Announcing the 8th Call for Proposals
Announcing the 8th Call for Proposals for the Faculty Innovation in Teaching program.
Proposal information and the on-line application form is on the web at: http://innovation.cornell.edu/apply.html
The deadline for proposals is Thursday April 2, 2009
Program information sessions will be held on:
Wednesday March 4 at 3 pm and Thursday March 12 at 3 pm in room G27 Stimson [...]
Enhancing Introductory Physics Digitally
The Fundamentals of Physics course Phys207 introduces non-physics students to the often unfamiliar world of physics. In a class with 300 students, effectively presenting new material – while maintaining interactivity with learners – is especially challenging. Professor Matthias Liepe addressed these difficulties by enhancing the learning experience through the use of technology. This included in-class [...]
Comparing Words Between Documents – Wordle
Another identified technology in a faculty project that has interesting uses for teaching is wordle.
A “wordle” is a word cloud or a word collage that you make on the web site http://www.wordle.net/ The more often a word is used in a given block of text, the larger it appears in the cloud of words. You [...]
Virtual Field Trips – New Article
In a recently published journal article in Computers & Equation about a 2004 Faculty Innovation in Teaching (FIT) project, the benefit of developing virtual fields trips is discussed.
“In deciding what kind of learning to target in a VFT, one has to be realistic. Clearly VFTs cannot provide the physical perception that one has in the [...]
Digital Video for Studying 2-D Mechanics
This Innovation in Teaching project (2007) was developed by Philip Krasicky and Erich Mueller to address the challenge of how to illustrate two-dimensional motion of objects. This project developed a computer-based digital video capture and analysis system for a series of laboratory experiments in which students recorded and analyzed the two-dimensional motion of objects. The [...]
Adobe PDF Packages
One aspect of the Faculty Innovation in Teaching program is the technology research that is conducted as part of faculty projects. Often the technology research and identified solutions are applicable for many instructional uses.
An example of this is “Adobe PDF Packages” which use the Adobe PDF software in a new way. PDF packages make it [...]
“Beyond the Taj” photos, here at Cornell and via ArtStor.org
Bonnie MacDougall (2006 Faculty Innovation in Teaching awardee) and her late husband, Robert MacDonald, traveled, researched, photographed, and collected materials from South Asia over many years. 7000 of their images are available online through Cornell University Library (http://beyondthetaj.library.cornell.edu/index.php) and soon as part of the ARTstor digital library (http://www.artstor.org/).
This week’s Cornell Chronicle has a short article [...]