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Subject: NEH New Media Classroom Institute: Comparative Diasporas
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For those who might like to see Pennsylvania in June, an institute on
migration.
Judy
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:38:24 -0600
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>Subject: NEH New Media Classroom Institute: Comparative Diasporas
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>Comparative Diasporas: New Media Classroom Summer Institute
>Location: Pennsylvania, United States
>Summer Program Registration Deadline: 2000-04-21
>
>This is an announcement of an NEH New Media Classroom weeklong institute
>this June. The institute is open to secondary and college teachers,
>community and museum educators.
>
>Comparative Diasporas and The New Media Classroom: An NEH Summer Seminar
>
>The American Social History Project (CUNY) and the American Studies
>Association's Crossroads Project announce that the Millersville
>University (MU) will, for a third consecutive year, host one of six regional
>summer
>seminars funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Located in
>Lancaster County, PA, the New Media Classroom Regional Center at
>Millersville University is dedicated to bringing educators together to
>systematically investigate and implement the effective incorporation of
>print and electronic media in various teaching and learning
>environments.
>
>The 2000-2001 MU-NMC summer institute, organized around the theme of
>"Comparative Diasporas," will build on the previous MU-NMC summer
>institutes' thematic emphasis on the centrality of migration. It will
>expand the existing MU-NMC network of educators from diverse sites
>(schools, colleges and universities, community centers, museums,
>historic sites, and other historical and cultural institutions) to include
>participants from the 2000-2001 institute program.
>
>The program at Millersville includes a five-day summer institute
>(Sunday, June 25 through Friday June 30, 2000), a yearlong on-line seminar,
>and
>follow-up meetings focusing on the successful implementation of new
>media based instruction and interpretation. Working to enhance investigation
>and interpretation at their own sites, institute participants will explore
>relevant print and electronic resources that will enable them to
>elaborate connections between local histories, national histories, and world
>or
>global histories. Drawing on digital archives and museum exhibits,
>educators from diverse institutions will collaborate to develop
>instructional and interpretive activities and programs geared to the
>particularities of their own settings.
>
>The summer seminar will enable participating educators to: a) promote
>the ability of students and other learners to construct knowledge and make
>connections in multi-media, text, images and sound; b) explore a range
>of new humanities resources available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web; c)
>integrate technology into individual courses, school curricula, and
>public interpretive programs; d) work with scholars and educators who have
>pioneered in developing new media applications; and e) build an
>ever-widening community of educators committed to exploring what it
>means to learn, teach, and interpret in technology-enhanced sites. Returning
>to their institutions for the 2000-2001 school year, participating faculty
>will test the strategies they developed during the summer institute
>while continuing a seminar dialogue on-line. By the end of the institute,
>we
>anticipate participants leaving with tangible products:
>* Web-based and CD-ROM activities that they have developed
>* Approaches for using e-mail, listservs and/or educational software to
>facilitate writing and inquiry across the curriculum
>* Skills in web-authoring and searching as tools for the construction of
>knowledge
>* Lists of resources, electronic archives, Web sites, educational
>software, etc
>* Strategies for increasing access to computer hardware and software
>* Plans for widening the circle and promoting the New Media Classroom at
>their institution/site
>* An ongoing network of new media practitioners who, meeting both
>electronically and sometimes face-to-face, will (1) sum-up a growing
>body of experience, (2) problem-solve, and (3) build support systems.
>
>The 1998 summer institute agenda is available at:
>http://www.millersv.edu/~newmedia/
>
>We invite applications from educators at high schools, colleges,
>universities, community centers, historical sites and organizations to
>be submitted no later than Friday, April 21, 2000. Applicants should have a
>background in one of the following: 1) teaching US or World history
>courses, interdisciplinary humanities/social sciences courses, or ESL
>courses; 2) developing curricula, programs and/or exhibits for museums,
>historic sites or other historical and cultural organizations.
>Applicants can apply as individuals or a team (two to four persons) from
>their
>institution. Access to and some rudimentary facility with the Internet
>is a minimal requirement for participation; application forms will be
>available on the World Wide Web. However, high-level technological skills
>and
>extensive use of new media in previous teaching are NOT (repeat: not)
>requirements for application. Instructional and interpretive goals will
>drive the use of technology in the institute, not vice versa. Graduate
>credit (3.0) is available through Millersville University.
>
>For more information, contact Tracey Weis.
>
>Contact information:
>Tracey Weis
>MU New Media Classroom Regional Center
>Department of History
>Millersville University
>P.O. Box 1002
>Millersville, PA 17551
>717/871-2025 (phone)
>717/871-2485 (fax)
>Email: Tracey.Weis@millersv.edu
>
>Summer Program website:
>http://www.millersv.edu/~newmedia/
>
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Judith K. Graves
Educational Services
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
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