Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants
May 1, 2008
Skidmore College
Description: Appropriate place of technology in academic life and learning how "digital immigrants" have successfully used technology to enhance teaching or scholarship.
Nomination deadline: Friday, March 21, 2008

Web-Mapping
Cornell College
May 2, 2008
Description: Learning easy-to-use, intuitive web-mapping and virtual globe applications.
Nomination deadline: Friday, March 21, 2008

Social Software for Education: Collaborative Learning and Research Practices
Skidmore College
May 2, 2008
Description: Basic introduction to social software tools and the open, collaborative knowledge-sharing that they enable.
Nomination deadline: Friday, March 21, 2008

Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning
Allegheny College
May 16, 2008
Description: Learn how to find digital images in Flickr and other collections. Consider copyright issues associated with reusing such images.
Nomination deadline: Friday, April 4, 2008

Digital Video Production: Final Cut
Grinnell College
May 20 - 22, 2008
Description: Introduction to Final Cut as a tool for logging and capture, basic editing, titling, and compression for web delivery or output back to tape. Pedagogical uses of video will be stressed.
Nomination deadline: Friday, April 11, 2008

Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus.
Occidental College
May 20, 2008
Description: Introduction to a wide range of recently developed applications that have potential for classroom use.
Nomination deadline: Friday, April 11, 2008.

Podcasting for the Liberal Arts Classroom.
Occidental College
Date: May 21, 2008
Description: Introduction to podcasting from both technological and pedagogical perspectives.
Nomination deadline: Friday, April 11, 2008.

Sunoikisis Seminar: Greek Lyric Poetry
Reed College
June 9 - 12, 2008
Description: A seminar for Classics faculty who are interested in planning an inter-institutional collaborative course in Greek and participating in an intensive professional development and networking opportunity.
Nomination deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008

Al-Musharaka Summer Seminar: Border Crossings
Denison University
June 10 - 13, 2008
Description: A seminar for those interested in engaging in technology-enabled, interdisciplinary and inter-campus collaborative teaching and community-building focused on the study of Islam, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Nomination deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008

Sunoikisis Seminars, Virtual Collaboration Plenary Workshop
Reed College
June 12 - 13, 2008
Description: A workshop for Sunoikisis Seminar participants (Greek or Latin) who will have students enrolled in the Sunoikisis fall courses; their academic support partners from IT or the library; and other groups of faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in developing inter-campus collaborations or projects.
Nomination deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008

Assessing Information Literacy and Fluency in the Context of the Liberal Arts Campus
Chicago
June 16 - 17, 2008
Description: Learn about tools that colleges and universities can use to assess their students’ information literacy and fluency and develop programs that effectively address students’ needs and capabilities.
Nomination deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008

Creativity across the Curriculum: The Role of Technology
Willamette University
October 3 - 5, 2008
Description: New approaches to creative expression that enable and encourage the crossing of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Participants will consider how best to take advantage of new possibilities fostered by digital technology and how best to meet the challenges they present.
Registration opens on March 3, 2008

Expeditions in Scientific Visualization
Bates College
October 16 - 18, 2008
Description: For faculty members in the sciences and their academic support partners interested in using visualization to foster student comprehension of and participation in scientifically rich curricula and in furthering their own understanding of visualization as a component of pedagogy and communication in the sciences.
Registration opens on March 3, 2008

Real-Time Collaboration on the Liberal Arts Campus
Rhodes College
October 19 - 21, 2008
Description: Exploring how interactive videoconferencing to social presence tools to virtual worlds such as Second Life can be used to expand the boundaries of the physical classroom and shape the curriculum.
Registration opens on March 3, 2008

Service Learning and Social Justice Programs: The Role of Technology
Swarthmore College
October 24 - 26, 2008
Description: For faculty members, program administrators, instructional technologists, and other campus professionals who are interested in incorporating service learning and issues of social justice into their curricular and extracurricular programs. Participants will explore how digital technologies from social software to data analysis tools are increasingly being used to support service learning and advance an institutional commitment to issues of social justice, social equality, and the digital divide.
Registration opens on March 3, 2008

Internationalizing the Curriculum: the Role of Technology
Whittier College
November 7 - 9, 2008
Description: For faculty, program administrators, instructional technologists, and librarians who are engaged in developing or implementing curricular or extracurricular programs that provide students with an international perspective on learning.
Registration opens on March 3, 2008