Marian Glenn, Full-time Faculty, Biology and Beth Bloom, Associate Professor, Libraries were awarded a Faculty Innovation Grant for 2008-2009 to pilot the use of digital storytelling in CORE1101, Journey of Transformation this fall semester to evaluate the effectiveness of using this medium to achieve course objectives while providing an engaging alternative reflective activity for students with different learning styles.
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Dr. Ed Jones, Associate Professor of English, was awarded a 2008-2009 Faculty Innovation Grant. The FIG project involved seven students who had just completed their freshman year. The goal for the students was to create digital stories illustrating "conversion" or "aha" moments during the first-year writing program. The finished digital stories will be used as a resource for the incoming freshman class and the English faculty.
Students created their digital stories using Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, both of which are part of the standard software on the new laptops (T61 and X61).
In total, the students spent five days planning, writing, revising, conducting personal and peer review, locating resources, taking photos, and building and editing in Elements and Photoshop. When they were finished, students converted their final digital stories to video format. Below are two examples:
Lost in My Own Voice by Krystal Fields
Jump into the Writing Center by Melissa Marcial
A link to all of the digital stories has been placed on the English 1201 website. Click on Digital stories of first-year writing experience to see all of the wonderful student projects.
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center's Faculty Innovation Grant program, now in its 5th year, complements CDI in achieving the objectives of the TLT Center's internal grant programs by providing small short term (up to one year) grants to individual faculty to explore how technology can improve student learning in one particular course. This year we received a tremendous amount of proposals from a variety of departments. The faculty review committee had a difficult time narrowing down the pool of applicants to eight outstanding proposals.
We are pleased to announce the award winners, the titles of their projects and their department/colleges.
Continue reading 2008-2009 Faculty Innovation Grant Award Recipients.
Who do you call on when you need help determining the best technology tool for a course project? Who can support you with the implementation process and see you through to the end? The TLT Center's Instructional Design Team! We are the primary point of contact for faculty technology projects, including support for teaching and learning initiatives. Each Instructional Designer is assigned to a number of departments. So, who's YOUR instructional designer?
Continue reading Who's Your Instructional Designer?.
Join us on February 14th from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm for the TLTR/TLT Center Grant Launch and Showcase. Learn about internal grant opportunities available through the TLT Center. This event will take place in the Beck rooms on the ground floor of Walsh Library.
Grant opportunities include:
- Faculty Innovation Grants (FIG's)
- A&S Online Course Development Grants
- ReSoft (Research Software) Grants
Current grant recipients will showcase their projects and share their experiences. Lunch will be served. Click here to register for this event today!
