Poster Session Topics

3:00pm - 4:00pm
University Hall Atrium

ARTstor Digital Library: Teaching with Images
Deb Verhoff and Chris Ford, Art Institute of Boston
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences. It also contains a set of tools to view, present and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. During our poster presentation, we will demonstrate the breadth of this collection, including tools and support available for presenting digital images in the classroom, and a faculty member’s use of ARTstor to share images with students for exam review.

Personal Digital Stories by Teachers
sam smiley, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences
Creative Arts and Learning faculty, sam smiley, will be presenting stories of technology from teachers all over the country. These short presentations were created in the Arts and Technology class, where teachers were asked to interview an elder about a technology that was new and cutting edge in that elder’s time. Stories are about 2-3 minutes long and will be playing in an ongoing loop.

Elements of Successful Online Discussions
Jo-Anne Hart, School of Education
This presentation will demonstrate a highly successful online discussion assignment in a fully online course. In a four week span, a student-moderated discussion is assigned with instructions and guidelines provided. Student teams moderated the discussion and, each week, students posted about 100 comments. This poster session will demonstrate the specific elements of the successful online discussion structure.

The Ying and Yang of Access and Universal Design
Bart Pisha and Susan Cusack, School of Education
Within the construct of universal design, accessibility guidelines, culture, and common sense, we will offer a hands-on, multi-modal opportunity to experience and learn about different strategies that promote equity and access to learning. We will be disseminating print and digital resources and offer as many personal insights as you can carry away.

Type in Motion
Geoffry Fried, Art Institute of Boston
A presentation of 10 short animations produced by Typography students as they learn about letterforms, typefaces, type use and type history. Students use Flash to produce these pieces - a new software for most of them - but let conceptual issues drive their projects, rather than technical ones. As a result, students are motivated to acquire the software skills on their own, with just a minimal software introduction, plus short in-class demonstrations and assistance.

Foundation Digital Electives
Susan LeVan and Russ Gossett, Art Institute of Boston
Incoming students at AIB are almost universally digitally literate, but most have not yet explored the wide range of digital art making tools available to them. Freshman Foundation students are now required to select one of three digital electives in their second semester: Digital Collage, Digital Notebook, or Digital Narrative. Each course focuses on making imagery that is conceptually and formally driven, as well as being created with computer software. We will show samples of student work produced in these courses, demonstrate a few of the techniques taught, and encourage attendees to try a little digital art making for themselves.

Processing: Dynamic Diagrams
Nathan Felde and Colin Owens, Art Institute of Boston
In a recent Design Systems class, students were introduced to the Processing programming language: A basic coding system used for working with lines, shapes and visual relationships. They used this software to produce dynamic information diagrams, using visual information to demonstrate a complex system or process.

LULU Comes to the Faculty
Ludcke Library
The Library's popular LULU brings services and resources "just-in-time" for the beginning of the semester - e-reserves, new books, videos, teaching resources, and the chance for new faculty to open a library account and meet library staff.