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GTA@itc! - SPRING 2008 grant recipients
Laura Widman
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Spring 2008
“Utilizing Blackboard in Psychology 110”
Through the Blackboard system, the proposed project, Get Psyched, in Introductory Psychology (Psychology 110) will provide students with an opportunity to post examples and questions about the concepts we discuss in class, including issues of multicultural diversity, prejudice, human development, and psychological problems. Students will be allowed to read, question, and comment on the postings of their classmates, creating an interactive opportunity that is often difficult in large lecture courses. In this way, students will be encouraged to actively engage with the course material by thinking and writing about it outside of class and they will also have opportunity to learn from the insights and experiences of their classmates in an interactive, online environment.
Andrea Meltzer
Graduate Teaching Associate
Spring 2008
“Psychology Online: An Exam Review (Psych Review)”
At the University of Tennessee, Psychology 110 is a course that fulfills a General Education core requirement for incoming freshmen. Class enrollment consists of over 2200 students in 9 sections of around 250 students per section taught by a GTA. The auditoriums allow little group collaboration and peer interaction. This project will allow students to participate in small group exam review sessions in a chat room format via Blackboard. Psychology is a course in which the vast array of topics and ideas can easily overwhelm students. The online forum, created by PsychReview, would allow students to come together in groups and help one another learn and understand the material in depth, in an active, collaborative, learning environment. The Internet is an ideal location for sharing ideas and expanding knowledge, particularly when it comes to comprehending course content.
Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz
Graduate Teaching Associate
Spring 2008
“Improving Aural Comprehension in Spanish Through Realia-Based Content”
Spanish 305 is a course designed for students interested in improving their communicative skills in Spanish. This project will encourage students to communicate, and students will have the opportunity to improve their aural comprehension skills through multi-media, collaboration and group-based tools accessed through Online@UT. Through multimedia tools in Blackboard, including the Pronto and Wimba Voice Boards, and realia-based content, students will get more exposure to the target language.
To view the Fall Call For Proposal for the Spring 2008 GTA@itc! grant click the
link below:
GTA@itc! - Fall Call for Proposal for Spring 2008
GTA@itc! Grant Spring 2008
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, 2008.
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, 2007
- Designing and implementing a student assessment of your new course or course component/s
- Writing a final reflection submitted no later than Friday, May 2, 2008. 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 7, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Award recipients will receive e-mail notification on Friday, September 14, 2007.
If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity please contact Dr. Christina Goode ( cgoode@utk.edu) or Harriette L. Spiegel ( hspiegel@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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