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Providence, RI – Providence College’s Faculty Technology Projects Review Committee (FTPRC) recently awarded seven grants totaling $31,248 to 12 Providence College faculty members. The grants were approved as part of the latest cycle of instructional technology project applications funded through the Davis Educational Foundation.
The faculty committee has allocated more than $111,000 for proposals involving 55 faculty members since the College was awarded the three-year, $300,000 grant by the Davis Educational Foundation in 2002. Located in Falmouth , Maine , the foundation was established by Stanton Davis and his wife, Elizabeth, following his retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. in 1985.
The FTPRC approved the following projects:
• TITLE: Enhanced Mathematica Software Use in Multiple Math Courses
Recipients: Dr. Liam A. Donohoe, assistant professor of mathematics; Dr. Wataru Ishizuka, assistant professor of mathematics; and Dr. C. Joanna Su, associate professor of mathematics
Amount: $7,000
Type: collaborative project
Description: This project will allow the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to begin to utilize Mathematica, a commercially available software package that provides a powerful symbolic computational tool for faculty and students. The collaborators plan to use ANGEL’s (A New Global Environment for Learning) survey tools to poll students in courses utilizing Mathematica concerning the effectiveness of this software in helping students to better understand course materials.
• TITLE: Video of Laboratory Techniques for Chemistry Labs
Recipients: Dr. Carl D. Baer, professor of chemistry, and Dr. Kenneth R. Overly, associate professor of chemistry
Amount: $6,390
Type: collaborative project
Description: This project is designed to create a library of short video demonstrations of common laboratory techniques used in general and organic chemistry to augment in-class instruction. These videos can be viewed as pre-laboratory assignments to familiarize students with equipment and methods.
• TITLE: Enhanced Use of Technology in Comparative Politics Courses
Recipients: Dr. Susan K. McCarthy, assistant professor of political science, and Dr. Robert H. Trudeau, professor of political science
Amount: $5,200
Type: collaborative project
Description: This project seeks to integrate more electronically based material into courses focused on comparative politics. In addition, Trudeau and McCarthy will look to develop and use the Resource Content Libraries component of the ANGEL course management software system, enabling them to more easily share these resources and results with colleagues in their department.
• TITLE: Assistive Technology Use in Special Needs Courses
Recipients: Dr. Deborah P. Goessling, associate professor of education, and Dr. Laura Boynton Hauerwas, associate professor of education
Amount: $4,585
Type: mentor/mentee project
Description: The primary objective of the proposed activities is to assist the Department of Elementary/Special Education in meeting its goal for students to develop the ability to use appropriate assistive technology with students with special needs. Goessling and Hauerwas will work with the Education Technology Committee to develop an assessment of students’ ability to use assistive technology with special education students during the senior-year student teaching experience.
• TITLE: Digital Format for Introduction to Archaeology Course
Recipient: Dr. Susan Heuck Allen, adjunct associate professor of art history
Amount: $3,000
Type: solo project
Description: With the assistance of the Department of Art and Art History’s Visual Resource Center , Allen will scan and catalog several hundred images for use in her courses. She anticipates that she will include these digital images in her lectures through the use of PowerPoint.
• TITLE:Cases, Negotiations, Simulations and Videos in Comparative Management Course
Recipient: Dr. Pamela D. Sherer, associate professor of management
Amount: $2,907
Type: solo project
Description: Sherer’s project will focus on the development and enhancement of student learning activities/assignments in her Comparative Management seminar (MGT 410). She plans to address this through the use of multimedia and various features available through ANGEL. Sherer also seeks to apply Fink’s “Taxonomy of Significant Learning” model in designing class assignments.
• TITLE:ANGEL & Multimedia PowerPoint Use in Sociology Courses
Recipient: Dr. Josephine A. Ruggiero, professor of sociology
Amount: $2,166
Type: solo project
Description: Ruggiero plans to develop multimedia and PowerPoint presentations that will be incorporated into the ANGEL course management software for her Social Change course. She expects to demonstrate to students how the course itself changes when enhanced technology is used to help frame and communicate ideas and generate discussion.
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