Presentations:   Podcasting 101: Get Your Students to Listen to Your Downloads John Balling We will explore one of the hottest trends in technology use in higher education – “podcasting.”  Discover how faculty at other colleges and universities are utilizing material delivered to iPODs and other MP3 players to enhance instruction.  Learn what’s involved in making your own podcasts.   ArtStor Ann Nicgorski, Doreen Simonsen and Cheryl Cramer This presentation explores the nature of ARTstor as a database and a presentation tool for educational and scholarly activities.  Doreen Simonsen will discuss ARTstor as a database and research tool that provides access to hundreds of thousands of high quality images from museums, galleries and archives worldwide.  Cheryl Cramer will demonstrate techniques for using Artstor and show how to create image groups (or course folders) to build personal collections for research and classroom use.  She will also provide an introduction to the Offline Image Viewer 2.0, an ARTstor presentation tool and the Personal Collection Tool, which allows users to upload images into the ARTstor environment. Finally, Ann Nicgorski will show a finished ARTstor presentation and will facilitate discussion on the pros and cons of the ARTstor solution to shared digital image collections, cataloguing, and management.   Video Dubbing Maria Blanco and Natalia Shevchenko Video production affords language students an excellent task-based environment to develop in all language skill areas: listening, reading,  writing and speaking. Dubbing of muted video clips provides similar benefits to full video production while minimizing the technological  challenges. This presentation will give a summary of a video dubbing project undertaken by a Spanish translation class, with the support of the Language Learning Center.   Crossing Boundaries: using GIS in Politics and Environmental Policy Courses Joe Bowersox Politics and Public Policy has always had a spatial dimension--whether it is the distribution of voters, the regulation of hazardous and toxic waste,  or the creation of a Species Recovery Plan. I will briefly describe and show the use of GIS as an aid to analytical thinking in two of my courses, Politics 210 (American Politics) and Politics 341 (Environmental Policymaking).   GIS - Terns and Trees David Craig I'll be showing two products a campus tree map in its incipient form and the migratory patterns of Caspian Terns from Oregon to Mexico.   Digital Video in the Classroom Alicia Denicola I will share my experience as a first-time user of digital film in the classroom. Focusing on a group research project done fall term last year, I would suggest that the use of such tools for social analysis can add depth and personal involvement to a project as well as provide a record of research data that can be made available to students over time. The film itself has done double duty in the classroom as a learning tool both as social information and pedagogically, and I'll discuss things I might do differently as I contemplate how to use similar techniques in the future.   Google Scholar and "Power Tools" for Research Bill Kelm and John Repplinger Google Scholar and "Power Tools" for Research The Hatfield Library is teaming up with Google to offer the Willamette Community enhanced access to library resources.  Come learn about Google Scholar, and other "power tools" to make your research more efficient.   The Research Path Jo Meyertons Social tagging resources via web sites such as FURL and CiteULike, combined with bibliographic software such as Endnote can help facilitate the organization and use of research citations. In this brief presentation, I will show how I used these tools to help create my dissertation.

The Tech Fair is a project of the
WITS Instructional Support Group, which includes:

Cheryl Cramer
Diana Cureton
Chris Gramlich
Jo Meyertons
Robert Minato
Marti Morandi
Natalia Shevchenko
Vany Xiong