Nancy Cheng, Architecture
Topic:"Visual Thinking with Digital Sketches"
Sponsoring IT Unit: Wired Humanities Project,
Judith Musick, Director

To help design students describe, interpret, and shape visual ideas, Nancy Cheng has been collecting animated sketches using the Anoto digital pen-and-paper system. The animated drawings offer a stroke-by-stroke view of how designers think. By interactively viewing the animations, students can study how experts approach tasks such as space planning or façade design.

Cheng will work with the Wired Humanities Project group to make the drawings accessible through a Web database and develop prototypical classroom lessons.

Suzanne Clark's project will help UO students connect the rhetorical processes of inquiry, interpretation, and argument to the rich research guides and technologies librarians have developed over the last few years. It will be tested for use in sections of Writing 123, The Research Paper, and in other writing programs at the university. Staff members in the UO Libraries' Metadata and Digital Library Services will consult with Clark on the research uses of several recently developed online tools, including Scholars' Bank, an institutional repository for the intellectual output of the university.

Kevin Hatfield, Central Oregon Programs
Topic: "Teaching History at a Distance through IP Video Broadcasts"
Sponsoring IT Unit: Media Services,
Tom Matney, Director

Kevin Hatfield is developing a curriculum for students earning a history minor at the Bend campus. His project will include the redesign of history courses for a broadcast format and development of archived material for video-on-demand delivery, with the goal of developing broadcast courses that retain the interpersonal advantages of on-site delivery while incorporating hybrid elements that enhance student learning. He will also share his expertise in broadcast pedagogy with other UO faculty members through mentoring and collaboration. Media Services, housed at the UO Libraries, will provide assistance in meeting broadcast-quality delivery standards.

Mark Horney, Educational Studies
Topic: "Supporting the College of Education Faculty"
Sponsoring IT Unit: Center for Educational Technologies,
JQ Johnson, Director

Mark Horney teaches IT courses in the Teacher Education Area and provides IT training for many adjunct and regular College of Education faculty. His project will concentrate on using IT resources to train and support education instructors, especially in the advanced use of Blackboard, the university's course management system. An immediate focus will be on developing learning objects to train instructors to create and post their own video material on Blackboard. A second area of concentration will be the creation of several online courses, along with the development of computer-mediated techniques for mentoring and discussion group activities. The Center for Educational Technologies will provide staff consultation and software and hardware support.

Kartz Ucci, Art
Topic: "Teaching Visual Literacy: Improved Skills for Students and Faculty"
Sponsoring IT Units: Center for Educational Technologies, JQ Johnson, Director; Teaching Effectiveness Program, Georgeanne Cooper, Director

Kartz Ucci will use her fellowship to integrate digital art content into a series of courses, workshops, and online teaching models that will increase learning opportunities and elevate visual literacy skills among students and faculty members. Ucci will create online components for digital art courses and seamlessly integrate them into Blackboard's interface. Overall, she plans to develop a course model that combines classroom teaching and online elements that can be used in large format introductory and foundation courses at the UO. Ucci will collaborate with the Center for Educational Technologies and the Teaching Effectiveness Program to develop workshops on creating and using media-rich tools for learning and instruction.

Catherine Wiebe, Romance Languages
Topic: "Building Better Tools for Language Instruction"
Sponsoring IT Unit: Yamada Language Center, Jeff Magoto, Director

Catherine Wiebe oversees curriculum development for French courses taught to more than 250 UO students each term. She will use her fellowship to redesign elements of the second-year French program to include dynamic online instructional components for form (listening, reading, speaking) and content (grammar, vocabulary). The resulting hybrid-style course will allow students to supplement three hours of classroom instruction each week with one hour of interactive, online instruction. Wiebe will develop instructional templates and build video and audio databases for online delivery of the language instruction material. Yamada Language Center staff will supply technological expertise, logistical support, and hardware and software consultation.