Video Development Has Broader Impact
One of the goals of the Faculty Innovation in Teaching program is to research and develop new technologies for teaching and learning. Over the years, the innovation team has implemented and adapted many technologies in new ways. There is a wider benefit to other campus projects, in that many of the technologies that were developed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]