Sample Project Abstracts
| TomDickinson |
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| Learning to Teach in a New Environment |
| My proposal for the FITS Summer Workshop is to learn to teach in a technology-enhanced classroom. While no stranger to computers, especially courses supported by Blackboard, and even "traditional" forms of media (overhead projector, tv/vcr, audio tape, etc.), I have never "put this all together" in a technology-enhanced classroom. In Fall of 2003 I will have three courses scheduled in technology-enhanced classrooms-Educ 170 Foundations of Education (2 sections), Educ 361 Adolescent Development, and Hist 400 SS Secondary Social Studies. I want to take my existing course structures, all of which are supported by Blackboard, and develop and integrate effective materials and methods for teaching in a t-e classroom. This development and integration would include translating existing overheads to PowerPoint presentations as well as creating new presentations; it would also mean integrating their use into the classroom with appropriate advanced organizers, questions for discussion, and follow up activities. I also want to work on creating collections of appropriate digital images that could be used in one or more of the courses as well as integrating their use into both the course requirements and activities as well as the actual lessons where they would be employed. Finally, I want to learn and begin to master the t-e classroom as a learning environment that would support my class goals of inquiry, reflection and creating a community of learners. This would mean two things: examining my existing course structures and pedagogical approaches used in each course; parallel to this effort would be my acquisition of the initial technical understanding of the components of a t-e classroom and then spending the rest of the summer beginning to master these components. Ultimately, I want to be able to approach the fall semester in a new environment as seamlessly as I now approach a "regular" classroom with the "outside" support of Blackboard. |
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| MicheleVillinski |
| A Web Site for Econ 294: Intermediate Microeconomics |
| I intend to use this workshop as a springboard for my FITS project that has already been approved for Fall 2003. My upcoming project is to work with others who have technical expertise to create animated simulations of concepts and models used in Econ 294: Intermediate Microeconomics. During the summer workshop I want to bring myself up to speed on web authoring, in part so that I will have a "home base" to house the simulations I will be designing during the next school year. I also want to make web sites for my courses in general, to serve as a central and accessible venue for disseminating course information, assignments, answer keys, and past exams. I'm very excited to learn new skills that will serve me well in my ongoing quest to enhance my courses through technology |
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| MatthewBalensuela |
| Web material for Music History |
| As part of a change in curriculum for the music history survey, I will begin teaching a one-semester survey of music history to 1900. I want to design web-based materials such as listening assignments, homework material, analyses of works, and web-based discussion into the course. Although I have taught history for several years at DePauw, I had been expecting this change in the curriculum and have not done any of these types of projects (HTML, sound files, or discussion) up until this time. I am really starting from scratch on the technology. The pedagogical goal of learning these skills is to change the dynamics of the classroom time from being the only time I interact with the students about the material, to being one of many times we interact about history. I want to move the work of the classroom time from lecture to more discussion-oriented time. I feel I need to produce new ways for the student to interact with the material on their own time and at their own pace but with opportunities for them to provide feedback to me out of the classroom. |
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