THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM ANNOUNCES REGIONAL NEW MEDIA CENTERS AND INSTITUTES Return to Crossroads Workshop '98 The in collaboration with the American Studies Association's Crossroads Project, is pleased to announce the launching of regional new media centers as part of the development of the second phase of The New Media Classroom: Building a National Conversation on Narrative, Inquiry and Technology in the U.S. History Survey, a year-long teaching with technology faculty development program for teachers of American history and culture. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the New Media Classroom will extend ASHP's current teaching with technology leadership program to reach a broader cohort of local high school and college faculty across the country. Designed to help humanities faculty more effectively utilize new electronic resources to advance teaching and learning in humanities classrooms, each Center's year-long program begins with a one-week summer institute (the first starting in late June 1998) and continues until the end of the school year, June 1999. The summer institute program will employ a mix of hands-on activities, that include both demonstration and presentation. The intention is to engage faculty in an examination of the issues of narrative and inquiry as they pertain to the construction of a new, more inclusive understanding of American history and culture, new media resources, and classroom learning. Linked to the teaching of the U.S. History (or comparable interdisciplinary humanities) survey course, participating faculty will explore a range of new humanities electronic resources found on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web, and develop strategies for using new media with students. Returning to their schools for the 1998-99 school year, participating faculty will test the strategies developed at the summer institute, participate in a national on-line forum, and take part in follow-up meetings and other activities designed to expand the impact of the program at their home institutions. | |
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