Bellow is information for UMassOnline's upcoming Presentation entitled SmartHistory. The information bellow is copied from the main website. If you are interested in attending, go to the main site and register.
Dr. Beth Harris is Director of Digital Learning at a NYC museum. Before that, she was assistant professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she taught both online and in the classroom. She also directed FIT's large distance learning program. She is a Victorian Studies specialist and edited and contributed to Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (2005). She has presented papers on instructional technology at conferences across the country (including the College Art Association, New Media Consortium, Educause, Merlot, etc.). Dr. Harris has authored essays on teaching with image technology including “The Slide Library: A Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital Future,” Teaching Art History with Technology: Case Studies (2008). Her work has been cited twice in the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report and together with Steven Zucker, she organized two conferences on using technology to teach with images. She received her Master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and her Doctorate in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Presentation Title: Smarthistory
Join us for a special event featuring Beth Harris and Steven Zucker as they showcase Smarthistory, a widely used, webby-award-winning, creative-commons licensed website that supports the introductory art history survey course taught at most American colleges and universities. It is also widely used by informal learners. Smarthistory uses an open-source content management system for its back end, and has an extendable chronological framework that easily and inexpensively accommodates many different types of content -- both reasons that Smarthistory can function as a model for other Open Educational Resources (OERs). They believe that it is critical to educate teachers about the benefits of open content and creative commons licensing, and to encourage them to post their teaching materials -- (content, learning activities, and assessment) -- outside of the closed box of the learning management system on their own sites, or in a repository like Smarthistory that provides a framework for aggregating disparate content in a meaningful way. By making contributions voluntary, and focusing on conversation, informality, and even emotion and opinion, Smarthistory begins to reinvent the textbook for the twenty-first century.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Beth Harris is Director of Digital Learning at a NYC museum. Before that, she was assistant professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she taught both online and in the classroom. She also directed FIT's large distance learning program. She is a Victorian Studies specialist and edited and contributed to Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (2005). She has presented papers on instructional technology at conferences across the country (including the College Art Association, New Media Consortium, Educause, Merlot, etc.). Dr. Harris has authored essays on teaching with image technology including “The Slide Library: A Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital Future,” Teaching Art History with Technology: Case Studies (2008). Her work has been cited twice in the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report and together with Steven Zucker, she organized two conferences on using technology to teach with images. She received her Master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and her Doctorate in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.Dr. Steven Zucker is a specialist in 20th-century art and theory and is chair of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute. Previously, he was dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY as well as chair of their art history department. He has also taught at The School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and at The Museum of Modern Art. Dr. Zucker is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. With Dr. Beth Harris, he created the FIT digital image library and organized two national conferences “Small Tools/Big Ideas: a conference on the discipline-specific technologies reshaping the practice of teaching art and art history,” and “Beyond the Slide Library: Digital Media in the Art and Art History Classroom.” Also with Dr. Harris, he wrote “The Image Library as Learning Environment” for CAA News and “The Slide Library: A Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital Future,” Teaching Art History with Technology: Case Studies (2008). He has published on Abstract Expressionism including his essay “Confrontations with Radical Evil: The Ambiguity of Myth and the Inadequacy of Representation,” in Art History. Dr. Zucker received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Who should attend?
- Faculty and staff within departments of Art, Art History, Design and History
- Faculty using web-based resources for in-personal and online courses
- Librarians
- Those interested in Open Access, Open Courseware, Open Educational Resources, Open Textbooks and Openness
- Instructional Designers and Course Development Teams
Event Date, Time and Location
Date: October 1, 2010
Time: 9:00 am Registration, 9:30 am Speaker Session Begins
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