Center for Digital Technology and Learning Projects,
2003 – 2006
Summer
2006
Summer Technology Workshops to
help faculty better utilize Blackboard course management system and Cowles
Library digital content.
Spring
2006
Faculty Tech
Series, by Peggy Steinbronn and
Dan Alexander. A series of workshops on using technology in teaching
given by Drake faculty. Results: The 5 seminars were well-attended.
Final Cut Pro Studio, Adobe Photoshop,
computer RAM and external fire wire hard drive to support film research
project, Sandra Patton-Imani, Department for the Study of Culture and Society
(partially funded). Result: Film
project Red Light, Green
Light: Family Values, Family Pride Result: in development.
C.O.P.Y.? art project for Advanced Sculpture class, sponsored
by Bethany Springer, Department of Art and Design. Result: Project given and
web course and exhibited to the University community, Spring 2005.
Wellcome Trust Medical Images DVD-ROM
Library for summer 06 web course, sponsored by Amy Wisniewski, Biology
Department (partially funded). Result: DVD used in web courses
Winter
Break 2006
Development workshop for faculty
teaching on the web for the first time. Result: Faculty were better prepared to develop web
course
Fall
2005
Copyright Chats Series for Faculty
& Staff sponsored by Marcia Keyser, Cowles Library
(((Have you Heard))) by Carol Spaulding-Kruse, associate professor of
English. Seed money was provided by the CDTL as part of its 2005 Summer
Technology Workshop. Results: Project accomplished.
See website http://infoweb.drake.edu/cspauld/Home.htm
Summer
2005
Summer Technology Workshop: Nine
Drake faculty members participate in a two-week seminar jointly sponsored by
the Drake Telemedia Center, the Office of Information Technology, Cowles
Library and the CDTL and funded by the Provost's Office Faculty Development
funds. Results: faculty will be integrating projects into their courses this
year and will be presenting their projects to the Drake community throughout
the year.
Spring
2005
DULAP Language
Across the Curriculum Wiki by Jan Marston and Clayton Mitchell, DULAP
(Drake University Language Acquisition Project). Funding for advanced German,
French and Spanish students to develop a WIKI for DULAP Result: Wike developed.
DULAP
iPod Pilot Project by Clayton Mitchell and Jan Marston. Funding for 5 iPods
with voice recoding capabilities for a pilot project investigating the effects
of allowing student to use iPods to record and listen to language practice
sessions outside of class. Results: Project completed and ipods used as
described..
Adapting to Media
Convergence in JMC 58 and JMC 59 by Lee Joliffe, Journalism and
Communications. Visual Communication (JMC 58/9) has become the JMC's primary
conduit for students to learn about "media convergence. This project funds
a student assistant to help Professor Joliffe digitalized graphics and
integrate them into the course website. Results: Project completed as planned.
Funding for travel
and registration for Educause Conference Technology, Culture, and
Collaboration: Next Challenges for Higher Education by Brad Toussaint,
director Drake Telemedia Center and Technology Director of the School of
Management & Communications. Results: Projects implemented as a result of
conference attendance.
Funding for
additional travel and registration Apple Final Cut Pro HD Certification
Training at 2005 National Association of Broadcasters Convention for Sandy
Henry, DTC MultiMedia Project Director. Results: The certification led to the
creation of lab components for JMC 100 and JMC 114.
Faculty Tech
Series, by Peggy Steinbronn and Marcia Keyser. A series of weekly workshops
on using technology in teaching given by staff from Cowles Library and the
Office of Information Technology. Results: The 8 seminars were well-attended.
Second
Annual Drake DU-Student Film Festival co-sponsored with the Office of
Information Technology (OIT). Results: Several films were submitted
and showcased in an award ceremony in March 2005.
Additional
funding for An attempt to Determine the Relationships between Technology,
Student Learning, and Pedagogy Given Individual Student Learning Styles,
started in 2003-04. Preliminary report written.
Winter
Break 2005
Workshop for Faculty
Teaching Summer Web Courses for the First Time, inter-session, January 2005.
Results: All faculty who attended successfully offered courses in summer 2005.
Also a Blackboard course was created that can be used for assisting future
faculty teaching online for the first time.
Travel to the
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University by Catherine Taylor,
English. The purpose of the trip is to aid in Taylor's preparation for a course
on documentaries she is teaching. Result: Trip successfully completed and
experiences Professor Taylor gained were incorporated into her course, ENG 93:
Reading and Writing Non-Fiction: The Documentary.
Teaching assistant
for ENG 93: Reading and Writing Non-Fiction: The Documentary by Catherine
Taylor, English. The assistant trains the class and community members in the
use of the cameras and the editing software. The proposal also provides
modest funds for students to use Drake Telemedia Center. Result: Assistant
helped students produce their own documentaries for ENG 93: Reading and Writing
Non-Fiction: The Documentary
Audio transcriber
and Microphone, by Darcie Vandegrif, Culture and Society . The equipment
supports Vandegrif's research project ÒYoung Elites in the New Russia.Ó
Results: Vandegrif purchased a microphone and digital transcribing hardware is
able to conduct interviews with a higher sound quality and can transcribe the
interviews on the computer.
Preserving the
Historical Voice of Drake University: An Initiative to Implement the Oral
History Format into Drake's Digital Repository (DDR) by Claudia Frazer,
Cowles Library. Frazer will develop an oral and visual history of Drake that
will be available via DD). Results: Oral and visual history conent available at
DDR. See http://www.lib.drake.edu/heritage/
Seminar on GIS and
New Jersey Landscape Project, by Keith Summerville, Environmental Science
and Policy. The seminar given by David M. Golden (New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection) discusses the New Jersey Landscape Project which
employs an extension of existing Geographic Information Systems technology
(GIS). Result: David Golden spoke in the spring 2004. The audience not only
included students and faculty, but people from the Iowa Department of Natural
Resources and the US Army Corp of Engineers. Several students attended dinner
with Golden.
A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The
Changing Culture of Perry, Iowa. by Jody Swilky, English. This project will
develop several short digital video modules designed to show students how to
use writing and digital video production to carry out research. It is an
outgrowth of Swilky's documentary film project, "A Little Salsa on the
Prairie: The Changing Culture of Perry," Iowa, which is partially
supported by a Humanities Iowa grant. Results: Three modules have been
developed for English 99, Reading and Writing Place through Word and
Image which is scheduled to be offered in Spring 06.
The Analytical
Sciences Digital Library, coordinated by Mark Vitha, Chemistry. Result:
This project immersed two undergraduate students in a National Science
Foundation project aimed at establishing a digital library of websites that are
fundamental to the teaching and learning of analytical chemistry.
An attempt to
Determine the Relationships between Technology, Student Learning, and Pedagogy
Given Individual Student Learning Styles, led by Diana Reed (Management)
with Professors Jim Dodd (Accounting), Tom Root (Finance), Brad Meyer
(Management), Jimmy Senteza (Finance), Andy Norman (Marketing), Inchul Suh
(Finance); Doug Hillman (Accounting); Joyce Njoroge (Accounting); student
assistants. An research project comparing online to other modes of learning.
This study will be extended to the fall of 2004 the plane is to track all of
the incoming 2004 CBPA entering students. Results: Project underway but
research not completed.
The Pursuit of
OAI: Exploring Open Source Software Options for Drake's Digital Repository
by Claudia Thornton Frazer, Cowles Library. Attend the 3-day Web-Wise
2004: Sharing Digital Resources conference in Chicago on March 3-5, 2004 in
support of Drake's Digital Repository (DDR). Results: The workshop was attend
and what was learned at the workshop was applied to the DDR.
Partial funding
for an original one-hour screenplay, by John Holman, An original Film
by Holman. William Dougherty, Music Department is composing the score and
Robert Craig , Art, is providing technical advice on the films content.
Results: Filming underway but not completed.
Workshop:
How to Exploit the Unix Foundations of Mac OS X For Research in Science and
Mathematics. By Professor Jerry Honts. Results: A one-day workshop in
May 2004 taught attendants how to use MAC OS X to run UNIX programs. The
participants want follow-up workshops. Over 10 faculty and staff attended
Attend the 2004
Texas Distance Learning Association Annual Conference, from March 28- April 1,
2004, by Marcia Keyser, Cowles Library. To acquire skills to create a
web-based version of LIB 046 Information Literacy. Results: The course
was offered as a web course in Summer 05
Faculty
Development for an interdisciplinary course entitled Multimedia Poetics by
Professor Catherine Taylor, English, with Professors Graham Foust, English, and
Thomas Knauer, Fine Arts. Faculty development, books and book making materials
to support the development of a proposed ISIT Tier II course, Multimedia
Poetics. Results: Multimedia was offered in Spring 05.
MYDUSIS and
Blackboard Student Help Group, by Brett Larsen (Drake 06, SOE). A student
initiated experiment provided help to students during evening and weekend
hours. Results: This student group helped many students work through
registration issues and also helped with summer orientation.
The First Annual
Drake DU-Student Film Festival co-sponsored with the Office of Information
Technology (OIT). Results: Over seven five-minute films were
submitted and showcased in an awards ceremony, late April 2004
A Faculty Workshop
featuring Steve Erhman of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group (TLT)
co-sponsored with OIT. The workshop introduced faculty to TLT, a
online resource to which Drake subscribes. Results: Over 10 faculty and staff
attended the workshop in June 2004.
II:
Facilities Developed
Multimedia
Development Studio for students and faculty, Carnegie 7. High-end
workstations geared towards multimedia production. Open, November 03
Computer
Classroom, Dial 1, Dial Center. The classroom will contain fourteen
computer windows work stations, created to support the Digital Citizenship
project, but available for use by Drake faculty, staff and students.