Digital Visual Literacy (DVL) is a set of vital interdisciplinary skills that enable students to function in an increasingly digital and visual workplace. Twelve instructional modules with supporting materials were developed and tested during Maricopa’s National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education Grant. Participants will learn more about this exciting new literacy, the completed and freely-available materials, and recent feedback from faculty who have successfully embedded this modular instruction into different courses. Dr. Jeremy Rowe, Director of Strategic Initiatives for ASU’s Decision Theater (an interactive 3D immersive environment), will speak on The Digital Visual Leading Edge: From the Present to the Future. This Dialogue Day will benefit faculty and administrators infusing their curriculum with fresh 21st century skills.
About the speakers...
Jeremy Rowe is Director of Research, Strategic Planning and Policy for Information Technology at ASU, Associate Director of the Institute for Computer, Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE), co-director of the Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling (PRISM), and is Director of Strategic Initiatives for ASU’s Decision Theater http://dt.asu.edu/. His linkage between computer science, informatics researchers and ASU Information Technology provides a broad base of science, public policy and educational outreach for digital visual leading-edge projects. He is on the Advisory Board for the Cornell University Library/Museum of Science in Boston "Printable Digital Machine" project. He has been a CoPI on funded proposals including KDI: "3D Knowledge: Acquisition, Representation, and Analysis in a Distributed Environment" (NSF $2.1M), "Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West" (NEH $300K), "Observations and Modeling of Orographic Cumulus Development using Digital Imaging and Data Cataloguing" (NSF $320K) and Decision Center for a Desert City (NSF $6.9M). He serves on several state-level committees including the Chief Information Advisory Council, the Electronic Records Life Cycle subgroup of the Arizona Digital Government Working Group, and Arizona Board of Regents Arizona Regents University/Information Technology subcommittee. He is widely published and has been actively involved in strategic planning and development of IT policy. He also researches and writes about historic photography, specializing in Arizona and the Southwest. He is owner of Jeremy Rowe Vintage Photography (http://vintagephoto.com), has curated a number of major museum and gallery exhibitions, and has been a Scholar for the Arizona Humanities Council. He has an EdD in Educational Policy and Administration with an emphasis on Higher Education, a M. A. in Educational Technology/Audiovisual Education, and a B. S. Psychology from Arizona State University.
Co-Principal Investigators of the DVL NSF Grant
Andrea Buehman is the Director of Curriculum and Transfer Articulation for the Maricopa Community Colleges where she leads and directs the district-wide curriculum process and university transfer articulation agendas. From 1997 to 2007, she held positions as an academic administrator at Mesa Community College, the largest of the Maricopa colleges. As Dean of Instruction-Institutional Analysis and Planning, she provided college leadership for strategic and operational planning, institutional research, student outcomes assessment, program evaluation, grants development, and college accreditation activities.
From 1990-1996 she was a Senior Research Analyst at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University where she worked on large-scale educational evaluation projects. Andrea served as Coordinator of Curriculum Development at the Kyrene School District and provided curriculum consultation to numerous Arizona public schools. She has published and presented nationally on a wide range of educational topics and has been recognized for her work in assessment of student learning outcomes in higher education. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in English/Secondary Education from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts degree in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University.
Oris Friesen is an independent Information Technology (IT) consultant and adjunct faculty member at Mesa Community College (MCC). He is also a Director of the eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students (eSATS). As an engineer, scientist and Fellow in industry for more than 30 years with General Electric, Honeywell and Groupe Bull, he has been instrumental in leading groundbreaking developments in database management technologies. He has served as a Research Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and chairs of several Industry Advisory Boards at MCC. He has been instrumental in leading the effort to develop a new curriculum at MCC dealing with Network Security, Information Assurance, Cyberforensics and Bioinformatics. He is currently focusing on projects dealing with digital visual literacy, curriculum development, telecommunications, cyber security and bioinformatics.
Florence Martin is an assistant professor of instructional technology at the University of North Carolina – Wilmington. She has worked with Cisco Learning Institute, Arizona State University, Intel Corporation, Maricopa Community College District, and University of Phoenix and has expertise in instructional design, performance technology, corporate training and distance learning.She is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in educational technology at Arizona State University. She has a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Bharathiyar University, India, and a master’s degree in educational technology from Arizona State University. She is interested in the research areas of multimedia design and development, process and performance improvement, digital visual literacy, and learning technologies.
John Gibson has been a faculty member in the Business & Information Technology Department at Glendale Community College since 2000. He became a Maricopa Institute for Learning (MIL) Fellow in 2001-2002 and has just returned from a 2006-2007 sabbatical. Prior to working at GCC, he was an information technology consultant at ASU West, where he worked with faculty to integrate technology into their teaching and learning endeavors. In the early 1990s, he managed information technology services for the University of Northern Colorado College of Business, Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management, and the Fall 1995 world voyage of Semester at Sea. In the late 1980s, he was a database programmer/analyst for the USDA and taught a variety of CIS courses at UNC. He received his Master of Science in Business & Computer Information Systems from Colorado State University and his Bachelor of Science in Education from Bowling Green State University (Ohio). His professional areas of interest include the use of technology in teaching and learning, customized instruction, diverse learning preferences, distributed learning environments, and workforce skills for the global knowledge economy.
Maricopa Digital Visual Literacy Project Faculty
Maricopa faculty members who have participated in the National Science Foundation DVL Project at Maricopa will discuss their individual projects and experiences.
Kay Gaisford has been an adjunct faculty member at Mesa Community College since 1999, teaching business computing and desktop publishing. For the DVL project, she developed modules which teach graphic design principles, visually effective business communications, and the application of these principles while using the many tools in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Kay is a graduate of Stanford University in Communications and has Microsoft MSCE Windows NT certification. She has many years of experience in desktop publishing.
Janet Brooks is full-time faculty at Glendale Community College in Glendale, AZ where she teaches the entire range of Microsoft curriculum, Introduction to Computers, and Owning and Operating a Small Business. In the summer of 2003 she went on the nationwide training tour for Microsoft, delivering upgrade training for corporations and government entities upgrading from either NT4 or Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003. Prior to coming to Glendale Community College she worked for Intel Corporation and was responsible for the global deployment of Windows 2000 Server for the Intel Online Services subsidiary. She has owned and operated her own business and has consulted for major corporations including American Honda, Nissan and Mitsubshi. She has a master’s degree from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree from New York University. Her certifications include MCSE,MCSA, MCT, CTT,CIW-CI , IC3 and MOS. Her professional areas of interest include combining real world experience with a passion for teaching and learning to create a dynamic classroom environment.
