2001 Innovations in Instructional Computing Awards
In 2001, the Council received twelve proposals to consider and awarded $84,817 to the following projects:
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DVD as Art Portfolios
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
School of Art & Art History
$25,762
D. Johnson, S. Thunder-McGuire, S. Hettmansperger, C. Roy, R. Nordman, S. Strait
Establish a DVD initiative in The School of Art & Art History to enable students to author, publish and exchange portfolios and other scholarly works on DVD-R medium. Read more... -
Language Corpora for the Teaching of French Grammar
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of French & Italian
$7,680
D. A. Thomas, L. K. Heilenman
Revise the existing 9:112 French Grammar course, putting authentic language corpora and discovery-type activities at its center. Read more... -
Iowa Dental Surgical Simulator
College of Dentistry and College of Engineering
$38,000
C. Stanford, L. Johnson, G. Thomas
Build and evaluate a surgical simulator that uses force feedback - "haptics" - to teach and assess the tactile skills of dentistry. Read more... PDAs and Pharmacy Education
College of Pharmacy
$2,000
R. Herman
Develop software for personal digital devices which will allow pharmacy students to use pharmacokinetic calculations to individualize drug therapy. Read more...-
Master Music Classes via Video Conference
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
School of Music
$11,375
K. Eberle, T. Coelho
Equip Clapp Recital Hall and Harper Hall as spaces to deliver or receive music instruction to or from other institutions using IP video conferencing. Read more...
