2006 Summer Workshop Project Abstracts (displayed as they are submitted)
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| OpheliaGoma: Economics |
| Multi-media Components for ECON100 |
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| HarryBrown: English |
| Multi-Purpose Web Design |
| I'm hoping for an intensive workshop on web design using FrontPage or Dreamweaver, in order to enhance both my pedagogy and my service committment to the English department.
I've served as chair of the English Department Web Committee for the past two years, and we haven't been able to accomplish very many of the changes we envisioned, simply because we have no proficiency in web design; few in our department do. While I can maintain and update a web site, I know little about the design process. I simply want to acquire some technical expertise that will expand the potential for what this committee can actually do.
My long-term goals are more pedagogical. Although I've used Blackboard extensively, I've never used a course website, though I have frequently had occasion to do so. I'd like to be able to create and maintain efficient websites for those courses I teach most frequently, such as ENG 283 (American Writers) and ENG 130 (College Writing II).
My primary goal for this workshop isn't product-oriented, such as the creation of new sites for the department or for ENG 283, though I hope these products will naturally emerge from the experience I gain through the workshop. I simply want to gain a basic proficiency in the medium that I can continue to sharpen and apply to a variety of teaching and service projects over time, as needs arise.
Thanks for your consideration. |
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| JasonFuller: Religious Studies |
| Personal Web Site Design (South Asian Studies Clearinghouse) |
| I would like to use the workshop to design and publish a personal/professional website. The website would be used as a clearinghouse for information about the study of South Asian religions at DePauw. In addition to personal information and copies of syllabi I would like the website to include sound files, slide presentations, and video files related to the study of South Asian religions. My goal would be to create a website that students could go to for quick and easy access to web-resources related to the study of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Afghanistan. The website would function synergistically with the materials covered in my classes but would also serve more, generally, as a resource portal to the study of all things South Asian on the web. |
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| HirokoChiba: ML |
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| The conjugations of verbs and adjectives are major stumbling blocks for Japanese learners due to the 9 different forms that they need to understand and memorize. The automaticity of each conjugation is crucial when they carry conversations. The volume of verbs and adjective requires constant review for the learners to keep them active. In order to facilitate the process, I created a verb database with Chad Arnold (FITS student intern) during the summer of 2004 supported by FITS and MITC (The Midwest Instructional Technology Center), with which learners can review and preview verbs and their different forms anytime online. (Please see username: your email username, password: jpnVocab.) The feedback from the students for the online exercises was very positive. This summer, I would like to create the online exercises for adjective conjugations. In addition to the adjective database, I would like to add a search engine so that any instructor can sort the words from the database. What I hope to do at the FITS summer workshop is to add a search engine and create a proto-type of the exercises for adjective conjugations. The online exercises will be implemented in the fall of 2006.
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| KeithTonne: Music |
| Computer assisted learning for diction classes |
| To learn to sing in a "foreign" language, a singer must learn to make correlations between written symbols and sounds. This correlation must work in both directions: sounds to symbols, and symbols to sounds. I'm convinced that a programmed learning system would speed and improve the developement of this learning. I would like to explore how a comprehensive learning system could be used in multiple languages that are important to singers, beginning with Italian. |
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| MicheleVillinski: Economics |
| Enhancing GIS Skills |
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| ThomasDickinson: Education Studies |
| DyKnow and Images of Teaching |
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| LoriMiles: Art |
| Converting Sculpture Course to Digital |
| The sculpture lab course utilizes a combination of demonstrations, slide lectures, and discussions which are mostly still taught using standard slides and paper hand-outs. I'd like to be able to convert my slide lectures to power point presentations, and have all relavent class information available on Blackboard. Also, I've been incorporating more readings, which could ideally be accessible digitally. I have a very limited understanding of these applications and though I imagine these courses could be converted easily, I require some specific instruction in the application of these tools. |
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| TammyKjonaas: Physics |
| Web-based Catalog of Physics Lecture Demonstrations |
| My proposed project is a web-based catalog of physics lecture demonstrations available in the DePauw Physics department. The catalog will be organized by topic using the Demo Classification System (DCS) created by the Physics Instructional Resource Association (PIRA). Faculty members will be able to look up possible demonstrations for lectures and labs, request a demo setup for a specific class, and view or print demo procedures, explanations, precautions, and instructional materials. In addition to browsing or searching by topic, professors may browse suggested demonstrations for the courses they are currently teaching. The webpage will also contain an electronic list of equipment manuals indicating where they are physically filed in the department. This catalog will greatly increase the faculty's ability to enhance their classes with visual demonstrations. With little experience in web authoring, I hope to gain from the FITS workshop some training in the use of Dreamweaver while establishing the webpage so I can enter the demo descriptions in the weeks following the workshop. I also hope to learn how to make the catalog very user-friendly and accessible for the faculty. |
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| RebeccaUpton: Sociology/Anthropology |
| How to Build a Virtual Museum: African Arts On-line |
| My objective as a member of the FITS summer workshop is to acquire the skills that will complement my recently designed course on African Arts and Museums. This course was designed as my Fisher Time Out project and will be taught in the spring of 2007. My application for the FITS workshop grows out of the realization in discussion with Kaytie Johnson that many of the African objects that we have at DePauw cannot or should not be handled by myriad people and this would present problems when asking students to craft an exhibit as their final project for the course. In response to this concern the idea of an exhibit that could be accessed on line via the web makes most sense and would certainly enhance the University's public image and growing interest in making our collections more accessible to wider audiences. In this manner students could still be responsible for writing text, choosing appropriate images of objects, finding themes for an exhibit and even creating tangible exhibit brochures. While these are all aspects of museum studies that I am well aquainted with and have used in my own exhibit designs elsewhere, I have never put together a web based exhibit or had to instruct students as to how to do so. While many students are well versed in technology and web design, many are not and being able to explain to them how this will actually work, as a person with such newly acquired skills, will ease the sometimes 'fear' of having to pull together an on line final project. Increasingly, those in museum fields are asked to combine knowledge of collections with contemporary technological programs. As this becomes more common and we have more students interested in pursuing such careers, having experience in an undergraduate classroom setting with a student-designed web exhibit (still combined with the final manuscripts and texts that can be distributed to the public) will stand them in enormously good stead. Ideally I would learn in this workshop not just web authorship, but how to draw upon audio and visual components that might enhance an African arts exhibit (perhaps available from the then newly designed DPU website?) as well as grounding our classroom time in external discussions about theory and texts we read. Lastly, this course will contribute to the Black studies curriculum and I hope that my increased knowledge about web based courses and elements of advanced courses such as this will contribute back into my other African studies interactive classes. |
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| RebekahLong: English |
| A Medieval & Renaissance Studies website for DePauw |
| Proposal: Designing a medieval & Renaissance studies website for the DePauw community
I would like to develop the skills necessary to create a course website for my FYS this fall, King Arthur and Arthurian legend. I am especially committed to creating a broadly-conceived medieval and Renaissance studies site that would attract not only my own seminar students but also provide a showcase for our emerging Med-Ren studies community at DePauw (the website would advertise Med-Ren centered courses and highlight faculty interests and accomplishments). I would like to acquire the expertise necessary to build this site and expand it into a space to be visited by our many students interested in early period studies; the site would also be useful for Med-Ren specialists on the DePauw faculty as it would provide a quick way of linking to web information relevant to our research and pedagogical interests. The website would therefore function as a virtual pilgrimage site for those interested in Med-Ren studies scholarship (links to journals such as Speculum, Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, SAC, Arthuriana, and JMEMS and upcoming conferences would be organized for easy and convenient access).
In my envisioning of this project the website will include numerous links to the hundreds of academic web pages specific to medieval and Renaissance sudies (the Harvard Chaucer website, Shakespeare online, Luminarium, and Labyrinth, for example), manuscripts, audio files (mp3 files of readings in Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, and early period music), jpeg images of medieval artwork (LUNA) and film stills, links to on-line versions of medieval texts (TEAMS and other sources).
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| TimGood: Communication & Theatre |
| Web Site for Comm department |
| Learn details of Dreamweaver so that we can deploy advantages such as video clips and video streaming for our different projects in Communication and Theater. Overall enhancement of the online portal into our department. |
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| SusanDewey: Anthropology |
| Digital editing of a documentary film based on ethnographic research in the Pacific |
| Robert Dewey and I filmed over 30 hours of video related to his ongoing research in the Pacific Islands last summer. While this has been useful to show in both of our classes, my goal is to create a 60 minute documentary-style piece to use in the classroom. Students would greatly benefit not only from seeing a piece of ethnographic film on a region both Robert and I regularly focus on in our classes, but also from the integration of our direct research experience into a classroom environment. I attended a FITS workshop at Wabash last spring and have some knowledge of digital editing, but have a series of specific questions that could be addressed by attending another at DePauw. |
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