GTA@itc!
- 2003 grant recipients
Kelly Price-Rankin
GTA, Consumer Services Management
Department College of Education, Health and Human Sciences
Module Title:
International Retailing: Virtual Visits
The component to be developed will be a useful addition to Retail and Consumer
Sciences 421, International Retailing through the use of information technology.
The component will include three vital activities. These activities include:
- accessing primary data in the field of international
retailing via international newspapers, email interviews
and virtual store visits,
- investigating and analyzing international retailing
trends and current events,
- utilizing software to enhance international translations.
This component is designed to provide activities which enable
students to access, analyze, and categorize primary data
sources in the field of International Retailing. Students
will receive data sources provided by the instructor. These
sources will include access to all major newsprint media
in the world. In addition, students will receive e-mail information
which will allow them to contact major International Retailing
journals and eminent authors in the field. Finally, students
will be given relevant websites where they may make virtual
store visits to major international retail establishments.
Students will also gain skills in the use of translation
software in order to use pertinent information accessed.
Students will use the primary source data to analyze International
Retailing trends and current events in the field. Activities
may include class presentations, group reports, statistical
data analysis, and other activities as required by the instructor.
Formative and summative evaluation will be provided.
Alla Kushniryk
GA, Speech Communication
Department College of Communication and Information
Module Title:
Speech Communication 440 - Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis
This is a new course within the Department of Speech Communication. It is
intended to provide junior and senior students with a sound, basic coverage
of most of the topics dealing with Sociology of Language and Methods of
Language Analyses. The course is designed to teach students to be not only
good language users but also critical thinkers, and to help them analyze
written and spoken discourse. One of the requirements of the course is online
exercises on discourse analysis.
To view the Call For Proposal for the 2003 GTA@itc! grant
click the link below:
GTA@itc! - Call For Proposal
GTA@itc! - 2003 Invitation to Propose:
The Innovative Technology Center invites applications from Graduate Teaching Assistants or Associates interested
in expanding their teaching practice by redesigning a course or course
component for Web-based delivery. We encourage applicants who are interested
in reworking the content of a course for delivery in Online@UT.
Award:
If selected, you will receive an award of $500 to be used for
travel and/or professional development purposes. Monies will
be distributed through your department. You will be paired with an ITC
Graduate Student
Assistant mentor to assist you in the redesign and development
of your course component for online delivery. Course must be taught during
Summer
or Fall 2003.
Eligibility:
You must be a Graduate Teaching Assistant or Associate within
an academic department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Although
you may be supervised by a professor, department head and/or course
advisor, you must have sole responsibility for teaching a class in order
to apply. Preference will be given to GTAs teaching multi-section classes.
If you are chosen as a grant recipient, you must be willing to
attend a 4-hour workshop at the Innovative Technology Center. The
time and date for the workshop will be determined
based on grant recipients' schedules.
Assessment:
If you are selected as a grant recipient, your responsibilities
include:
- Submitting your reflections on the redesign process to ITC Graduate
Assistant mentors once a month. Reflections are due:
October 18, November 22, December 13, 2003.
- Designing and implementing a student assessment of your new course or course
component/s
- Writing a final reflection submitted no later than Monday, April 28,
2003.
This should cover the process and results of implementing the redesigned
course or course component.
Submitting Your Proposals:
Please submit your proposal as either a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF
file attached to an email. Send your proposal to GTA@itc.utk.edu.
The deadline for submission is Friday, September 6, 2003 at 5:00pm
EST.
If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity please contact
Christina Goode ( cgoode@utk.edu) or Harriette Spiegel ( hspiegel@itc.utk.edu)
at 974-9670.
Proposal Guidelines:
- Cover Page
To include the following information:
- Project title
- Your name and title
- Your Phone Number
- Your Email
- Your UT Campus and Mail Address, Phone Number and Email
- Your College and Department
- The name, email, and address of your Department Head
- The name, email, and address of the IRIS Representative of your Department
- Abstract
Provide a one-paragraph summary of the course or course component/s to be developed.
- Narrative
A narrative (maximum 3 single or double-spaced pages) that includes the following
information:
- Course Need: Discuss why the proposed course or course component is needed,
how placing your content online will enhance student learning.
- Course Description: Describe the course or course component in detail,
including the intended content.
- Project Schedule: Provide a timeline listing the major tasks for this
component with anticipated completion dates for each task. Think of this
timeline as including the following phases:
- Phase I: Initial meeting with ITC Graduate Assistant mentor to discuss
the process of reworking course content for delivery in an online environment.
- Phase II: Meeting with ITC Graduate Student Assistant mentors and
other grant recipients to discuss pros and cons of progress to date; share
with group what has been accomplished; ITC mentors to introduce online
evaluation methods.
- Phase III: Analysis of process; show completed course or course component.
- Statement of Institutional Support
A brief statement of support from your department head or course advisor will
need to be submitted with the proposal.
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