FDIP 2008 Grant Recipients
The following faculty received grant awards from the Faculty Development Initiative Program for Fiscal Year 2008.
Track A Recipients
Russell Geanangel - NSM CHEMISTRY ($3800)
This grant was funded to establish an on-line help room (OLHR) to first semester chemistry students. We intend to establish a weekly schedule for the OLHR on the syllabus and on WebCT during Fall 2008 and spring 2009. We plan to compare class performance for 2008/09 sections with OLHR to previous years results without OLHR to determine whether there are statistically significant differences.
Carole Goodson - TECHNOLOGY HDCS ($4000)
Instructional Support Services is a unique lab that provides support for both students and faculty. Among the types of support is face-to-face tutoring for students. The goal of the project is to provide live tutoring for all students, using Wimba Live Classroom tool.
Elizabeth Rigby - CLASS POLITICAL SCIENCE ($3500)
This project restructures Introduction to Public Policy to encourage students development of higher-order analytical skills. The use of technology includes digital case studies, addressing current policy issues and use of Grademark software to provide students with richer descriptions of policy issues for analysis.
Raul Ramos - CLASS HISTORY ($3500)
This project seeks to develop new teaching methods available through current technology to students, this will primarily be accomplished by setting up blogs for students to explore. The principal investigator will use grant resources to create a pedagogic structure to set up the blogs.
Rex Koontz - CLASS ART ($2190)
During the course of this project a set of half hour pod casts on a set of classic texts in the field will be created. These pod casts will be incorporated throughout the undergraduate curriculum as students can develop their own research and writing projects.
Lois Zamora - CLASS ENGLISH AND HISTORY ($4000)
Funds for this project will be used to create an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate course. Funding will be used to pay a translator to translate several important essays and interviews from Spanish to English. Having these essays and interviews posted on my online site in both Spanish and English will facilitate the interdisciplinary and cross-curricular nature of this course.
Sharon Wen CLASS MCL ($4,000)
The project will create videos, assessment methods, and a database for a Chinese language course, to promote easy accessibility to students. The materials and formats will be interactive in nature, thus encouraging students participation and training their communicative skills and oral proficiency.
Kathleen Brosnan CLASS HISTORY ($3600)
This project will allow for the creation of a database of multimedia resources that will be integrated into lectures. Additionally this project will utilize GIS to create maps for specific lectures as well as geographic quizzes in the course. It will give beginning students a greater sense of the change over time and from place to place that is essence of historical study.
Carl Scott BAUER DISC ($4000)
This project offers to create an active and authentic learning experience for students using the virtual world of Second Life. The students will engage with coursework, and interact with their peers and instructor inside the Second Life virtual classroom.
Lynn Voskuil CLASS ENGLISH ($4000)
The aim of the project is to design and develop interlocking blogs and other electronic materials in order to address certain problems that could not be fully resolved with traditional classroom methods. The immediate goal of the project is to address certain struggles the students have experienced in the past and thus reaching more student
Manuel Gutierrez CLASS HISPANIC STUDIES ($4000)
The project goal is to adapt and create electronic materials to a WebCT component. Particular focus will be on creating exercises that will illustrate and help students practice a variety of evolution rules from Latin to Spanish
Lori Whisenant BAUER MANAGEMENT ($4000)
The proposal offers to improve student learning by creating an interactive online lecture imbedded with quizzes throughout the lecture. This will allow students to test their understanding of the laws previously studied.
Tracy Karner CLASS SOCIOLOGY ($4000)
FDIP funds will be used to develop online visual resources to enhance Visual Sociology courses and to utilize UH technology resources in designing more dynamic class exercises and student assignments.
Abigail Hubbard BAUER MANAGEMENT ($4000)
Mobile education is becoming more prevalent and more important, to achieve best delivery system we need to maximize graphics and visual enhancements to courses on devices that are ever smaller, posing unique challenges. The goal of this project is to learn the best way to design or import and deliver graphics compatible with today’s mobile devices and platforms.
Margaret Cheung NSM PHYSICS ($4000)
Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) is a new and efficient method that integrates active learning with world-wide-web technology. Each student is assigned randomized initial parameters for their post-class puzzle problems so that the chance of plagiarism can be reduced. This helps build student confidence and let them be responsible for their own learning.
Track B Recipients
Zhigang Deng - NSM Computer Science ($25,000)
This project is to build a cyber-enabled interactive system for collaborative project learning which utilizes and integrates the cutting edge dynamic web content management technologies. The system will maintain a wiki-like course project knowledge base that instructors and all the students can browse, share, and edit.
Ali Kamrani - Engineering Industrial Engineering ($24,832)
This project is developing a structure for an internet-based module for virtual integrated design and prototyping of mechanical components. Students will learn how to simulate their design in an integrated environment and how to improve the total system performance.
Eric Bittner - NSM Chemistry ($25,000)
This project is to create a web-based front-end/server to allow students to set-up and submit calculations. Then they can visualize and analyze the results once completed. Graduate and undergraduate students can use this server.
Xin Ding - Technology ITL ($25,000)
This project will integrate video technology in teaching technology leadership classes. Students in this program will create high quality videos which can be used to build a media library for instructional purposes.
Consuelo Waight - Technology HDCS ($25,000)
This project focuses on the design and development of three courses that facilitate a specialization in organization development. Learning will be facilitated through the use of pod casts, audio-text case studies, storytelling, streaming videos, and audio lectures.
Brian McFarlin - Education HHP ($25,000)
This project will modify two HHP courses by using the Second Life virtual world as an alternative of using WebCT.
Jennifer Chauvot - Education CUIN ($24,175)
This project redesigns the content and content delivery of an existing face-to-face mathematics education graduate level core course. It also aims to study the impact of course experience on mathematics teachers by using the multimedia technology such as digital audio and video.
Gino Lim - Engineering Industrial Engineering ( $25,000)
This project proposes to develop four online undergraduate courses for a new Bachelor of Science program in Engineering management (BSEM) in Industrial Engineering (IE) department.
Santiago Perez - Architecture($25,000)
This project will use funds to develop a series of courses on advanced rapid prototyping and fabrication that can be delivered electronically.
Sam Hanlon - Optometry Clinical Science ($25,000)
This project is being funded to develop a computer-based vision laboratory for learning through doing instruction of key psychophysical experiments. A wiki-like repository (WLR) will be created to share collected data and to provide a platform for students to upload reports and analysis for collaborative editing.
Gangbing Song - Engineering Mechanical Engineering ($25,000)
Funding for this project will be used to integrate already developed sets of multi-purpose Labs-To-Go kits with ten different experiments into seven engineering courses. It will improve the learning experience of students in multiple departments.
TRR Recipient
Charles Layne - Education HHP ($30,000)
This project will create a 3-D platform of second life and use it to develop a thriving digital community of Health and Human Performance majors. This project will determine if participation in the community is associated with academic persistence and retention.
If you have any questions about this program, please contact Dr. Marshall Schott at (832) 842-4664 mschott@uh.edu or Tammy Hoskings (832) 842-2141 thoskings@uh.edu.