Grants Awarded For Instructional Technology Projects

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has announced six instructional technology grant winners chosen from 30 proposals. The grants fund exemplary projects to implement instructional technology into classroom learning at a relatively small cost. Amounts of up to $30,000 are funded through the Chancellor’s Office by the Hilldale Foundation to help improve instructional technology.

Finalists were selected by a cross-campus faculty committee. Recipients provide periodic progress reports to grant administrators with a final report at the completion of their projects. Winners also demonstrate completed grant projects as part of a DoIT seminar. Projects include:

Music Over the Campus Network, awarded to Geri Laudati, Mills Music Library, in collaboration with the School of Music. This project will create a prototype virtual library of digitized audio resources, streaming course-related music via the campus’s electronic library and the World Wide Web.
Interactive Web-Based Exercises on the Weather, awarded to Steve Ackerman, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. This project will develop interactive learning activities for introductory courses. Through the Web, students will use tutorials to interpret weather maps and learn the concept of atmospheric stability.
CD-ROM for Teaching Movement Analysis, awarded to Mary Brennan, School of Education Dance Program. This project will continue the development of a CD-ROM for illustrating the movement of the human body in space and time using three-dimensional computer-animated figures.
Interactive Listening Comprehension Lessons Based on Authentic Indonesian Materials, awarded to Ellen Rafferty, South Asian Studies. This project will develop five interactive lessons for teaching Indonesian, a less commonly taught language.
Interactive Web-Based Simulations of Chemical Models, awarded to Robert Hamers, Chemistry. This project will allow students to enter data and observe graphs of chemical equations and take online tests about the simulations.
3-D Lecture Animations for Physical Geography, awarded to James Burt, Geography. This project will create three-dimensional animations of weather and climate as well as an interface for similar existing animations.