Please look at SmallToolsBigIdeas for my notes on the conference as a whole.
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powerpoint slides (pdf)Abstract
Scholar's Box
The Scholar's Box is a tool being developed at UC Berkeley that enables users to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. It is designed to connect domains that are of particular importance to educational users: digital libraries, educational technology, social software tool, desktop content authoring. The fundamental conviction behind the Scholar's Box is that teachers, artists, and researchers -- as part of their creative process -- should have easy-to-use tools that let them remix any digital content from any source with any software service. This talk will demonstrate how the Scholar's Box can be used to support the teaching of art and art history by allowing scholars to create annotated and reusable sets of images drawn from diverse sources. The sources will range from brand name institutional repositories to personal image services such Flickr to the Web at large.
Themes to address
A request from the moderator: "It would be great if each of you could be prepared to speak to why one might separate the repositories from the presentation tools and what the implications of this arrangement are for teaching with images."
Preliminary answers:
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to avail oneself of the best tools available for the purpose (which may or may not be the ones natively tied to the repository)
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there are many things a teacher might want to do that are not easily anticipated by designers of repositories; separating out the tools from the repositories opens up the possibilities for such use.
