Small Tools - big ideas:
Integrating Technologies for teaching art and art history

8:30-9:00      Breakfast

9:00-9:30      Welcome
Joyce Brown, President, Fashion Institute of Technology
David Porush, Executive Director, SUNY Learning Environments

Introductory Remarks:
Image Library as Learning Environment

Beth Harris, Director of Distance Learning, FIT
Steven Zucker, Chair, History of Art Department, FIT

9:30-10:30    Keynote Address
Teaching with Technology: Why Bother?

Rachel Smith, Director of Development and Programs, New Media Consortium

10:45-12:15   BIG IDEAS                        
Presenters will discuss leading models that make digital content accessible and the potential for collaboration

                   Moderator:
Norman L. Gross, Assistant Vice-President, Software Services & Information Access, FIT

Panel:
Barbara Taranto, Director, Digital Library Program, New York Public Library (NYPL Digital Library Gallery)

Richard Baraniuk, Director, Connexions Project, Rice University (Connexions)

Henry Pisciotta, Arts and Architecture Librarian, Pennsylvania State University and member of the Advisory Board of LionShare

Carl Jones, Senior Systems Analyst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (DSpace)

Ben Brophy, User Interface Designer, Academic Media Production Services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (DSpace)

12:30-1:30    LUNCH

1:45-3:15      SMALL TOOLS
presenters will discuss tools that can be used in conjunction with digital repositories and that can help foster an enriched, and in some cases, collaborative learning environment

                   Moderator:
Michael Feldstein, Assistant Director, Blended Learning, SUNY Learning Environments

                   Michelle Hall, Educational Technologist, Center for New Media Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University (Image Annotation Tool)

David Kahle, Director of Academic Technology, Tufts University (VUE)

John Weber, Dayton Director, the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Pachyderm)

Raymond Yee, Technology Architect, Interactive University, UC Berkeley (Scholar's Box)                                

3:30-5:00       Uses Big & SMALL: Roundtable Discussion
                        Moderator:
                        Carey Hatch, Assistant Provost for Library and Information    
                   Services, SUNY

Panel:
Eric Feinblatt, Coordinator, Center for Excellence in Teaching, FIT

Andreas Knab, Computer Systems Engineer, James Madison University (Madison Digital Image Database)

                       Janet Temos, Director, Educational Technologies Center, Princeton University (Almagest)

                        Christina Updike, Visual Resources Specialist, James Madison University (Madison Digital Image Database)

                        N.J. Wolfe, Director, Gladys Marcus Library, FIT (FIT Digital Image Library)

                        William Ying, Chief Technology Officer, ARTstor

5:00-6:30      RECEPTION and Sponsor Demonstrations

Schedule subject to change