AGENDA CROSSING URBAN BORDERS The New Media Classroom Borough of Manhattan CC June 25 - 29, 2000

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8:30 AM:  Optional Windows Workshop

9 AM:   Introductions and Welcome

9:45 AM:      BlackBoard Discussion Forum: Dreams, Nightmares and Visions

• Go to Blackboard <http://198.83.126.109:8080/>  
• Blackboard 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/>  

2 PM:  Student Inquiry and the Electronic Archive

• Group A: Picturing New York
• Group B: West Nile Virus
• Group C: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

4:30 PM: BlackBoard Discussion Forum – What makes a good activity?

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

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TUESDAY, JUNE 26

 9 AM:  Surveying Electronic Resources  

• Go to Web-site and CD Survey

11:30 PM:  Examining Brooklyn Underground Railroad (Anti-Slavery) Archaeology Web Site (Interactive Dig)

• Go to http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/lott/index2.html 

12:30 PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1:30  PM:  Tele-Conference on the Brooklyn Interactive Dig

3 PM:  Crossing Borders:  Building Activities on the Brooklyn Interactive Dig with colleagues from the Millersville, PA New Media Classroom.

4:30  PM:  Optional Workshop:  Search engines and directories

6 PM:  Dinner a t a TriBeca Restaurant

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9 AM:  New Stories, New Voices: Online Syllabi and Student Authored Projects

• Go to Hands On Activities

11 AM:  PowerPoint Workshop

12:30  PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1:30  PM:  Writing Across the Curriculum:  The Collaborative Classroom in Old and New Media  (Jane Paznik-Bondarin/ BMCC)

• Go to Hands-on Activity

3:30 PM:  Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl:  Creating Interactive Classroom Exercises Across Media - Print, Video and Digital

• Go to Blackboard <http://198.83.126.109:8080/>  

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9 AM:  Digital Clourse Builders: BlackBoard and Front Page

11:30 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)

12:30  PM:  Lunch (Third Floor Faculty Dining Room)

1:30  PM:  Planning Time  

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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 Blackboard <http://198.83.126.109:8080/>  

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