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ACS-Mellon Technology Fellows Lewis Barnett, lbarnett@richmond.edu and Joe
Kent, jkent@richmond.edu (CS) Working with two undergraduate students, the proposers will extend a set of interactive, on-line tutorials known as "A Digital Tapestry" and prepare the materials for distribution on CD-ROM to interested colleagues at ACS institutions. The tutorials support the teaching of fundamental principles in introductory computer science classes. They are implemented in Java to support their use on many types of computers. Full
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Eugene Cain, caince@okra.millsaps.edu (Chemistry) Using multimedia to present infrared spectral analysis as a self-teaching activity for students. Presents a systematic approach to simplify the interpretation of the infrared spectra of organic compounds. The identification of covalent bonds is enhanced by a system for cross-checking the results. Russell
Knudson, knudson.r@wlu.edu (French) The "NlightN" project is a complete French review course titled "reprise grammaticale" which consists of computer based interactive experiences with grammar principles, exercises, reviews and a complete testing program. These materials have just been made available on the World Wide Web. This proposal is to add an interactive audio component to these materials. Full
Proposal (Spring & Summer) Karoline Manny, kmanny@rollins.edu (Spanish) The goal of this project is to create interactive, communicative activities for elementary and intermediate Spanish language classes that are available on the WWW and are, therefore, accessible any time outside of class. These exercises will involve vocabulary and grammar typically taught in beginning Spanish classes (greetings, family, food, clothing etc). They will be used as homework with the hope that they will increase the amount of time students spend actively use the target language to exchange information and therefore increase proficiency in the target language. Robert
Morgan, morganb@southwestern.edu (Biology) Digitized, labeled images of the "standard" tissues studied in undergraduate courses in histology will be made available to faculty who access the ACS web site. These images will be accompanied by brief narrative descriptions. It is anticipated that a significant amount of "sharing" of images among ACS biology faculty will result. Full
Proposal Robert
A. Quinn, quinnra@millsaps.edu (Spanish) Envisioned as a series of interactive lessons, coordinated websites, and teaching enhancements which can serve as models for more effective instruction in the humanities, this project focuses on the key people who have shaped the literature of Spain and the major characters portrayed in it. Materials developed in conjunction with the project will be used in a Survey of Peninsular Literature course, and they will be assessed by students and teachers using an evaluation checklist that includes a section for written comments. Dissemination of the results will be via the web, presentations, and an article. David
B. Bieler, dbieler@beta.centenary.edu (Geology) Students learn better when they have a context in which to place the material they are learning. My purpose is to develop pre-lab and post-lab exercises for introductory geology, largely as virtual field trips, to enhance student learning of laboratory material. Rocks and structures will be related to a regional context (such as the Grand Canyon for sedimentary rocks) by having a field trip pre-lab exercise and a developmental interpretive exercise as a post-lab exercise. Glenda
Warren Carl, carlg@southwestern.edu (Classics) The workbook, consisting of vocabulary drills, grammatical explanations and exercises, pre-reading activities, cultural information, and ancillary materials, will be posted on the web and feature links to other sources for the study of Latin language and culture. A preliminary version was field-tested in the fall semester of 1997. Interactive exercises will supplement in-class work and give students the opportunity to review grammar, drill vocabulary, and prepare the readings on their own, while immediate feedback will help them identify their strengths and weaknesses. Charles
L. Cope, ccope@morehouse.edu (Mathematics) I will develop a module to teach one of the major topics from our Analysis 1 course.This module will serve as a template from which other course modules will be developed. Full
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Hasan
Crockett, hcrockett@morehouse.edu (Political Science) The ACS-Mellon Technology Fellowship will be used to explore methods of teaching political science using the Internet. Research will be conducted on integrating into the political science curriculum the virtual library, LISTSERVE and USENET, WWW multimedia, and other Internet features. Stephanie
Dew, dews@centre.edu (Biology) Macromolecular structures are often very difficult to visualize in three-dimensions. The goal of this proposal is to develop a web-based tutorial for both introductory and advanced biochemistry courses that will help students "see" these structures. To make this tutorial readily accessable, I will be using Chemscape Chime, a Netscape plug-in that is free for academic use. This program not only provides excellent pictures of the structures but also can be used interactively. Full
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Andrew
T. Gannon, agannon@bsc.edu (Biology) This project is the creation of a series of interactive web pages that will allow physiology lab students to work through the process of computer data acquisition, statistical analysis, and graphing at their own pace and on their own time. The Web pages will not tell the students what to do, as much as give them choices, ask them what they think they should do, show the results of their choices, and then ask questions to help them decide if their choice was appropriate. With the Web pages, students will not only be able to run statistics and graph results, but also to understand the process and make appropriate choices from the bewildering array of options available in data manipulation software. Full
Proposal Daniel
Koppelman, Daniel.Koppelman@furman.edu (Music) "Introduction to Music Technology," offered by the Music Department at Furman University, is a required course for prospective music majors designed to provide entry-level skills in electronic communications, MIDI sequencing and notation, digital audio, and multimedia. The project is to develop a set of materials for the course, including a web site, printed and electronic documentation, various types of "starter" files, assignments, and tests. In addition to helping organize the course here at Furman , these materials could also be used as a model for other ACS institutions wishing to offer such a course. Full
Proposal Jerry
Lisantti, lisantti@beta.centenary.edu (Physics) The goal of this project is to incorporate laboratory experiments into all of our upper-division Physics courses. This will allow for active hands-on learning in classes that in many cases are very abstract. The project will examine all of our courses and decide which experiments are best suited for each course and then an NSF-ILI grant will be written to able the necessary experiment. Full
Proposal Fred
Loxsom, floxom@trinity.edu (Physics) This project will focus on the improvement and further development of a website that I created for use with an environmental physics course, "The Earth's Changing Environment". The development of this website will include forming links with webpages from other disciplines both at Trinity and at other ACS institutions. One objective of this project is to allow users of this website to explore the wide variety of environmentally-related activities at ACS institutions. Pablo
Martinez, pmartine@trinity.edu (Spanish) "Deep Surfaces: Cultural Transactions in the Contemporary Latin American Short Story" involves the development of multimedia teaching materials and curricular enhancements to produce an innovative teaching approach to the Contemporary Latin American Short Story. Nona
Olivia, olivil@okra.millsaps.edu (Classics) I intend to design an interdisciplinary, multi-cultural humanities course on comedy which will examine the comedies of various cultures within the context of each culture's definition of and representation of humor.It will include theoretical material on humor, semiotics, and performance from ancient to contemporary theorists. Walter
S. Phelan, phelan@rollins.edu (English and Environmental Studies) This project requires students to build a conceptual framework for their own general education courses and brings concept-mapping technology to their assistance. They will be following their teacher's example by consulting the website where he links concepts from his environmental literature, ethics, and nature writing courses. Full
Proposal Wayne
Shew, wshew@bsc.edu (Biology)
and John Strohl, jstrohl@bsc.edu (Chemistry) The project involves the authoring of CD-ROMs for biology and chemistry using HTML as the authoring tool. We hope to combine the ease-of-use of HTML with the speed of a CD-ROM to develop multimedia packages for use by science students. Full
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(Strohl) Matthew
Stroud, mstroud@trinity.edu (Spanish) Foreign language instruction has used computerized drills to enhance pencil and paper workbooks for quite a while, but the advent of multimedia personal computers and the Internet opens up vast possibilities for the instruction of language, literature, and culture. This project will investigate ways to use technology in important and meaningful ways in foreign language classrooms without abandoning traditional methods or requiring students to spend as much time learning about computers as about the target language. Among the anticipated results will be sample course outlines for typical third year language courses in Spanish literature, composition and conversation, and Spanish civilization, with the idea that the strategies employed may be easily adapted to other languages. Full
Proposal Mark
Sutherland, sutherlandmv@hendrix.edu (Biology) Teaching courses in the various subdisciplines of cellular biology requires presentation of complex multistep processes involving multiple organelles working simultaneously and a host of molecules being assembled, transported and then carrying out the ir effect or functions. I plan to use Authorware and Director to develop a series of Web-based tutorials illustrating key intracellular processes which are very difficult to describe using classical teaching tools. Mary
Visser, visserm@ralph.southwestern.edu (Art) The development of a web site for students that will help them visualize three-dimensional forms and their design relationships. This will be an interactive site where the student can see the cause and effect of changing relationships between forms in real space and view these effects from all sides. Full
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Report Thomas
Whaley, whaley@wlu.edu (CS) The goal of this project is to develop materials to facilitate the teaching of parallel computing using computer systems already present at most member institutions. The focus will be on using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) software to configure a network of workstations or PC's as a parallel computer. The materials developed will include a detailed document on how to obtain and install the MPI software on Windows based machines and Unix workstations, a set of introductory level examples illustrating the use of MPI, and a set of introductory level lab assignments. These materials could serve as a starting point for anyone wishing to introduce parallel computing as a unit in an existing course, as a separate course or for use with undergraduate research projects. Full
Proposal Darren
D. Wick, wickdd@okra.millsaps.edu (Mathematics) A collection of interactive student tutorials using moving images to describe the symmetry groups of various geometric objects. The tutorials will allow the student to visualize symmetries and to connect them with the more abstract notions of group theory. The tutorials will encompass plane symmetry groups, three-dimensional symmetry groups, and frieze and crystallographic groups. Hugh Blackmer, blackmer.h@wlu.edu (Science Librarian) Development of a web-based map server site which will emphasize interdisciplinary work being done in the western central Virginia region surrounding Washington & Lee. Intended primarily as a testbed for extension of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology to Washington & Lee departments, and secondarily as a demonstration of the broad utility of mapping for regional research. GIS capability will be provided by ArcView software. Project Home Page: http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/giswork/ Claudia
Ferman, cferman@richmond.edu (Spanish) This project (conducted jointly with Andrew Ross) is intended to create a keyword-searchable database of Microsoft PowerPoint slides on Mayan culture, both modern and ancient. This database will provide instructors and students with an accessible medium that incorporates both resources (data) and medium (PowerPoint template) to create instructional materials for presentations, exercises, exams, etc. The PowerPoint slide template themselves will offer integrated images and text which the instructor/student can modify within a local PowerPoint application to produce course specific content and language. Claudia Ferman's Home Page: http://www.richmond.edu/~cferman/ Gary
Lindquester, glindquester@rhodes.edu (Biology) This project will provide students of molecular biology with a website containing text, figures and animations to supplement lectures and laboratories. It will also contain links to significant resources and additional information on the internet. Gary Lindquester's Home Page: http://glindquester.biology.rhodes.edu Andrew
Ross, aross@richmond.edu (Modern Languages) This project (conducted jointly with Claudia Ferman) is intended to create a keyword-searchable database of Microsoft PowerPoint slides on Mayan culture, both modem and ancient (The Maya World -SMD). The database will provide instructors and students with a Web-based structure that incorporates both resources (data) and secondary (local) medium (a PowerPoint template) to create instructional materials for presentations, exercises, exams, etc. The Maya World - SMD will reside on a server at the University of Richmond, and will employ a CGI script for multiple keyword searches. The PowerPoint files themselves will download via ftp from links on CGI-returned HTML pages. The phase of the project for which I am directly responsible involves production and testing of the CGI script and database structure, its installation on a local server, creation of thumbnail images of the PowerPoint slides, creation of HTML return page templates and organization and maintenance of the database structure once it is installed on the server. Andrew Ross' Home Page: http://www.richmond.edu/~lang/faculty/aross/ Therese
Shelton, shelton@southwestern.edu (Mathematics and Computer Science) The project involves the development of technological modules for use in Calculus using the Calculator Based Laboratory System (CBL), TI-85 Graphing Calculator, Mathematica, and Excel. Project results will be disseminated to other ACS institutions through three means: the ACS "Technology and Calculus Pedagogy" Workshops, a web page (see URL below), and through professional meetings. Benefits of portions of the modules include: adaptability to other courses and technology platforms, low cost, physical portability, active involvement of students, and consistency with Calculus Reform ideals. Therese Shelton's Home Page: http://www.southwestern.edu/~shelton Todd
Will, towill@davidson.edu (Mathematics) The goal of this project is to prepare a web based introduction to the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) suitable for inclusion in any standard introductory linear algebra course. I envision the introduction as three lessons on the following topics followed by several exciting applications.
Todd Will's Home Page: http://www.davidson.edu/academic/math/will/todd.html
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