2008 Faculty Summer Workshop Participants
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Ervine Briones Psychology Enhanced an existing Blackboard course with streaming Camtasia videos and created a personal Web site that includes his vitae and most recent publications. |
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Mohammad Obadat Engineering Updated and expanded his course Web site to include new features of upcoming courses and to keep students updated about changes to the curriculum. |
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Phil Davis Chemistry Prepared and updated chemistry lab instructional videos for distribution through UTM's iTunesU site. |
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Bob Peckham French Designed tutorial strategies for Spanish language students, using alternative topic presentation, interactive written activities, mouse-over audio output vocabulary, video, text-to-speech applications and Wimba voice tools. |
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Kurt Gorman Music Researched advanced features of Finale, and used it to transcribe some pieces for his trumpet students. |
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John Schommer Mathematics Created a course Web page that includes streaming audio and video content produced with Camtasia. |
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Leslie LaChance English Created a Blackboard course to house English Department resources that adjunct professors often cannot access. This course will provide these resources to adjuncts and remote English faculty who work at UT Martin's satellite campuses. |
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Amy Simmons Music Converted her woodwind studio Web site to the UT Martin template and updated its content. Developed a monthly newsletter template to be used for student updates during the school year. |
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Lihong Li Physics Updated existing Blackboard course content to include audio and video created with Camtasia and Adobe Acrobat Connect. |
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Mark Simmons Music Updated his Web site's graphics and captured/edited video footage to create a DVD of his student's 2008 Choir Tour of the Western U.S. |
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Norm Lillegard History and Philosophy Created Blackboard content for an upcoming online course. Also used Powerpoint and Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) to create Web based mulitmedia presentations. |
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Philip Smartt Agriculture and Natural Resources Conducted online testing with new micro-notebooks that his department plans to adopt for future use. |
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Carmen Lopez Spanish Created course content in Blackboard. Used Wimba Voice Tools to enhance online course instruction. |
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Gwendolyn Tomlin Education Updated and enhanced course content in Blackboard. Created a Web site that includes information about courses taught as well as information regarding her dissertation. |
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Jorge Lopez Spanish Created course content in Blackboard. Used Wimba Voice Tools to enhance online course instruction for his Medieval Spanish course. |
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Jenna Wright English Explored what peer universities are doing with online support for creative writing programs, created a Blackboard component for her class, and worked on developing a list of Web sites to supplement English 310: Fiction Workshop. |
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Yelena Meadows Mathematics Developed a Web site to supplement classroom instruction, which includes practice tests with solutions. |
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