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	<description>Updates about projects, events, and innovative instructional technologies.</description>
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		<title>Video Development Has Broader Impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/09/25/video-development-has-broader-impact/</link>
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		<title>Project Cycles Beginning &amp; Ending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another cycle of Innovation in Teaching projects have been completed, and the new project cycle has begun development.
A faculty comment about the program&#8230;
&#8220;The whole experience was great and the impact long lived. We can expose students to material they would get no other way in lecture.&#8221;
In the past year, projects focused on using collaborative tools, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/06/19/project-cycles-beginning-ending/</link>
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		<title>April 2 Proposal Deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 8th Call for Proposals for the Faculty Innovation in Teaching program is now closed.
Project selections will be announced at the end of April 2009.
Questions? Send an email to innovprojects@cornell.edu
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		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/04/02/april-2-proposal-deadline/</link>
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		<title>FIT Program Supports Avon Global Center for Women and Justice Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faculty Innovation in Teaching projects often overlap or partner with other programs on campus. An example of this is the web site that was developed and supported for the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, as part of a current project.
Recently, this program has been featured in the news &#8212; since the Avon Global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/03/05/fit-program-supports-avon-global-center-for-women-and-justice-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the 8th Call for Proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/26/announcing-the-8th-call-for-proposals/</link>
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		<title>Enhancing Introductory Physics Digitally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; while maintaining interactivity with learners &#8211; is especially challenging. Professor Matthias Liepe addressed these difficulties by enhancing the learning experience through the use of technology. This included in-class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/23/enhancing-introductory-physics-digitally/</link>
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		<title>Comparing Words Between Documents &#8211; Wordle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/23/comparing-words-between-documents-wordle/</link>
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		<title>Virtual Field Trips &#8211; New Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recently published journal article in Computers &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/16/virtual-field-trips-new-article/</link>
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		<title>Digital Video for Studying 2-D Mechanics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/13/digital-video-for-studying-2-d-mechanics/</link>
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		<title>Adobe PDF Packages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.cornell.edu/innovation/2009/02/12/adobe-pdf-packages/</link>
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