Each semester, the CUNY Open Sytems Center offers a series of computing workshops for CUNY faculty and instructional staff. Programs in the series were designed and are being presented by CUNY faculty members for their colleagues. Open Systems Center Faculty Fellows for 1995-96 are Michael FitzGerald (Medgar Evers College, Humanities), Michael Kress (College of Staten Island, Computer Science), Anthony Picciano (Hunter College, Curriculum and Teaching), and Dean Savage (Queens College, Sociology).
Workshops offered in Fall 1995 at the Open Systems Center (555 W. 57th St.) are listed below. To inquire about availability of these classes, please call Marta-Lourdes Llano, CUNY/CIS Office of Education and Training, 212-541-0345 or e-mail to REGBH@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.
In addition to these workshops, the Open Systems Center is conducting local workshops for CUNY faculty on the use of the World Wide Web at colleges that have suitably connected computer labs. This campus outreach program is a new feature of the CUNY/CIS Computing Workshop Series. Arrangements for locally based sessions of the WWW workshop are being made in consultation with the Campus Technology Planning Committee at each of the CUNY colleges.
Using the Internet as an Instructional Resource: WWW
This half-day workshop will focus on the use of the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web, for instructional and research purposes. The class will explore the use of basic functions and search tools to identify and access appropriate Web sites; accessing online instructional courseware and research libraries, archives, and other information repositories. Legal classroom use of images and text taken from the Internet will be discussed.
Using the World Wide Web to Augment Instruction:
Creating a Course Home Page
A one-day workshop on Hypertext markup Language (HTML) that uses shareware editing tools to create World Wide Web documents for instructional purposes. The morning session will examine HTML authoring fundamentals (document layout, paragraphs, headings, lists, lines, graphics, etc.). The afternoon session will investigate the use of hypertext links within documents and to other homepages on the Web. The workshop will include a brief tour of Web resources and an introduction to CUNY Web resources. The workshop will emphasize hands-on use of an HTML editor to create a simple Web homepage for instructional purposes. Participants will be expected to attend for the entire day.
Developing Multimedia Software for Instructional Use
(Authorware Professional)
An introduction to a sophisticated authoring tool that does not require scripting or programming. Three workshops will be offered and each workshop in the numbered series is a prerequisite for the one that follows.
Workshop I will cover conceptual orientations; the icon palette and the flowline; file setup; presentation and display windows; the graphics toolbox; inserting text and graphics; sound and video icons. Assignment: create a simple Authorware application using text, graphics, and sound.
Workshop II will teach how to create simple animations; basic interactions and responses: pushbuttons, clickable objects, movable objects, pull-down menus, and texts responses; judging the response; perpetual responses. Assignment: expand your Authorware application from Workshop I to include an animation and several simple user interactions.
Workshop III will cover models and libraries; system variables; system functions and packaging applications. Assignment: create a run-time version of your Authorware application for students.
Seminar in Advanced Instructional Technololgy:
Multimedia Projects Using Web Sources
An independent consultation with CUNY colleagues who are experienced multimedia and WWW authors to assist faculty in incorporating digital and/or Web resources into instructional multimedia projects.
Digital Video: Intro and Advanced Workshops
Two workshops will be offered: An introduction to the concepts and techniques of digital video used in the preparation of multimedia presentations; and an advanced workshop in digital video editing.
Introduction to Digital Video I will start with an introduction to the basic concepts of analog and digital video editing. Fundamental technical issues of digital video such as compression methods, file formats, storage requirements and video capture cards will be discussed during the hands-on segment. Participants will use Adobe Premiere to practice basic editing techniques and transitions.
Advanced Digital Video Editing will give the student further experience with video editing on the computer desktop. This hands-on workshop will teach advanced editing transition techniques including masking and 3-D framing. New styles and techniques such as virtual clips, video trimming, synchronization, etc. will be explored. Students will work on putting together a small presentation.
Basic Concepts of Multimedia Design
The objective of this seminar is to provide a forum wherein participants can share and explore issues involving the basic concepts of multimedia technology as used in college teaching and learning. The workshop leader will make presentations of multimedia programs that he has designed and developed, and that are being used in college classrooms. Specific issues such as planning a project, funding, hardware, software, training, and curriculum goals and objectives will be discussed.
Preparing the Electronic Lecture: Introduction to the
Astound Presentation Software Package
The objective of this workshop is to introduce the participants to the Astound presentation software package. Astound software allows users to create traditional (text and bullets) presentations as well as animated and multimedia presentations. Self-paced, hands-on activities will be utilized to allow participants to explore features of the software on both the Macinstosh and the DOS/Windows platform.
Survival in a Unix Environment
This workshop is designed to assist faculty researchers who are interested in making a transition from mainframe environment to the Unix platform. The workshop will address basic elementary concepts such as using the vi editor, file systems, running background jobs, and basic operating sytem administration. At the workshop, faculty who are planning to migrate research projects from the CUNY mainframe to a Unix platform will have the opportunity to set up a consultation with CUNY/CIS staff about the process and resources that might be available to assist.
Unix Script Programming
This workshop will present basics of Script programming for integrating operating system interaction. A number of shells will be discussed including BornShell, C Shell and Korn Shell.