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Contents:
CER Equipment Reservation and Checkout
Adobe Connect [Web Conferencing]
ARTstor [Image Database]
DID@JH (MDID) [Image Database]Freely Available Images and Multimedia for Educational Use
In Class Voting Technology [Clickers]
Instructional Technology Facilities @ Homewood
Interactive Map Tool
JShare [File Sharing and Personal Websites]
Mediasite [Presentation Capture and Publishing]
Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom [Copyright Policies]
Podcasting
Research Services Librarians
Resources for New Faculty
Tablet PC Loaner Program
Timeline Creator
Turnitin [Plagiarism Prevention Service]
CER Equipment Reservation and Checkout
The CER maintains a small multimedia lab with audio, video, and scanning workstations. Wealso provide audio, video, and computer equipment for checkout. This equipment is available for KSAS/WSE faculty for instruction related projects. To ensure availability, support, and training, the lab and equipment must be reserved before use. The CER maintains a small multimedia lab with audio, video, and scanning workstations. We also provide audio, video, and computer equipment for checkout. This equipment is available for KSAS/WSE faculty for instruction related projects. To ensure availability, support, and training, the lab and equipment must be reserved before use.
Adobe Connect [Web Conferencing]
Adobe Connectis a collaboration tool that includes video conferencing, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and presentations. You can use your desktop to host live, synchronous interactions with small or large groups.
Using Adobe Connect, you and other meeting attendees can join a live, on-line meeting from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a browser, Flash Player plug-in, and an Internet connection. A meeting can have as few as two or as many as several hundred attendees.
ARTstor [Image Database]
Johns Hopkins University is a charter subscriber of ARTstor, founded by the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. ARTstor currently contains over 300,000 curated images and associated data. It is a large and expanding resource of digital images and data for teaching and research in art history, as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines. The ARTstor website has regular updates on new collections being added. Please contact Don Juedes (djuedes@jhu.edu) if you have questions about using ARTstor.
DID@JH (MDID) [Image Database]
The Madison Digital Image Database (MDID),a software package freely available from the James Madison University, allows instructors to search, retrieve, organize and teach with digital images and image data. The MDID is comprised of an online content search and lecture creation tool for instructors, an online study tool for students, and an in-class presentation application for instructors. Digital images and associated catalog information are stored in the MDID on a web server. Using the faculty web interface, instructors can generate and package slideshows from any Internet connected computer. Faculty can then present their lectures using the MDID from any Internet connected computer instead of relying on traditional slides. Faculty can also make lectures available to students online. A quizzing function allows students to use the tool in preparation for exams.
The version of MDID at JHU is called DID@JH (Digital Image Database @ Johns Hopkins) and is maintained by the History of Art Department Visual Resource Collection. Please contact Ann Woodward (adw@jhu.edu) to learn how to access images or store a personal collection of images in the DID@JH.
In Class Voting Technology [Clickers]
In use by many higher education institutions, in-class voting technology enables faculty to poll large numbers of students on a variety of topics: from their understanding of the previous day’s readings to their understanding of lecture material presented in class. Poll results, which appear via a histogram in a matter of seconds, indicate whether or not students grasp the material.
The Homewood campus has standardized on the Classroom Performance System (CPS) from eInstruction. CPS provides faculty a host of tools to enliven the classroom quickly and easily. It allows faculty to:
- take attendance
- give and grade objective pop quizzes
- stimulate class discussion with subjective and objective questions using either ad hoc or previously developed questions
- administer and grade immediately formal, multi-version, paper-based tests
- manage, record and run reports on all aspects of students' grades.
Faculty who are interested in learning more about the in-class voting system should contact Brian Cole (bcole@jhu.edu, 410-516-5418).]
Instructional Technology Facilities @ Homewood
The Instructional Technology Facilities group provides a large variety of technology-enhanced classrooms and computer classrooms. Includes information on Hodson Hall and a search of classrooms based on technology needs. AV services are also available for additional equipment delivery.
Interactive Map Tool
The Johns Hopkins Center for Educational Resources initially developed this web-based multimedia authoring/mapping tool to support “digital field assignments” in undergraduate courses.
The Interactive Map Tool is loosely based on a map metaphor, but isn’t bound to just creating maps. It allows the user to create a hierarchical structure of informational pages that can be nested. Nested pages can include anything from plain images to video and audio files, all with accompanying description text. The sites created in the Interactive Map Tool allow students to understand the connections between concepts and spatial context in a unique and effective way.
JShare [File Sharing, Personal Website]
JShare is a web-based utility intended to provide students, faculty, and staff with a personal, easy-to-use interface to upload, download, and share files to both users inside and outside of the Institution.
Some features of JShare include, but are not limited to:
- 1 gigabyte of file storage space for all Faculty Members
- 500 megabytes of file storage space for Students and Staff
- Secure file access from anywhere at any time
- Advanced collaboration and document management
- File sharing ability both inside and outside the Institution
- Ability to email files as links to reduce the load on email systems
- Ability to create and maintain personal web sites
Mediasite[Presentation Capture and Publishing]
Enterprise Networking acquired a Mediasite Server and portable recorder in June 2006. The Mediasite product captures audio, video, and slides in an easy to publish streaming media format, both live and on-demand. The content can be distributed on the server or published to a CD. The media is presented in a player that works across browser types and requires no plug-ins.
An example can be found at: http://mediasite.jhu.edu/
Enterprising Networking supports the server. For more information and to reserve the equipment please contact Steve Frantz at srf@jhu.edu.
Podcasting
Podcasting is one of the new tools faculty are using in teaching. A podcast is a broadcast of multimedia information (usually audio) over the Internet. Lectures and presentations can be podcast. Anyone with a computer and media playing software can subscribe and listen to a podcast. The JHU Podcasting website has all the information needed to get started with podcasting.
Research Services Librarians (RSLs)
RSLs at Eisenhower Library serve specific academic departments and programs. For the departments they serve, they are responsible for collecting library materials, providing instruction in the use of library materials, and serving as liaisons between MSEL and their departments. Librarians are also available for research consultations. You may contact the librarian responsible for your subject area directly or call the Information Desk at (410) 516-8335.
Resources for New Faculty
Quick links to help new faculty around the Johns Hopkins universe of information. (PDF)
Tablet PC Loaner Program
The CER will loan Tablet PCs to faculty members for instructional use. The loans will run for single academic semesters. The program aim is to explore standard uses of tablets such as enhanced classroom presentations and paper grading with digital ink, as well as to provide a platform for faculty instructional innovation.
Timeline Creator
The Timeline Creator tool allows instructors, students and researchers without multimedia development skills to develop an interactive timeline for teaching or presentation purposes.
Turnitin [Plagiarism Prevention Service]
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering have recently purchased school-wide subscriptions to the Turnitin.com Plagiarism Prevention Service. This service provides an easy to use method for instructors to check the content of papers for unoriginal material. The CER offers training and information about this service.