The College of Arts and Sciences together with the TLT Center launched two additional online courses this Fall: Communication Ethics (taught by Dr. Don McKenna from the Department of Communication) and American History I (taught by Dr. Brigitte Koenig from the Department of History).
When asked about his experience developing COMM 2134 - Communication Ethics, Dr. McKenna,
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.
On February 14, 2008 the TLT Center and the Dean's Office for the College of Arts and Sciences launched a call for proposals for the 2008-2009 Arts and Sciences Online Course Development grants. The goal of this initiative has been to offer online undergraduate and graduate courses to create more flexible course options for traditional and non-traditional students. Faculty who are awarded these grants use Blackboard and a template based on the Quality Matters rubric to develop and implement their course.
Now in its fifth year, the program has been very successful and has received positive feedback by both students and faculty. The Dean's Office of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center is pleased to announce this year's grant recipients.
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.
On Thursday, February 14 the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center held a Grant and Faculty Showcase, highlighting past grant recipients. Danielle Mirliss, the Associate Director of Instructional Design and Training, gave a short introduction on the type of grants available. Renee Cicchino, Mike Soupious and Maribel Roman detailed each opportunity, Faculty Innovation, A&S Online, ReSoft and SURF later in the program.
It's that time of year when the call for proposals for the 2008-2009 Faculty Innovation and Online Arts and Science courses grants are launched! The official launch is Thursday, February 14, 2008 during the TLTR/TLT Center's Annual Best Practices event. This year's event, appropriately called 'Show Your Love for Faculty Innovation', will highlight Faculty Innovation projects and Online Arts and Sciences courses in various stages of completion. You will have the opportunity to see what faculty have done, the process of creating the projects and experiences they've gained.
