AGENDA CROSSING URBAN BORDERS The New Media Classroom Borough of Manhattan CC July 10 - 14, 2000

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8:30 AM:  Optional Windows Workshop

9 AM:   Introductions and Welcome

9:45 AM:  Speakeasy Cafe: An Electronic Discussion of Pedagogical Goals

• Go to the Speakeasy Cafe <http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/>  
• Speakeasy Instructions

11 AM: Overview: Crossing Urban and Digital Borders

12 PM: Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1 PM:  Presentation and discussion of two web-sites created by the American Social History Project. (Pennee Bender/ASHP)

• History Matters <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/>  
• French Revolution Project

2 PM:  Student Inquiry and the Electronic Archive

• Group A: Voices from the Grapes of Wrath
• Group B: Art and the Shaping of Identity
• Group C: Red Hot Jazz
• Group D: West Nile Virus
• Group E: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

4:30 PM: Speakeasy Cafe – What makes a good activity?

• Go to the Speakeasy Cafe <http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/>  

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TUESDAY, JULY 11

 9 AM:  Surveying Electronic Resources  

• Go to Web-site and CD Survey

12 PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1 PM:  New Stories, New Voices: Online Syllabi and Student Authored Projects

• Go to Hands On Activities

3:30 PM:  Speakeasy Cafe – Brainstorming New Media Classroom Course Materials and Projects

• Go to the Speakeasy Cafe <http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/>

4 -5:30 PM  Optional Workshop on BlackBoard 

6 PM:  Dinner at a Tribeca Restaurant

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9 AM: From Print to Electronic to Dynamic: Using Front Page 2000 to Create Web Syllabi and Materials

11 AM: Planning Time

12 PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1 PM:  "Up South" – Modeling and Developing Materials in Different Media: Print/ Film/ Digital

• Activity One: The World They Came To -- Chicago
• Activity Two:  Jacob's Ladder--Migrations Stories through Visual Art
• Activity Three:  "Talking and Testifying, Speaking and Speechifying" The Sound of Jazz
• Activities Four: Strategies for Change: Terell, Washington, Du Bois and Garvey
• Activity 5: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
  

4 PM:  "Up South" – Creating Links with Other Regional New Media Classroom Seminars  

• Go to the Speakeasy Cafe <http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/>

4:30 - 5:30 PM:  Optional Search Engine/Directory Workshop (Geoffrey Akst)

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9 AM:  Writing Across the Curriculum:  The Collaborative Classroom in Old and New Media  (Jane Paznik-Bondarin/ BMCC)

• Go to Hands-on Activity

11 AM: Landscapes in Time: The Barnum Museum – A Demonstration and Discussion of an Experimental Multi-Medial Project by the ASHP  (Josh Brown and Andrea Ades Vasquez/ ASHP)

• Go to Virtual Barnum (ASHP)

12 PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1 PM:  Planning Time  

4 PM:  Optional PowerPoint Workshop (David Jaffee)

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 9 AM: New Media Classroom: What’s Next?

• Online Forum
• Future Meetings
• NMC Faculty Development — How Do We Widen the Circle?
• Collaborative Projects  
• Reality Check

10:30 AM:  Planning Time/ Developing Classroom Materials

12 PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1 PM:  Planning Time/ Show and Tell NMC Classroom Materials

3:30 PM:  Final face-to-face and Cafe Reflections

• Go to the Speakeasy Cafe <http://morrison.wsu.edu/studio/>

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