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"Grand Opening" of our new

Remote Collaboration Classrooms

funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Kenyon College and Denison University

February 8, 1999


Where:

On the Denison campus: Learning Resources Center room 115
On the Kenyon campus: Ascension Hall room 25

Detailed description of the facilities and their use policies is available online.

Today's Goals: to explore the possibilities of remote collaboration using modern videoconferencing systems and to understand how our colleagues have used such technology in a liberal arts setting



Program

3:30 - 4:00 PM Live and informal videoconference sessions between

Kenyon College and Hamilton College
Denison University and Colgate University

4:00 Hangup from the two sessions and reconnect in a four-way videoconference session

4:00 - 4:10 Brief introduction of the facilities, the Mellon Program through which they were funded, and this afternoon's session

4:10 - 5:00 Introduction of videoconferencing in the classroom

David Smallen, Director of Information Technology Services, Hamilton
Karen Leach, Chief Information Officer, Colgate
5:00 - 5:10 Short break

5:10 - 6:00 Uses of remote collaboration in the liberal arts - short presentations followed by open discussion



Colgate faculty:
Ross Ferlito (pictured) - Professor of Romance Languages
Dierk Hoffmann - Professor of German

Hamilton faculty:
Mary Beth Barth; Director of the Language Learning Center and Critical Languages Program
Gary Wyckoff: Professor of Government



These sessions were videotaped to support an informal follow-up session later this semester



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