary style videos.
GERM 104: Intermediate German II – graphic novel production of written and spoken language.
IDeaL courses for 2010-11
ENVI/ENGL 257: Imagining Contamination – students will use a blog to publish commentary, reflect on class topics and share research.
ENGL 127: Film Montage: students will dissect and reassemble footage from published films to explore the impact of editing on story telling.
GERM 101: Students will create graphic novels to practice written and spoken language.
DANC 207: Anatomy for Movers – students will have option of creating a mulitmedia narrative (video) as their final project/presentation
RUSS 252: Continuing Russian – students will use the multimedia narrative format to relate a personal story in Russian.
