Marnie McInnes I'd like to put together a website for faculty members teaching first-year seminars. Included might be links to syllabi from current and past FYS, handouts related to pedagogy and advising, resources for teaching about plagiarism, and sample assignments. It doesn't need to be fancy, but it should be appealing enough so that faculty members actually go to it, and it should be easy to use. -- If there's time, I'd also like to update the Graduate Studies website, focusing particularly on our list of international awards and fellowships for students.

Thomas Musser My main objective is to gain an understanding of the new Blackboard version 6.0, and to set up my ECON 150 and ECON 280 courses on Blackboard 6.0 for for Spring 2004 semester.

James (Jim) Gammon This project involves the development of a power point presentation as a summarization of significant agricultural impacts to Indiana streams in the corn belt region of the U.S. Some examples we have simply happened to be in the right place and the right time to assess. Others constitute large-scale efforts to determine negative effects from such ag. activities as hog lots, cattle pastures, etc. Key sites range from small headwaters in Putnam County to large rivers such as the
Wabash River.

Cathy Hamilton As part of the WTIS programming, we offer to each trip particpant videos from their WTIS trips. The quality of the videos have been marginal in the past couple of years. I would like to learn how to make much higher quality videos
from the digital camera images and movies that the students will bring back. In addition, we are hoping to create a promotional video for the WTIS program using interviews
taken during de-briefing or re-entry sessions and on-site photos with the recent trip participants. As part of that video, we are planning to incorporate an alumni perspective
including interviews with previous years' participants.

Vanessa Dickerson My goal for this project is to learn how to use blackboard so that I may more efficiently and economically communicate with my students. I wish particularly to be able to share my syllabus and to provide for my class readings, which, in the past, I have had to bundle up into an expensive reading packet. I have noted that there are lots of other things that one can do with blackboard, but for now I am concerned with learning and using its most basic "properties." With this project, I
intend to be brought, so to speak, into the 21st century.