FITS Center 
2007 FITS Summer Workshop - Project Proposals
Kelsey Kauffman, University Studies
Websites, Wikis and Moodle
My 2008 Winter Term course, Innocence Project, focused on the 2007 murder conviction of Ronald Glenn in Martinsville. My students did an excellent job investigating the case, including detailed analysis of several confessions. (Errors and conflicts within these confessions led most of the students to conclude that Glenn was, indeed, innocent). They started created a website, but we did not have time to finish. That is what I would like to do during the FITS workshop, plus improve use of Wikis, which I used during WT and this semester and will use extensively next semester in my Environmental Policy course.
Martha Rainbolt, English
Moodle Site for Children's Literature
I would like to work on two projects during the FITS workshop. First of all, I need to learn how to use Moodle for Children's Lit and eventually for College Writing. I have been using Blackboard and need to adapt those materials to the Moodle format. In addition, I need to learn web skills, so that I can help manage the Website for the Prindle Institute. Linda Clute would like for me to assist her in the work on the web, and I would like to learn how to manage Dreamweaver better.
Caroline Gilson, DePauw Libraries
Digital Video/Audio Shorts @ DePauw Libraries
DePauw Libraries continue to seek creative ways to reach out to students and faculty. In order to provide appealing and effective outreach services we, the librarians, must keep pace with technology and continually develop our technical skills.
This project will be a cooperative effort promoting the four libraries on campus.
Our primary goal will be to learn how to create audio shorts for broadcast on WGRE and other Internet outlets. Learning basic audio editing skills will allow us to provide training to our library colleagues and possibly create future library projects that involve the use of audio.
A second goal of the project is to build on video filming and editing techniques learned in the 2007 FITS Faculty workshop, and apply these skills to a new series of video shorts advertising resources and services available at the DePauw Libraries. The videos will be posted in various venues where students and faculty can view them such as the libraries web site and other online sites like YouTube and/or Facebook.
Kerry Pannell, Economics and Managment
Chinese Economy--mapping economic change
This project is designed to generate GIS or mapping assignments for a new course being taught in the spring: Econ 290: Topics: A Thousand Years of the Chinese Economy. This course is connected to a WinterTerm in May project that travels along the Silk Road in China. My goal is to develop materials for this course that will help students envision the places they will go, the context of those places with respect to other countries and other parts of China, and how spatial analysis helps us understand economic change.
Marie Pickerill, Kinesiology
BIO 203 Develop. using Interactive Tech.
Teaching human anatomy without a human cadaver has posed several issues for the BIO 203 course. I would like to use this FITS workshop to take advantage of new innovative computer technology to bring a human cadaver to the BIO 203 course in an interactive and engaging way. Using software such as DyKnow, and interactive workbooks (Julia Guy; Learning Human Anatomy with CD of live human dissection), I would like to make the course one of interactive learning and engagement of laboratory materials, focus on the foundational human anatomy dissection, and take advantage of student self-assessment and peer interaction to improve learning in this course. I would like to use interactive course learning (DyKnow), laboratory engagement activities with human cadaver models , and outside learning opportunities (using video annotation) as pedagogical methods allowing a human cadaver dissection without the human cadaver. I would like to maintain the laboratory dynamic, with out the typical laboratory set-up that is unavailable for Human Cadaver Dissection.
Sunil Sahu, Political Science
Update/ Improve My Website
(1) I would like to update and improve my personal/professional website. In particular, I am interested in creating a page that would have web resources related to the countries I cover in my POLS 150—China, India, Nigeria, U.K., and Iran. (2) I would like to prepare a Moodle site for my course on Comparative Politics and Government. I have used Blackboard for many years but can't learn Moodle on my own.
Rex Call, Kinesiology
Integration of Moodle into Coursework
For the FITS workshop, my overall goal is to learn how to use Moodle and convert two courses from blackboard to moodle. I hope to become familiar with any features available on moodle that would enhance my course site, benefit student learning, and assist in course administration. I would like to continue with tools that I have used on blackboard such as on-line discussion, quizzes, gradebook, announcements, course documents, and videos. A general objective for the week would be to see what types of technology (such as those below) other faculty are using in their courses.
Michele Villinski, Economics and Management
Using GIS in Environmental Economics
My goal for this project is to develop GIS and map-based exercises for my course on environmental and natural resource economics. Student learning in the course will be greatly enhanced by including in-class activities and homework problems that allow students to explore the spatial aspects of topics. In addition to assignments that allow students to manipulate and analyze spatial data in an elementary way, I would like to craft a set of activities that develop the student’s general ability to design, interpret and critique maps. Introducing GIS, maps, and spatial components into this course will help students better understand the magnitude, dynamics, and complexity of environmental issues.
Sherry Mou, Modern Languages
The Silk Road and Beyond
I am co-leading a Winter-Term trip in May with Kerry Pannell (Economics and Management), and I would like to create a Moodle class site for it. The main part of the site will be a Google Earth interactive route of the Silk Road in China, which will include various media files. A user will be able to visualize, listen to and read about history and life along the Silk Road in China.
 Faculty Instructional Technology Support - FITS is a program that assists faculty members in enhancing their teaching and their students learning through the latest technology. FITS is concerned with the pedagogical applications of technology, rather then with explicit technical training.
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 Digital Media Lab - Located in the basement of the Roy O. West Library, the dml works closely with FITS, the Web Team, Information Services and other campus technology organizations to develop consistent and easy to use services for all faculty, students and staff.
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Music Instructional Technology Center - DePauw's School of Music includes the Music Instructional Technology Center, an advanced facility that includes a computer lab, audio production facility and mobile audio recording services. MITC |
 Geographic Information Systems - The DePauw GIS Center coordinates GIS activities across campus so that information and knowledge can be shared and exchanged for the benefit of the entire DePauw community. It also collaborates with Greencastle and Putnam County communities to establish a relationship that benefits both DePauw and the surrounding region. GIS |
 Student Technology Assessment, Resources, and Training - START provides students with opportunities to enhance their liberal arts education with information technology knowledge and skills. Workshops, Web-based training, courses and one-on-one training are available to all students. START students and staff members work with faculty members to provide specific course related technology training through in-class workshops.
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