So What Can You Do With Technology In Your Courses?
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Summer 2006 Faculty Projects
Drew University's summer faculty development workshop ran from June 19, 2006 - June 23, 2006 and turned out to be a very successful training experience for those faculty members who attended. The theme of this years workshop was "Bring Your Own Project," a week-long training designed to provide faculty with the formal , equipment, and personalized instruction needed to create a variety of classroom-related projects such as e-books, dynamic PowerPoint presentations, and web-based language drills.
This year's participants included:| Jonathan Golden - Anthropology |
| Jim Hala - English |
| Sandra Jamieson - English |
| Wendy Kolmar - Women's Studies and English |
| Jessica Lakin - Psychology |
| Kesha Moore - Sociology |
| John Muccigrosso - Classics |
| Beth Patterson - Reference and Government Documents Librarians |
| Sara Webb - Biology |
Workshop TopicsWorkshop Title | Instructor |
| ATTIC (course information resources) | E. Axel Larsson/ Mike Richichi |
| Information Literacy (Research Resources) | Jody Caldwell |
| DreamWeaver Basics (webpage building) | Joe Busse |
| GroupWise Training (email) | Wendy Sue Williams |
| Captivate (teaching software) | John Saul |
| Introduction to Tablet PC's | Gamin Bartle |
| Using Technology Enhanced Classrooms | Brian Gardner |
Feedback
From these particular faculty members, we received stunning feedback about our development and delivery of this particular workshop. Overall we scored a 4.9 out of 5 as an average of all of the workshops we delivered this summer.
Outcomes
One of the goals of the workshop is to inspire faculty to take their newfound technology skills and implement a full project into a course or courses, that will be broad in scope, take a significant amount of effort, and will significantly impact the learning process of their students as well as impact on the faculty members' teaching.
- Fred Curtis is planning on developing a graphical user interface to teach a new course called Corporations in Context. The graphical interface is going to allow students to see the connections between corporations, and their contextual components. The contextual components will be "click-able" and will expand to show resources and information about each component.
Summer 2003 Faculty Projects
| Instructor | Workshops Attended | Skills Acquired | Objectives | Project Reports |
| Sarah Abromowitz | Summer Workshops 2003 | | Blackboard: To give students the opportunity to print their own hand outs; to use the course calendar feature; to have online discussions; to post Powerpoint presentations. | Report |
| Monica Cantero | Summer Workshops 2003 | - Blackboard
- Flash
- Dreamweaver
| Blackboard: To post powerpoint presentations; to create discussion forums; to post announcements; to post tests. Flash and Dreamweaver: To create a personal page. | Report |
| Maria Masucci | Summer Workshops 2003 | - Blackboard
- Photoshop
- Powerpoint
- Video editing
| Blackboard: To have online discussion forums; to track students' usage of Bb to grade participation; to post course materials.
PowerPoint: To create presentations to include in Bb.
Analog/Digital Data Transfer: To digitize VHS tapes.
Adobe Photoshop: To scan and edit images.
| Report |
| Christina McKittrick | Summer Workshops 2003 | - PowerPoint
- Blackboard
- Dreamweaver.
| PowerPoint: To add more visual interest to a presentation; to add hyperlinks to a slide.
Blackboard: To use features such as forums, quizzes, gradebook; to post class materials.
Dreamweaver: To create a course and personal website.
| Report |
Class Projects - 2003/2004
Biology 9 sections 1 & 2 - Prof. David Myamoto and Prof. Lee Pollock
Click here to visit the course website created by Prof. Pollock, Prof. Myamoto, Gabriella Frisoli (IT) and all the students from both sections.
Political Science: "The Europe in America Project" - Prof. William Messmer
Click here to visit the course website created by Prof. Messmer, Gabriella Frisoli (IT) and all the students from Fall Semester, 2003 PSci 137 - Europe In World Affairs
Ongoing Projects
History: "The Scientific Manuscripts of Charles Darwin" - by Prof. David Kohn
The Darwin Scientific Manuscripts Project will provide a structure for the eventual online publication of the over 80,000 pages of notebooks, portfolios of loose notes, unpublished essays and drafts, largely held at Cambridge University Library and Down House that reveal in unprecedented detail the crucial steps in Darwin's scientific work.
