Arts Technology Initiatives

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Arts Technology Initiatives

• Terry Butler
• Arts Technologies for Learning Centre
• University of Alberta

UCASG 2001 March
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Introduction

• technology support in the Faculty of Arts
• Arts Technologies for Learning Centre
• Master of Arts in Humanities Computing

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Arts Technology Support

• 15 departments 4 main buildings (and some
  outliers)
• migrating local networks from 10 to 100 from
  shared to switched
• centralized departmental file print servers
  (Novell) Windows NT 2000 Unix web servers
• three technical support staff (plus a half-time
  student this term) need to grow to keep up with
  demand

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Arts Technology Support

• demo of wireless technology
• Arts TLC Projects Room, 5-21F Humanities Centre
• 1000am 300pm, Tuesday March 20

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Arts TLC Mandate

• assist departments and the Faculty of Arts with
  general technology issues
• guide, advise, and assist teachers in accessing
  appropriate technology for their teaching
• cultivate and develop the knowledge and skills of
  faculty, staff, and students with respect to
  technology and teaching
• provide input to policy decisions and coordinate
  at the campus level and beyond

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Measures of success

• penetration - accessed by over 100 of our 680
  teaching staff
• facilities - large increase in computer labs and
  smart classrooms in our areas
• perceptions - significant technology-based
  research and teaching projects are underway
  (Orlando Canada Research Chairs MACI-funded
  Anthropology lab)

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Skills training
workshops

• hands-on, active sessions which lead to a product
  which the instructor works on
• Personal Web Page Design
• Creating Digital Images

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Skills training
seminars

• demonstrations of effective work done by
  colleagues
• discussions of needs -- facilities, software,
  resources

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Skills training
short non-credit courses

• we broker a wide variety of on- and off-campus
  courses
• our focus is on courses which lead to immediate
  use of the technology
• Dreamweaver website authoring
• PowerPoint for Active Learning

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Skills training
one-on-one help

• direct consultation with our on-staff
  Instructional Designer
• work with our Student Mentors

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TLC Projects Room

• advise, help, production support for teaching
  staff

Projects Room 5-21 Humanities Centre
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Example projects

• Create "impossible" access to educational content
• student access to high-quality art images
• http//www.arts.ualberta.ca/AMICO
• Change the way subjects are taught
• Philosophy 101 website
• www.arts.ualberta.ca/phil101/
• Create realistic simulations
• Political Science 468
• more examples at www.arts.ualberta.ca/TLC/OpenStag
  e

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Master of Arts in Humanities Computing

• New academic program starting in September 2001
• Combination of critical-thinking skills and
  technology competence
• Students will take a Projects course which will
  involve a campus or off-campus partner

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Master of Arts in Humanities Computing

• High-end production resources (digitization, text
  analysis, multimedia)
• New lab to come on stream in 2002
• Opportunity to build open-source tools in text
  analysis and digital media areas
• www.arts.ualberta.ca/huco

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To learn more ...

• Call us
• Arts TLC [phone]
• Visit us
• 5-21 Humanities Centre
• E-mail us
• ArtsTLC_at_mail.arts.UAlberta.ca
• Watch our Web site
• www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC