1. Why? English New Media Classroom Chris Higgins, Instructional Technology Specialist, OIT Catherine Hays, Associate Director, Academic Technology, College of ARHU Lenita Williamson, Campus Computing Associate, College of ARHU

2. Getting to know you Who are you? What do you teach? What do you do in your classes? What are your expectations for using this facility ?

3. WAM login Ask for a login if you don’t have a current wam account. Getting WAM account: –ftp to wam.umd.edu, type register, fill in information –See Kathy Russell to have account authorized, krussell@deans.umd.edu,krussell@deans.umd.edu –5-2116

4. Access to Tools Word Processor Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker… Image Editing: Photoshop… Presentation Graphics: Powerpoint… Internet: email, WWW, file sharing… Webpage Creation: Dreamweaver… VCR Projection

5. File Sharing Via College server- mid to late Sept.

6. File Sharing File distribution via the web- http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colle ges/ARHU/Depts/English/instructors/G Oliver/TechnicalWriting/ http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colle ges/ARHU/Depts/English/instructors/G Oliver/TechnicalWriting/ Inform via WebSpinner Wam or Glue via direct FTP

7. Communication Collaborative Virtual Workspace

8. Login: Collaborative Virtual Workspace Login: sqhntxx Password: cvwxx for example: Login: sqhnt01 Password: cvw01

9. Other tools with similar functionality: WebCT WebChat, example pagesexample pages One Minute Paper, Multichat HyperNews: http://www.forums.umd.edu/arthcourse/ hypernews/get/examplecourse.html http://www.forums.umd.edu/arthcourse/ hypernews/get/examplecourse.html

10. Hypernews Setting up hypernews threaded discussion: http://www.forums.umd.edu/

11. Access to Resources Primary source materials: digitized manuscripts Visual material, scanned images Video/ Audio Material Multimedia Collections

12. Small Group Collaboration What did you find at the site that you did not expect to? What might your students find useful at these sites? How do these sites deal with similar material differently? What might be challenging about using these sites as resources?

13. Put the tools in the hands of the students Oral Presentations with Powerpoint Collaborative projects such as website creation Research Projects

14. Resources for Professional Writing http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/wo rkshops/english/orientnewmediaclassro om.html http://www.arhu.umd.edu/technology/wo rkshops/english/orientnewmediaclassro om.html

15. Assessment: email, CVW, Hypernews What are some things that you think you could use this room for? What questions do you still have? Is there anything that we did not touch on that you would like to know about?

16. What's next? Possibilities More indepth training sessions Other training opportunities

17. Technology tools can help you: address challenges that you face meet the needs of different learning styles respond to diverse populations facilitate greater participation by the students improve students writing and research skills provide access to Resources: Web, CDRom, DVD prepare students for academic and professional worlds

18. Resources Chris Higgins, 5-5190, chiggins@deans.umd.edu Catherine Hays, 5-2886, chays@deans.umd.edu chays@deans.umd.edu Lenita Williamson, Lw176@umail.umd.edu New Instructional Technology staff member