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Projects Awarded Fall 2004
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 “Young Elites in the New Russia.” 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 by Claudia Frazer, Cowles Library. Frazer will develop an oral and visual history of Drake that will be available via Drake's Digital Repository. Results: Awaiting report
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.