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gta@itc! - 2007 grant recipients
Ms. Yan Cao
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Instructional Technology, Health and Cultural Studies
College of Education, Health and Human Sciences
Fall 2007
“Utilizing Blackboard in CSE 400”
CSE 400 Professional Studies: Teachers, Schools, and Society is a required course in the teacher education program. It is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary course to help prospective teachers access various educational philosophies, ideologies, and viewpoints, especially as they relate to social concerns. Such concerns include changing values, social and economic class differences, multicultural education, equity, and mainstreaming. In using Blackboard to deliver the course content, I will use the various features to help students acquire key themes and accomplish major tasks for the semester. The Blackboard interface provides a non-threatening environment for student exchange of academic ideas and an opportunity to develop friendships with other students, while enabling timely communication.
Qingjian Chen
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies
College of Education, Health and Human Sciences
Fall 2007
“Utilizing online technology to facilitate knowledge sharing and discussion in Physical Fitness Walking 231”
A main objective of Physical Fitness Walking 231 is to provide an opportunity for sedentary persons to begin an appropriate exercise program. Such a program would evaluate and improve cardio-respiratory fitness, body composition, and low back strength, increasing the student’s understanding of the role of physical activity, nutrition, and weight control in a healthy lifestyle. The use of Blackboard to facilitate the teaching of Physical Fitness Walking 231 will allow students to investigate, analyze and discuss the theory of physical fitness and walking, as well as to examine how those exercises apply to daily life. Through Blackboard, students will be able to build on information from in-class lectures and exercises, and share knowledge from each other. A discussion board forum will also allow students to equally participate and freely voice their thoughts while analyzing the issues presented in class and also for the project assigned in class.
To view the Spring Call For Proposal for the Fall 2007 GTA@itc!
grant click the
link below:
GTA@itc! - Call For Proposal
GTA@itc! Grant Spring 2007
Invitation to Propose:
The Innovative Technology Center invites applications twice a year (Fall and Spring) 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 as extra service pay. 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 Spring, 2007.
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.
If you are chosen as a grant recipient, you must be willing to attend a 4-hour workshop at the Innovative Technology Center during the month of October. 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 your ITC Graduate Assistant mentor once a month. Reflections are due:
March 15, April 15, May 15, 2007
- Designing and implementing a student assessment of your new course or course component/s
- Writing a final reflection submitted no later than Friday, December 14, 2007. This should cover the process and results of implementing the redesigned course or course component, and a description of the student assessment and its results.
Submitting Your Proposals:
Please submit your proposal as either a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file attached to an e-mail. Send your proposal to GTA@itc.utk.edu. The deadline for submission is Friday, February 2, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Award recipients will receive e-mail notification on Friday, February 9, 2007.
If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity please contact Dr. Christina Goode (cgoode@utk.edu) or Harriette L. Spiegel (hspiegel@itc.utk.edu) at 974-9670.
Proposal Guidelines:
- Cover Page to include the following information:
- Project title
- Course taught
- Your name, title, phone number, e-mail, and UT campus address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your college and department, including the department account number
- Your Dean: name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your Department Head: name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your Department IRIS Approver: Name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- 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, and 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. This statement should verify that you have sole responsibility for teaching the course.
M. Justin Davis
Graduate Teaching Associate
School of Communication Studies
College of Communication and Information
Spring 2007
Students who participate in internship seminars at the University of
Tennessee face a difficult situation because organizations are increasingly
becoming decentralized. This proposal seeks to develop and pilot a component
for the School of Communication Studies Internship Program that enables UT
students participating in internships both within and outside of the
Knoxville area to use Internet technology to keep a “virtual portfolio”of
their course assignments. This component is designed to: 1) complement
and inform the seminar's required bi-weekly meetings, and 2) further
facilitate students attainment of employment following their graduation.
Casie Fedukovich
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences
Spring 2007
My English 102 class, “Angry Bodies, Digital Bodies: The Construction of
Identity through Culture,” uses the internet as a source of both primary and
secondary scholarly research and also as a lens through which we survey
digital culture. As a part of our survey of digital culture(s), we will
explore digital vernaculars, the process of digitizing bodies (as through
blogs and podcasts), the fracturing of this mainstream digital culture into
subcultures, and promotion of art and literacy using electronic means. I
seek to incorporate more technology into my English classroom considering the
disenfranchisement of the Appalachian student on the “egalitarian” digital
playing field. I am also looking to explore strategies to promote the
writing process-from invention to revision to publication-using technology.
To view the Fall Call For Proposal for the Spring 2007 GTA@itc!
grant click the
link below:
GTA@itc! - Spring 2007 Call For Proposal
GTA@itc! Grant Spring 2007
Invitation to Propose:
The Innovative Technology Center invites applications twice a year (Fall and Spring) 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 as extra service pay. 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 Spring, 2007.
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.
If you are chosen as a grant recipient, you must be willing to attend a 4-hour workshop at the Innovative Technology Center during the month of October. 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 your ITC Graduate Assistant mentor once a month. Reflections are due:
October 15, November 15, December 15, 2006
- Designing and implementing a student assessment of your new course or course component/s
- Writing a final reflection submitted no later than Friday, May 4, 2007. This should cover the process and results of implementing the redesigned course or course component, and a description of the student assessment and its results.
Submitting Your Proposals:
Please submit your proposal as either a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file attached to an e-mail. Send your proposal to GTA@itc.utk.edu. The deadline for submission is Friday, September 15, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Award recipients will receive e-mail notification on Friday, September 22, 2006.
If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity please contact Dr. Christina Goode (cgoode@utk.edu) or Harriette L. Spiegel (hspiegel@itc.utk.edu) at 974-9670.
Proposal Guidelines:
- Cover Page to include the following information:
- Project title
- Course taught
- Your name, title, phone number, e-mail, and UT campus address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your college and department, including the department account number
- Your Dean: name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your Department Head: name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- Your Department IRIS Approver: Name, phone, and address with four-digit campus zip number
- 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, and 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. This statement should verify that you have sole responsibility for teaching the course.
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