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Collaborating With Documents and Sharing Files . . . Digitally

Collaboration Tools: Blackboard, Google Docs, BoxOn Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 3:30-4:30 pm in JBWS 180, we’ll address digital approaches to collaborating on files and documents.  We’ll explore three cases of technologies to get at questions of what and how we share, as well as how we can do virtual collaboration better. Our three technologies will be:

  • Blackboard courses for committee work and other administrative needs (Brenda Adrian)
  • Google Docs for collaboration in the Instructional Technology department and the General Education Renewal Committee (Rebecca Frost Davis)
  • Box for sharing files and collaborative meeting notes (Joana Trimble)

By talking through these case studies, we will consider how we need to share documents, files, and folders and what features would make that sharing easier.

Please come prepared to share the cases where you collaborate on documents or share files and your most desired feature for that sharing.  If you have other tools you use, we’d love to hear about those, too.

Snacks will be provided.

Rebecca Frost Davis Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology Rebecca Frost Davis joined St. Edward’s in July 2013 as Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology, where she provides leadership in the development of institutional vision with respect to the use of technology in pursuit of the university’s educational mission and collaborates with offices across campus to create and execute strategies to realize that vision. Instructional Technology helps faculty transform and adapt new digital methods in teaching and research to advance the essential learning outcomes of liberal education. Previously, Dr. Davis served as program officer for the humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), where she also served as associate director of programs. Prior to her tenure at NITLE, she was the assistant director for instructional technology at the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center and an assistant professor of classical studies at Rhodes College, Denison University, and Sewanee: The University of the South. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in classical studies and Russian from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Davis is also a fellow with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). As a NITLE Fellow, Dr. Davis will develop a literature review relevant to intercampus teaching, which will cover contextual issues such as team-teaching, teaching through videoconferencing, and collaboration; a survey of intercampus teaching at NITLE member institutions; and several case studies of intercampus teaching at liberal arts colleges, including interviews with faculty, students, support staff, and administrators. This work will be summarized in a final report or white paper to be published by NITLE. At Rebecca Frost Davis: Liberal Education in a Networked World, (http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/) Dr. Davis blogs about the changes wrought by new digital methods on scholarship, networking, and communication and how they are impacting the classroom. In her research, she explores the motivations and mechanisms for creating, integrating, and sustaining digital humanities within and across the undergraduate curriculum.
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