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Report from the Crossroads Project Advisory Board 2005
Judy Babbitts, Advisory Board Chair
Randy Bass, Crossroads Project Director
Fall 2005
Coming out of the 2004 Annual meeting, the primary goal was the redesign of the Crossroads website. The redesign is going forward. Plans for the redesign, as well as mock-ups for the new site, will be discussed at the Advisory Board meeting at the annual meeting. Goals of the modest redesign are to: Update the look and feel of the site, make the most used features more accessible through the site, expand the international and pedagogical sections of the site, clean up broken and out of date resources, eliminate redundancy with the ASA pages, and create some features that are more interactive. Key components of the redesign will also include foreground linkages with the international journals project (AQ) and the Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS). Current timeline for roll out of the new site is winter/early spring 2006.
Last year was the final year of the funded collaboration with Washington State University (funded through a FIPSE grant held at Georgetown). WSU primarily focused its collaboration around the documentation of the Community Partnership grant projects and the Critical Conversations features, as well as some general maintenance. The future of the WSU collaboration will be discussed at the annual board meeting.
October 31 also signals the formal funded portion of the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP). The VKP held its final annual institute in September and is producing a volume of work entitled, “The Difference that Inquiry Makes: The Impact of Learning on Teaching in Higher Education.“ Many American Studies and related fields are represented in the project, the volume and the online galleries. A VKP panel is presenting at the 2005 ASA, and VKP funds are the primary resource for the Crossroads site redesign, with a special emphasis on the pedagogical sections of the site (the “Crossroads of Teaching and Learning.“).
With the end of the Visible Knowledge Project, a nearly unbroken funding stream from external resource projects comes to an end. No external funding will exist for the Crossroads Project after this year. Georgetown will continue to host the site and provide staff support through the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship through 2006-07 at least.
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