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Tom Wangler has developed a Survivor's Guide to Derive In Multivariable Calculus. The Table of Contents is available here. For additional information, contact Tom (twangler@ben.edu)

Jon Lewis, Title III Director, collaborated with several faculty to produce a series of online geography modules. See a sample video clip used in the modules here. See Newsletter #12 for a description of the geography project.

Benedictine University is a participant in a Title II partnership grant that also includes five school districts, the DuPage regional office of Education, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The project goal is to stimulate or accelerate the improvement of K-8th student interest/achievement in mathematics and science by enhancing the content knowledge and teaching skills of K-8th grade classroom teachers. Eileen Clark, Title III Professional Development Coordinator, developed a Flash based Wheel of Inquiry for use in a grant-sponsored workshop attended by K-8th teachers.

Joan Hopkins has developed a "Virtual" Library Club and a Library Virtual Tour, which are both accessible from the Benedictine Library home page. Of particular interest is the Book Chat Follow-up component of the "Virtual" Library Club, which contains video clips of the recent live session. Sharon Nelson used equipment in the Multimedia Room to produce the videos. (See Newsletter #8 to learn about the Multimedia Room.)

Vince Gaddis has developed the PowerPoint presentation This is Vietnam. (2.4MB)

Jon Lewis, Title III Director, has used Lectora to develop websites to support his HUMN 250 - The Contemporary World course, and to chronicle the activities and services sponsored by the Environmental Committee.

Al Martin is developing Sounds of the Reformation, a PowerPoint presentation with embedded audio files. We recently became aware of Impatica for PowerPoint, a software tool that compresses Power Point presentations for delivery over the web. We've used Al's presentation to test Impatica. As you view the Impatica file, use the buttons at the bottom to advance through the slides. Music will play automatically when you reach a slide with embedded audio - you may have to increase the volume. The first slide with audio is number 6.

Wayne Wesolowski and Peter Tsong developed several Tegrity presentations. (See Newsletter #9 for a description of Tegrity, and for links to early projects.) Wayne was supported under Title III to develop pre-lab experiences for his general chemistry students. The goal of the project was to produce Tegrity presentations that demonstrate basic lab techniques, and require students to view the presentations and then pass a related quiz before coming to lab. Links to five of the Tegrity presentations are available here.

Fifteen faculty attended week-long technology workshops in January, 2003. Participants developed course materials in Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver and WebCT. A number of faculty developed home pages. These pages are in various stages of development.

Pete Nelson developed this handout for his class showing how you can use Excel to solve the differential equations for simple harmonic motion, and this spreadsheet that solves for the motion of Lennard-Jones particles in 2D.

Jean-Marie Kauth assembled this Virtual Museum of Art and Architecture in the Middle Ages.

The Title III grant proposal references Education, Communication Arts, and Nutrition as programs that plan to introduce electronic student portfolios as a graduation requirement. We have identified Lectora software as a potential tool for creating web-based portfolios. Jon Lewis used Lectora to create an out-of-class exercise for his students, which he distributes to them on CD. The final version of the exercise includes a collection of readings and questions related to those readings. Students are expected to respond to the questions from within the online environment. An early version of this very interesting exercise is available here.

Twenty-two faculty attended week-long technology workshops in May, 2002. Participants developed course materials in Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver and WebCT. Here is a sample of some of their new home pages. In many cases these pages link to a rich assortment of course materials

A variety of other projects emerged from the workshops. Tom Byrnes created a museum for his Mediterranean World course. Roger Rose developed a student project, Web Page Building for Campaigns and Elections. Tim Comar developed course materials that he will present at the Annual Joint Math Meetings. Several faculty have begun using PowerPoint in their classes. Here's a sampling of their work:

Jim Iaccino - psyc291.lec3.ppt
Shirley Moore - Nurses_in_the_Military.ppt
Clay Runk - Introduction.ppt, Mitosis.ppt
Wayne Wesolowski - Science_at_Benedictine_Ver1a.ppt (43 MB)

Six faculty were supported during the first year of our project. Those faculty are listed here along with links to their Benedictine Home Pages, an email link, and links to materials they have developed.

We are always looking for tools that might be used to develop course materials. Our investigations have produced a small Flash movie, a Spin Panorama project, and a mini-lesson using Camtasia.