Collaborative: Best of the Non-West

Resources Requested

Stipend 1 AY: 1,050.00; Alice Beckwith will be the overall supervisor of the project, please see project description for inclusion of Ann Norton. We would like to actually have the stipends be 1050 each so that we can have a total of four faculty on this project, in the Spring semester.

Stipend 1 Summer: 400.00; Alice Beckwith will train Joan Branham and Deborah Johnson in the use of Angel Message Boards and Chat room facilities for the NonWestern Presentations as well as in the use of Power Point

Stipend 2 AY: 1,050.00; Robert Trudeau will be the technology teacher for Alice Beckwith, Jean Sorabella and Ann Norton, please see project description for inclusion of Ann Norton.

Stipend 2 Summer: 400.00; We would like to continue to have Robert Trudeau as our advisor and so would adjust the summer stipend to be distributed among four faculty at an amount of $300. each

Stipend 3 AY: 1,050.00; Jean Sorabella is one of the team members involved the the Non-Western Presentations

Stipend 3 Summer: 400.00;  Joan Branham will be a faculty member involved in the Non-Western Presentations in the Fall of 2003

Stipend 4 AY: 1,050.00; Jean Sorabella is one of the team members involved the the Non-Western Presentations ElementK: $70.00; We want to know PowerPoint better so that we can instruct our students in using it for Posters and in the use of the digital projector.Total: $5,470.00

Project Info

Equipment use in Future: We will use this projector in the Art & Art History classes, as well as for student presentations. We will also use it in training ourselves and our students in the use of Power Point. We would also like to use it in presentations at off campus locations such as the Providence Public Library, as a means of reaching out to our Providence neighbors.

Start Date: We have started the project, but with the projector and the funding we would begin a more full scale development on 11/11/02

End Date: The first phase will be completed at the end of the Spring semester of 2003, the second phase will begin in the summer of 2003, and the final phase will occur at the end of the Fall semester of 2003.

Deadlines: Initiate use of projector and Angel bulletin boards and chat room features in ARH 106 11/11/02, complete training of Drs. Beckwith, Sorabella and Norton and student use of Angel bulletin boards and chat rooms05/02/03, Complete training of Drs. Branham and Johnson and implement use of Angel bulletin boards and chat rooms in ARH 106 09/02/03, Presentations of the best Non-Western student collaborations for the College and at the Providence Public Library after this date12/05/03.

Deliverables

Angel Course: See the use described above for the ARH 106 course.

Multimedia CD: Use of Power Point in student and teacher presentations.

Change in Practice: While the projection of digital images is not yet up to the precision one can achieve with 35mm slides, it is getting there and we want to understand the uses of digital projection now.

Conference Presentation: We would present this project at the meetings of the College Art Association of America, our professional organization in one of their media in the classroom secessions.

Primary ObjectiveWe are trying to introduce our students in the Survey of the History of Art (120 in the Fall 02 classes)to the cultures of the Non-Western world. Last year we began testing them in a new way. They do team presentations about one culture where they introduce a feature of the culture via two art works, for instance what is the attitude of this culture towards the natural environment, they then pose this question to their colleagues, who are representing another culture. The exercise involves learning via research, rehearsal and thinking on your feet, because they do not know what questions other groups will ask. Since questions are asked, discussion ensues and all of the students learn more deeply about other cultures. The success of this exercise was splendid last semester.We have developed a detailed handout describing the exercise and a scoring method to grade the exercise, but we want to allow the students more ways of getting in contact and more options for presenting their visual aids, and we would like these projects to have a further life beyond the one time presentation in the classroom. We would like to have the best presentations in the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery so that we could share them with the College Community, and we hope to also have a forum at the Providence Public Library.

Project Details

We would like to have the students do their presentations for the College in the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery and for the Providence Community in the Providence Public Library.

Assessment

We have already designed a scoring sheet to grade the student presentations. We would invite the Providence College Community to the "Best of the NonWest Presentations" in the Hunt Cavanagh Gallery and the Providence Community to the presentations at the Public Library.