We’ll be running this PULSE poll through Friday, October 1st. In early October, we’ll be reviewing the results and setting the year’s faculty development schedule based on the results.

This is your opportunity to tell us more about the kinds of technologies, tools, and approaches you’d like to hear more about. We hope everyone will take a moment to suggest an idea!

Faculty Academy Proceedings is a new project by DTLT to showcase presentations from last May’s Faculty Academy. For this first year of the project, all presenters were invited to participate. If the project proves popular and valuable, we’ll be investigating ways to incorporate a Proceedings project more formally into next spring’s Academy.

New articles will appear on the Proceedings site every 3-4 weeks. We invite you to subscribe to the site by RSS or email.

If you’re interested in learning more about ways to incorporate new media into your classroom or courses, feel free to contact Andy.

Anthologize allows WordPress users to easily build electronic books out of existing content on their blogs. Through an easy Web interface, it is possible to choose book components from your WordPress site, craft them into sections or chapters, and export the entire thing into a variety of electronic formats.

Initial production of the tool was completed in one week with assistance and advice from CHNM staffers. In fact, upon arriving at the institute participants didn’t even know what tool they would be building. After an intense two days of orientation and brainstorming, the idea for Anthologize was born. Five days later, by working around the clock, the group had produced the first version of the new plugin.

Patrick’s particular role on the team was “format wrangler,” focusing his efforts on creating a data structure to serve as a bridge between the information stored within WordPress and the various output formats. Currently, PDF, ePub (for mobile devices), and basic RTF formats are available, but more will become available in the future. Since launching, the team has continued development, launching an update within two weeks of completing the Institute. The plugin has been downloaded nearly 3000 times so far.

You can read more about the project by visiting the Anthologize Zotero group, where team members have been collecting articles, videos, and other resources about the new tool. Patrick will also be writing about possible uses for teaching and learning at Anthologize @ UMW. And, of course, those thoughts will also be published in PDF and ePub formats.

Anthologize has also been installed on UMW Blogs, where any user can activate it and try it out.

Attendees will determine the type and scope of the tool they will build as part of the institute, and will receive a short training course on the principles of open source development. The week-long institute will be followed by a year of remote engag

ement and development among the participants as they focus their efforts on programming, development, and building a sustainable open source community around supporting and improving the tool.

NMC Webinar’s are free events; you can find out more about attending by visiting the event page at http://www.nmc.org/online-seminars.

Faculty who are using UMW Blogs for courses this semester may wish to encourage students to stop by a session. It’s a great chance to get a little extra help with the system or learn more about pushing the boundaries of the publishing platform.

While we know everyone is busy winding up spring classes, it’s also a great opportunity to get a jumpstart on planning for fall courses. Stop by for an hour or two and brainstorm with DTLT about how you might integrate UMW Blogs into a class next semester.

Remaining Workshop Dates and Locations

• 4/14 from 2:00 to 4:00 in North 226 (Stafford)
• 4/16 from 2:00 to 4:00 in duPont 310 (Fredericksburg)
• 4/30 from 2:00 to 4:00 in duPont 310
• 5/5 from 2:00 to 4:00 in North 226

The keynote address will be at 11:00 on Wednesday, May 12. You can find more information about Faculty Academy, including the registration form and call for proposals at http://blog10.facultyacademy.org.

As the spring semester wraps up, we know everyone is busy, but please take a moment to register and submit a proposal to share the work you’ve been doing with teaching and learning technologies. It is quick and painless!

Red Room, Fredericksburg Campus, 12:00 to 12:50, April 5

This brown-bag lunch will showcase a smorgasbord of information about free, cool technology tools that you can use to get the job of being a student or professor done. The staff of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer a rapid-fire overview of tools that help you with presentations, research, writing, web publishing, sharing, mashing-up, creating, and organizing. It is amazing what you can do for FREE!

The 2010 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the fifteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative expression, especially in higher education. New media, for this event, is interpreted broadly as anything from creative uses of digital media and new forms of communication to alternative publishing methods and media-rich tools. The Symposium seeks to explore new media in the context of a current social phenomenon and not simply as a means of content delivery.

Keynote speakers, Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling and Constance Steinkuehler of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will speak about educational gaming and using digital media to tell compelling stories. The entire program of the event is available online. Presentations will take place in NMC their private virtual world space, the Hakone Project.

As members of NMC, the University of Mary Washington has access to a number of free registrations for this event. If you would like to attend, please contact DTLT soon!