2004 Innovations in Instructional Computing Awards
In 2004, the Council received 18 proposals to consider and awarded $100,750 to the following projects:
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Pictures and Pedagogy: Digital Technology for the Study of a Unique University Art Collection
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Art & Art History
$10,500
Dorothy Johnson
Make the thousands of works of American art produced at the School of Art and Art History available for instruction through a web application that combines the relevant data describing the works along with digital images of the objects in the collection. Read more... -
Multimedia Content Management at the University of Iowa Libraries
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Mathematics
$24,000
Keith Stroyan
Develop a web site to support a full spectrum of multivariable or vector calculus courses. Read more... -
Digitizing 35mm slides for introductory Geoscience courses
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Geoscience
$12,000
Richard G. Baker
Scanning/digitizing an extensive and unique collection of over 3000+ slides for use in instruction and widely available over the web. Read more... -
ObjectMover Authoring Tool for Foreign Language Learning
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of German and Language Media Center
$10,000
James P. Pusack
Sue K. Otto
Create a flexible authoring tool, ObjectMover, that will allow instructors to create visually stimulating interactions that learners can use to capture essential components of a web-based text or a streaming video. Read more... -
A computer lab that is also a super-computing cluster for students
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Chemistry
$29,500
Claudio Margulis
Jeffrey Miller
Develop a functional computational cluster out of a lab of computers to harness off-use, idle cycle time so that it doubles as a super-computing cluster and a lab. Read more... -
An Online Virtual Library as an Emergency Department Bedside Teaching Adjunct and Learning Resource
College of Medicine
Emergency Medicine
$4,750
Christopher Russi
Hans House
Pooneh Hendi
Develop an educational adjunct for bedside teaching and patient care in the emergency department and construct an educational library repository to store lectures, medical literature and streamed video of visiting professors and procedural skills necessary for emergency medicine. Read more... -
Information Retrieval for Business online course
University of Iowa Libraries
College of Business
$10,000
J. David Martin
Laura Leavitt
Create an online version of a currently enrolled class, 6B:050, Information Retrieval for Business. Read more...
